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Vol.  XXXXIV 


No.  1 


OCTOBER,  1918 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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Vol.  XXXXIV  LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  OCTOBER,  1918  No.  1 

Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
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LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

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DOROTHY  HOPPER 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES  O'BRIEN 

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Local  Editors 

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Literary  Editor 
MARY  HOPKINS 

Joke  Editor 
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Assistant 
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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

Being  a  Farmerette   ;  Agnirre  Cinta  5 

Nipper Leilya  Barkman  7 

EDITORIAL 8 

LOCALS ■. 9 

WOODLAND  PARK   NOTES 11 

PERSONALS 13 

JOKES    21 

THE  SUPPLEMENT 22 

Lasell  Club    Notes 26 


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TREES 

"I  think  that  I  shall  never  see 
A  poem  so  lovely  as  a  tree, 

A  tree  whose  hungry  mouth  is  prest 
Against  the  earth's  sweet  flowing  breast  ; 

A  tree  that  looks  at  God  all  day, 
And  lifts  her  leafy  arms  to  pray ; 

A  tree  that  may  in  summer  wear 
A  nest  of  robins  in  her  hair  ; 

Upon  whose  bosom  snow  has  lain 
Who  intimately  lives  with  rain. 

Poems  are  made  by  fools  like  me 
But  only  God  can  make  a  tree." 

Joyce  Kilmer. 


BEING  A  FARMERETTE 


In  Mexico  the  idea  of  becoming  a  farmer- 
ette is  not  so  unusual  as  it  seems  to  be  in 
America. 

Two  years  ago,  attracted  by  the  idea,  a  great 
number  of  my  friends  and  I  decided  to  work 
on  a  beautiful  farm.  It  was  at  sunrise  one 
lovely  morning  in  May  that  I  went  out  into 
the  fields  with  my  leather  pocket  full  of  seeds. 
I  worked  hard  from  morning  till  late  in  the 
afternoon.  After  my  day's  work  had  been 
finished,  I  made  my  way  homeward  where  I 
found  the  other  farmerettes.     We  were  all  a 


happy  crowd,  and  especially  so  when  we 
thought  over  the  fine  day's  work  we  had  ac- 
complished. 

Every  one  of  the  different  kinds  of  work 
on  the  farm  had  its  own  attractions.  Full  of 
joy  I  helped  to  pile  the  great  heaps  of  hay  that 
were  to  remain  in  the  fields  or  else  to  be 
carried  in  the  big  carts  driven  by  oxen.  At 
such  times  I  liked  to  climb  to  the  top  of  the 
cart.  That  always  happened  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  afternoon ;  then  we  could  con- 
template the  most  wonderful  scenery, — the 
immense  fields  covered  with  verdure,  and  the 
mountains  surrounding  them  except  for  one 
side  where  there  were  two  volcanoes  covered 
with  snow.  How  magnificent  they  appear- 
ed under  the  rosy  shade  reflected  by  the  set- 
ting sun !  Two  or  three  of  us  rode  in  each 
cart  and  it  may  be  understood  that  our  gay 
songs  were  never  lacking. 

How  proud  and  happy  we  felt  when,  after 
having  worked  hard  during  the  sowing  months, 
we  gathered  an  abundant  harvest.  Our  crops 
consisted  of  corn,  barley  and  the  various  vege- 
tables and  fruits,  including  two  products  pe- 
culiar to  our  country,  nopal  and  chayote.  The 
nopal  has  some  resemblance  to  the  prickly 
pear  and  does  not  need  much  cultivation ;  the 
chayote,  also,  is  a  pear-shaped  fruit  with  a 
prickly  skin,  but  it  grows  on  a  vine. 

There  are  many  other  duties  included  in  a 
farmerette's  life,  for  instance,  feeding  the 
chickens,  ducks,  rabbits  and  other  domestic 
animals. 

To  my  care  was  also  intrusted  the  planning 


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and  planting  of  a  lovely  formal  flower  garden, 
the  entrance  to  which  was  at  the  eastern  side. 
At  the  western  end  were  some  steps  leading  to 
an  orchard.  In  one  of  the  corners  was  a  beau- 
tiful rustic  arbor  over  which  were  spread  rose- 
vines  of  all  sorts.  From  each  entrance  extended 
a  little  pathway  of  palms.  On  the  opposite  side 
of  the  arbor  was  the  chapel,  surrounded  by  a 
great  variety  of  dahlias.  In  front  of  the  chapel 
door  was  an  artificial  grotto  also  covered  with 
flowers.  In  the  garden  itself  the  different 
designs  such  as  hearts,  triangles,  squares  and 
circles  contained  a  profusion  of  flowers,  among 
them  pinks,  chrysanthemums,  lilies  and  vio- 
lets. In  the  middle  of  the  garden  there  was  a 
fountain  with  a  bronze  heron,  and  in  this  foun- 
tain many  ducks  were  floating  about. 

But  farm  life  in  Mexico  i,s  sometimes  far 
from  peaceful.  One  night  after  having  been 
out  taking  a  walk  by  the  river  picking  wild 
flowers  we  returned  home  feeling  happier  than 
ever.  As  it  was  time  for  supper,  we  proceeded 
to  get  everything  ready.  The  table  was 
adorned  with  a  bouquet  of  the  daintiest  white 
flowers  and  the  spacious  dining-room  bright- 
ly illuminated  with  gas  lamps.  I  went  to  call 
my  mother,  but  as  the  house  is  very  large  I 
had  to  cross  two  dark  halls.  Great  was  my 
surprise  when  in  the  last  hall  I  saw  at  least 
five  men  with  their  horses.  I  imagined  that 
they  were  federal  troops ;  so  I  was  not  much 
frightened.  On  I  went  to  the  next  room. 
Here  I  found  the  general,  who  kindly  greeted 
me.  At  that  moment  my  mother  and  sister 
came  out  of  the  adjoining  room.  Both  were 
as  white  as  paper.  With  trembling  voice 
Mother  told  me  how  some  one  had  taken  her 
watch  and  gold  chain  from  her. 

At  once  we  went  to  the  dining-room,  where 
we  found  my  uncle  and  aunt  with  the  rest  of 
the  household,  all  excitedly  talking  with  a 
crowd  of  soldiers.  Nobody  knew  to  what  po- 
litical party  they  belonged ;  the  only  thing  we 
were  sure  of  was  that,  always  aiming  at  us 
with  their  rifles,  they  obliged  us  to  stay  in  the 
dining-room  without  moving.  In  a  minute  we 
saw  others  of  the  band  opening  closets  and 


coming  from  the  rooms  loaded  with  our 
clothes  and  bedding.  How  happy  they 
seemed  to  be  when  they  were  trying  every- 
thing on.  But  as  they  turned  to  us  their 
faces  were  so  far  from  pleasant  that  my 
mother  in  her  fright  longed  to  see  us  all 
safely  hidden  from  their  gaze. 

While  the  general  was  talking  to  my  uncle 
and  compelling  him  to  give  money,  the  colonel 
came  to  inquire  where  we  had  hidden  the 
horses  and  munitions.  We  had  hard  work 
convincing  him  that  we  had  none  of  these 
things.  As  the  general  was  not  pleased  with 
the  amount  of  money  given,  he  ordered  his 
soldiers  to  imprison  my  uncle.  The  latter  had 
been  already  despoiled  of  his  shoes,  and  had 
had  a  box  of  powder  thrown  at  him.  The 
anxiety  of  my  aunt  and  the  crying  of  the  little 
children  can  be  well  imagined.  All  begged  the 
general  to  leave  my  uncle.  To  this  he  did  not 
consent  until  we  promised  to  send  them  a 
certain  amount  of  money  under  the  threat  that 
thev  would  burn  the  house  if  we  failed. 


Some  soldiers  now  came  and  told  the  gen- . 
eral  they  were  being  pursued  by  the  federal 
forces  ;  so  they  had  to  go  away  sooner  than 
they  wished.  The  ransacking  lasted  one  hour 
and  a  half.  During  this  time  there  were  about 
a  hundred  and  fifty  other  bandits  surrounding 
the  house.  That  night  none  of  us  had  supper, 
in  spite  of  the  jeering  remarks  of  the  soldiers, 
who  told  us  that  we  would  be  hungrier  than 
ever  if  we  waited.  Neither  could  we  sleep, 
as  the  bugles,  both  of  the  bandits  and  of  the 
federals,  kept  sounding  all  through  the  night 
and  made  us  expect  to  see  those  men  walking 


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in  at  any  time.  The  next  morning  we  found 
a  dynamite  bomb  at  the  door.  This  they  had 
intended  to  utilize,  had  it  not  been  for  their 
hasty  withdrawal.  That  morning  also  we  de- 
parted from  the  farm,  dressed  with  whatever 
they  had  left.  We  looked  like  a  band  of 
gypsies ! 

Such  an  experience,  though,  occurs  only 
in  periods  of  war,  and  in  spite  of  it  we  re- 
turned to  the  farm  several  times. 

Our  work  as  farmerettes,  however,  had  to 
be  discontinued.  We  hope  sometime  under 
happier  circumstances  again  to  enjoy  its  de- 
lights. 

Aguirre  Cinta. 


NIPPER 


When  Nipper's  new  mistress  first  saw  him, 
he  was  a  fiery  little  fellow  with  a  beautifully 
shaped  head  and  small,  alert  ears  which  he 
laid  back  very  viciously  when  she  tried  to  pet 
him. 

It  was  not  really  Nipper's  fault  that  he  mis- 
trusted all  humans  and  that  he  took  every  op- 
portunity to  inconvenience  or  injure  them.  All 
his  experiences  with  them  had  been  unpleas- 
ant. He  had  been  raised  on  a  large  pony-farm 
in  New  Jersey  where  his  trainer  had  beaten 
him  for  the  slightest  offence,  and  often  for  no 
offence  at  all.  When  six  years  old  he  was 
bought  by  a  wealthy  farmer,  as  a  birthday 
present  for  the  little  daughter  of  the  house- 
hold. She,  however,  had  no  consideration 
for  anybody  or  anything  that  was  in  her  power. 
Accordingly,  she  rode  the  poor  beast  inces- 
santly and  lashed  him  unmercifully. 

It  was  at  this  time  of  his  life  that  he  made 
the  acquaintance  of  Dobbin.  Dobbin  was  a 
big  plow-horse  whose  stall  stood  next  to  his 
and  who,  when  the  pony  came  in  hot,  tired  and 
almost  wild  with  hate  and  rage,  would  gen- 
tly tell  him  that  he  should  be  patient  and 
not  give  way  so  to  his  temper.  To  this  the 
pony,  with  a  snort  of  contempt,  always  re- 
torted that  if  Dobbin  were  ridden  over  rough 


roads  and     whipped     at     every     step,     he 
wouldn't  preach  so  about  patience. 

It  was  the  very  day  after  one  of  these  dis- 
cussions in  which  Nipper  always  had  the  last 
word,  that  he  ran  away  with  his  mistress  and 
threw  her.  She  was  not  hurt  very  badly,  but 
she  was  insensible  for  a  short  time.  This  so 
alarmed  her  fond  father  that  he  promptly  pro- 
nounced the  little  brute  unfit  for  her  to  ride. 

So  it  was  that  he  was  now  in  a  field  back  of 
the  home  of  his  new  mistress,  who  was  trying 
to  coax  him  to  the  fence  with  sugar  and  ap- 
ples held  forth  temptingly  as  a  bait.  He  soon 
overcame  his  fear  and  restiveness  and  became 
happy  and  contented.  He  often  remembers 
Dobbin's  advice  and  wonders  if  he  would  have 
reached  his  present  happy  state  had  he  fol- 
lowed it.  In  fact  when  he  hears  other  ponies 
or  horses  advising  colts  to  have  patience,  he 
can  hardly  keep  from  giving  one  of  his  old 
angry  snorts ;  for  he  himself  believes  that,  in 
some  cases,  a  far  better  virtue  is  active  resist- 
ance. 

Leilya  Barkman. 


■? 


Welcome,  New  Girls !  Lasell  greets  you. 
We  begin  our  school  year  with  lighter  hearts 
than  last  year.  Peace  is  seen  dimly  in  the  dis- 
tance— no  one  can  say  when,  but  it  is  surely 
visible  and  Victory,  although  never  doubted, 
is  now  an-  assured  thing.  Sometimes  this 
happy  thought  tempts  us  to  relax  a  little  in 
our  work,  our  conservation  and  our  self  de- 
nial. Put  let  us  "Carry  On"  and  on  and  on. 
For  although  Peace  should  be  signed  imme- 
diately, there  are  still  France,  Belgium  and  our 
armies  to  feed  and  toil  for.  Let  us  make  the 
most  of  this  year.  Let  us  put  our  heart  and 
soul  in  our  work  and  in  our  play.  Then  when 
June  comes  we  may  indeed  feel  that  our  year 
has  been  a  profitable  and,  I'm  sure,  a  happy 
one. 


TO  NEW  AND  OLD  GIRLS 


Don't  form  cliques — because  Mary  Ann  was 
your  best  friend  here  at  Lasell  last  year,  don't 
give  her  "all"  your  time  this  year.  Go  among 
the  new  girls,  find  them  out,  invite  them  to 
your  rooms,  go  walking  with  them.  So  many 
times  friendships  are  begun  in  the  very  last 
term.  "Oh,  if  we  had  only  met  in  the  begin- 
ning of  the  year"  are  the  what-might-have 
been  cries. 

New  girls,  go  half  way.    You  are  apt  to  stay 


with  each  other ;  you  feel  you  have  a  com- 
mon bond  in  your  strangeness.  Why,  that's 
natural,  of  course,  but  do  not  altogether  avoid 
the  old  girls — they  are  not  so  bad.  Go  out  for 
everything — Glee  Club,  Dramatics,  Canoe 
Club,  Basket  Ball  Team  and  all  other  organiza- 
tions. In  this  way  you  will  make  friendships 
which  are  lasting  and  you  will  acquire  the 
true  Lasell  spirit. 


It  certainly  is  fine  to  have  the  Woodland 
Park  children  with  us.  We  all  welcome  them 
in  the  big  dining  room.  They  remind  many  of 
us  of  our  little  brothers  and  sisters  at  home 
Then,  too,  we  like  to  watch  them  having  such 
jolly  times  in  the  autumn  leaves  or  riding  in 
that  dear  little  pony  cart.  We  love  the  little 
kiddies  and  wish  all  success  to  Woodland 
Park.      , 


A  LEAVES-STAFF  PLEA 


Any  suggestions  for  improving  the  Leaves 
will  be  most  welcome.  Hand  in  any  jokes, 
stories,  poems,  snapshots  of  either  your  friends 
or  places  of  local  interest.  These  may  be  given 
to  any  one  on  the  staff  or  put  in  the  Leaves 
drawer,  Room  70.  Remember  the  success  of 
the  paper  is  largely  "up  to  you." 


Miss  Potter's  talks  on  Thursday  afternoon 
surely  ought  to  make  us  more  thoughtful 
about  the  grace  of  good  manners  at  table  and 
elsewhere.  Miss  Packard,  also,  gave  helpful 
suggestions  one  lecture  hour.  She  made  us 
realize  the  value  of  study  and  the  importance 
of  right  ways  of  study. 


Although  there  has  never  been  a  room  at 
Lasell  set  aside  for  organized  Red  Cross  work, 
a  great  deal  has  been  accomplished  for  the 
society  through  the  efforts  of  teachers  and. 
students.  Already  this  year  forty  sweaters 
have  been  promised  for  the  middle  of  Novem- 
ber, a  good  many  wash-mits  have  been  made 
and  other  articles  are  being  constantly  knitted. 
Before  long  we  are  to  have  a  room  equipped 
for  doing  gauze  work.  Here  several  teachers 
and  experienced  students  will  direct  things, 
but  doubtless  every  girl  will  wish  to  do  her 
part  and  will  be  glad  of  this  convenient  ar- 
rangement. 


four-piece  orchestra,  which  has  so  faithfully 
helped  us  out  in  the  past,  courageously  played 
accompaniments  for  the  noisy  conversation  in 
the  dining-room  and  for  the  swift  dancing  in 
the  gym.  The  purpose  of  the  evening 
fulfilled,  however,  for  at  its  close  the 
girls  felt  quite  at  home. 


On  Thursday  night  of  the  opening  week 
after  both  old  and  new  girls  were  here,  there 
was  a  festive  dinner-hour  and  evening.     The 


was 
se   the   new 


Walking  and  canoeing  were  not  the  only 
forms  of  exercise  indulged  in  during  the  en- 
forced vacation.  One  morning  when  the  men 
and  all  the  available  boys  of  the  hamlet  had 
gone  to  the  potato  fields,  the  girls  raked  up 
piles  of  leaves  and  loaded  them  in  the  cart. 


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The  patient  horse  manifested  no  surprise  at 
this  new  enterprise,  having  evidently  seen 
enough  of  Lasell  girls  to  know  that  they  are 
"here  for  work  and  here  for  fun,"  and  some- 
times can  combine  the  two. 

The  girls  who>  were  here  during  the  Liberty 
Loan  Rally  met  the  challenge  of  the  Mission- 
ary Society  by  raising  twenty-five  dollars 
toward  the  fifty-dollar  bond  for  which  half 
the  sum  had  been  conditionally  pledged. 


At  the  first  vesper  service  of  the  term  we 
were  favored  by  having  as  the  speaker  the 
Rev.  Brewer  Eddy  who  has  recently  returned 
from  France.  Mr.  Eddy's  tour  of  inspection 
for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  committee  brought  him 
into  thrilling  experiences  close  to  the  firing 
line  and  made  him  realize  the  quiet  heroism 
of  the  Allies  and  the  undaunted  spirit  of  our 
own  boys.  His  graphic  word  pictures,  as  well 
as  his  collection  of  deadly  looking  souvenirs, 
gave  us  some  idea  of  the  grim  realities  of  war 
and  strengthened  our  purpose  to  stand  back  of 
the  men  who  count  on  the  steadfast  support 
of  the  people  at  home. 


Miss  Potter  led  the  Christian  Endeavor 
Meeting  on  October  23.  By  apt  stories  and 
illustrations  she  brought  out  the  thought  em- 
bodied in  Christ's  prayer  for  his  disciples — 
"I  pray  not  that  they  be  taken  out  of  the 
world  but  that  they  be  kept  from  the  evil  that 
is  in  the  world." 

On  Sunday  evenings  during  our  enforced 
vacation,  Miss  Potter  has  made  the  hours 
helpful  by  the  reading  of  some  fine  story  and 
by  getting  the  girls  to  select  and  sing  favorite 
hymns.  One  Sunday  evening  she  persuaded 
Miss  Durling,  one  of  the  nurses  for  Gardner 
Hall,  to  give  some  exceedingly  vivid  details  of 
her  two  years'  service  in  France  and  'of  her 
observations  outside  the  hospitals.  Miss  Dur- 
ling is  planning  to  take  up  this  needed  work 
again  in  connection  with  a  Harvard  Medical 
Unit  which  sails  in  a  few  weeks. 

At  the  vesper  service  October  27,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Sullivan  of  Newton  Centre  gave  an  earnest 


talk  on  the  theme  "The  Open  Door."  Across 
the  threshold  of  this  door  there  await  each 
one  a  situation  in  the  home  or  in  the  outside 
_  world  and  a  great  temptation.  Successfully 
to  meet  the  former  and  successfully  to  resist 
the  latter  we  must  train  our  minds  and 
strengthen  our  wills  by  doing  faithfully  the 
irksome,  but  essential,  tasks  of  life. 


Saturday  afternoon,  October  26,  a  number 
of  the  girls  entered  into  a  hare  and  hound 
race.  Given  a  ten  minute  start  the  hares  led 
the  hounds  a  merry  chase  but  after  about  an 
hour's  fun  they  were  tracked  to-  their  hiding 
places  and  obliged  to  give  themselves  up  to  , 
their  swift-footed  pursuers.  The  girls  liked 
the  sport  and  plan  to  give  other  afternoons  to 
it. 


With  Miss  Heinrich  as  able  guide,  a  num- 
ber of  the  girls  walked  to  Echo  Bridge  one  day 
during  the  recess.  They  waked  the  echoes  per- 
sistently and  are  now  sure  that  the  bridge  js 
well-named.  Incidentally  they  enjoyed  the 
substantial  picnic  lunch  for  which  they  had  a 
ravenous  appetite  after  their  bracing  walk  in 
the  clear  autumn  air. 


FROLIC  IN  THE  GYM 


Suffragettes,  farmerettes,  gypsies,  clowns, 
reversibles  and  others  in  strange  attire  made  a 
jolly  company  at  the  frolic  given  by  the  Mis- 
sionary Society  on  Saturday  night,  September 
28.  After  a  long  debate,  the  committee  award- 
ed the  prize  to  the  suffragettes,  the  Carter  Hall 
group,  who  carried  themselves  with  grim  dig- 
nity throughout  the  evening  except  for  their 
occasional  shouts  of  "Down  with  the  men !" 
The  cake  awarded  was  of  strictly  war-time 
make — namely  of  ivory  soap.  Honorable  men- 
tion was  given  to  three  from  Karandon,  who 
successfully  impersonated  anxious  parents 
with  their  youngest  trundled  in  a  go-cart.  An 
efficient  master  of  ceremonies  introduced  va- 
rious stars  who  gave  life-like  reproductions  of 
scenes  at  Lasell  before  and  after  the  Blue  Book 


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had  been  encountered.  Remarkably  discor- 
dant music  was  enjoyed  by  the  audience  and 
perhaps  even  more  by  the  performers.  In  fact 
the  success  of  the  evening  was  due  to  the  way 
in  which  everybody  entered  into  the  spirit  of 
the  affair  as  well  as  to  the  plans  for  the  en- 
tertainment, made  chiefly  by  the  members  of 
the  Senior  Class.. 


SENIOR   ELECTIONS 


Saturday  morning,  October  26,  the  officers 
of  the  class  of  1919  were  announced  in  the 
dining-room.  During  the  first  few  moments 
of  breakfast  the  absence  of  the  Seniors  was 
not  generally  noticed  until  Miss  Rand,  dressed 
as  a  Red  Cross  nurse,  appeared  on  the  landing 
and  announced  that  an  epidemic  had  broken 
out  among  a  few  of  the  Seniors,  and  that 
Priscilla  Alden  had  been  attacked  by  the  germ 
of  presidentitis  and  Ethel  Ramage  had  been 
overcome  by  vice- presidentitis.  The  next  two 
victims  to  be  taken  were  Gertrude  Edwards 
with  secretaryitis  and  Dorothy  Hall  with 
treasureritis,  also  Caroline  Kuhn  and  Alice 
Phillips  were  suffering  with  attacks  of  cheer- 
leaderitis  and  song-leaderitis. 

After  the  announcements  the  1919  banner 
was  hung  on  the  balcony.  Then  the  seniors, 
all  in  white  with  purple  ties,  carrying  the  offi- 
cers arm-chair  fashion,  came  to  the  center  of 
the  dining  room  and  gave  the  rousing  senior 
yell. 


The  fact  that  we  came  through  the  influenza 
epidemic  so  fortunately  is  due  in  large  meas- 
ure to  the  prompt  and  efficient  help  given  by 
some  of  the  teachers.  At  Gardner  Mile  Le 
Royer  and  Miss  Wright,  with  one  or  two 
others,  quickly  arranged  a  hospital.  Here 
Miss  Wright  and  Dr.  Morgenthaler,  Miss  Tut- 
tle,  Mrs.  Saunders  and  Miss  Rand  did  some 
skillful  nursing  besides  qualifying  for  the  tel- 
ephone and  baggage  transfer  business.  Their 
gauze  masks  did  not  disguise  the  fact  that  they 
performed  their  arduous  tasks  with  cheerful 
countenances.  When  the  time  of  convalescence 


came  and  victrolas  with  ukeleles  indicated  a 
return  to  the  joys  of  life,  the  regular  nurses 
granted  these  teachers  some  days  off ;  but  thev 
are  quite  ready  to  give  them  recommenda- 
tions, should  they  care  to  continue  in  this 
important  profession. 

In  the  main  building  Miss  Packard,  Miss 
Heinrich  and  Mile  LeRoyer  kept  "the  sus- 
pects" cheerful  and  comfortable  and  by  their 
watchfulness  prevented  the  spread  of  the 
disease.  Miss  Shank  acted  as  wise  dietitian 
for  all  the  shut-ins — a  by-no-means  easy  task 
in  these  days  of  expensive  substitutes.  For 
the  gauze  masks  we  were  indebted  to  Mrs. 
Wagner  who  kept  us  well  supplied  besides 
making  many  for  the  Red  Cross  emergency 
hospital.  She  also  opened  her  house  to  the 
girls  who  were  well  and  let  them  have  happy 
evenings  there.  We  wonder  what  visions  the 
word  molasses  calls  to  her  mind.  Surely  she 
has  that  charity  which  "suffereth  long  and  is 
kind." 

With  her  usual  resourcefulness,  Miss  Potter 
kept  us  all  in  good  spirits.  She  answered  in- 
numerable letters  and  calls  of  inquiry,  planned 
work  and  play  for  those  who  would  otherwise 
have  become  restless,  and,  when  occasion  de- 
manded, delicately  applied  a  small  paint-brush 
for  some  of  the  patients, — not,  however,  on 
their  faces. 

On  the  whole  the  pulse  of  the  school  is  now 
normal  and  the  temp  is  properly  reduced.  All 
are  looking  forward  to  a  wholesome  year — 
free  from  fever  and  from  fretfulness. 


WOODLAND  PARK  SCHOOL  NOTES 


Woodland  Park  School  opened  at  Carpenter 
Hall  on  Tuesday  morning,  September  24th. 
Miss  Rand  and  the  Lasell  Seniors  have  been 
very  gracious  about  the  giving  up  of  their 
home,  and  as  we  come  to  enjoy  the  house,  we 
realize  more  fully  how  very  kindly  has  been 
their  spirit. 

The  teachers  in  residence  are  Miss  Huson, 
Miss  Chase  and  Mrs.  McDonald— with  Mrs. 
Russell  as  resident  nurse. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Mile.  Frey,  Mrs.  Palmateer,  Mrs.  Saunders, 
Miss  Strang  and  Mrs.  Hooker  come  to  us 
daily  to  instruct  in  French,  drawing,  writing, 
sewing,  arithmetic,  and  spelling.  The  curricu- 
lum includes  all  grades  from  the  first  grade 
to  first  year  in  High  School  inclusive.  A 
large  number  of  outside  pupils  come  for  mu- 
sic lessons. 

We  suffered,  as  did  Lasell,  from  influenza — 
school  closing  Oct.  1st  to  re-open  Oct.  23rd. 
We  are  all  back  and  all  well  and  our  Thanks- 
giving for  the  safe  return  of  an  unbroken 
family  is  not  delayed  till  we  are  commanded 
to  give  thanks  on  Nov.  28th. 

On  Saturday  evening,  October  26th  we  cci^ 
brated  Hallowe'en.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow 
honored  us  and  we  were  happy  to  have  a 
number  of  the  day  pupils  with  us.  Gladys 
Trueman,  Elizabeth  Pomeroy  and  Louise 
Mueller  were  hostesses.  At  their  request,  Mrs 
McDonald  led  the  procession  of  ghosts,  witches 
and  goblins  into  a  darkened  school-room,  and 
was  seated  under  the  chandelier.  As  the 
lights  were  flashed  on  a  shower  of  confetti 
fell  over  her,  while  greetings  of  "Many  Hap- 
py Returns !"  reminded  Mrs.  McDonald  of  a 
near-at-hand  birthday. 

We  had  a  number  of  games  appropriate  to 


the  holiday  and  were  also  asked  to  draw  fa- 
vors from  a  wonderful  Jack  Horner  pie — 
the  gift  of  Mrs.  Mueller  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  evening  came  to  a  jolly  end  with  singing 
and  dancing-. 


We  are  adding  to  our  vocabulary  daily! 
Evilda  asks  for  "a  special  de  liberty  stamp  to 
write  to  her  Father."  Gwendolyn  says  "My 
doll's  head  is  denominated." 

We  were  all  taught  a  sweet  lesson  in  re- 
membrance and  loyalty  one  evening  recently 
when  Inez  Cabrera  told  us  of  her  loves  as  fol- 
lows : — 

"First  I  love  my  God — then  I  love  my 
Mother  and  my  Father — next  I  love  my  Coun- 
try and  then  I  love  my  dear  teacher  who  took 
very  careful  of  me  for  six  years  in  dear  Spain." 


Miss  Austin  comes  to  us  every  afternoon  to 
teach  folk-dancing  and  lead  the  girls  in  health- 
ful outdoor  sports.  Billy,  the  black  pony,  is  a 
joy,  and  Miss  Austin  has  to  show  an  unpreju- 
diced mind  in  deciding  whose  "turn"  it  is  to 
drive.  Our  proudest  times  are  when  wee 
Priscilla  Winslow  consents  to  accompany  us 
on  pony  rides. 


Wedding  bells  are  ringing  along  with  the 
Liberty  bells  which  are  sounding  our  recent 
victorious  movement  in  the  strife  for  democ- 
racy. The  war  doesn't  interrupt  the  marriages 
as  the  following  list  will  prove : 

On  June  third  Beatrice  Mary  Shuttleworth 
became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Richard  Wallace  Rit- 
ter,  First  Lieutenant,  Officers'  Reserve  Corps. 

The  marriage  of  Ruth  Harris,  '16,  to  Mr. 
Herbert  Frank  occurred  on  the  eighteenth  of 
June.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  are  at  home  at 
406  Clara  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Miss  Ruth  Elsbeth  Trowbridge,  '13,  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Mr.  Stuart  Franklin 
Brown  on  June  the  twenty-ninth. 

On  the  second  of  July  Amalia  Rosenbaum, 
'12,  became  Mrs.  Maurice  B.  Gluck  at  Easton, 
Pennsylvania. 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  George  M.  Rowland  announce 
the  marriage  of  their  daughter  Pauline  to  Mr. 
William  M.  Sistare,  Jr.,  Lieutenant,  United 
States  Reserve  on  the  twentieth  of  July. 

Dorothy  Frances  Hartshorn,  '14,  and  Pri- 
vate Clinton  Jerome  Underwood  were  united 
in  marriage  on  the  twentieth  of  July. 

On  August*  first  Clara  Josephine  Spinney, 
'18,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Allen  Procter 
Colby  at  her  home  in  Gloucester,  Massachu- 
setts. 


The  marriage  of  Elizabeth  Adelaide  Herr- 
mann and  Mr.  Newton  Henry  Black  occurred 
on  the  third  day  of  August.  They  will  be  at 
home  after  October  15th  at  15  Ellery  St.,  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts. 

Marion  Louise  Joslin,  '12,  and  Mr.  William 
H.  Oppenheimer  were  united  in  marriage  on 
the  seventh  of  August.  They  are  at  home  at 
786  Laurel  Ave.,  Saint  Paul,  Minnesota. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Julius  S.  Soule  announce 
the  marriage  of  their  daughter  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth, '03,  to  Mr.  Thomas  Cummings  Randall 
on  the  ninth  of  August. 

Corinne  Regina  Becker  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Milton  L.  Wiener  on  the  tenth  of 
August    at    Burlington,    Wisconsin. 

On  the  thirteenth  of  August  Helen  Lucile 
Benson,  '15,  and  Mr.  Axel  Harold  Lofgren 
were  united  in  marriage  at  "Baltimore,  Mary- 
land. 

Helen  Mary  Merrill,  '16,  became  Mrs.  Roy 
Emmett  Strohecker  on  the  twenty-eighth  of 
August. 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  marriage  of 
Frances  May  Harris,  '16,  to  Mr.  Theodore 
Franklin  Speare  on  the  third  of  October. 

Louise  Mayer,  '11,  became  Mrs.  George 
Langer  Schein  on  October  twenty-sixth. 


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On  November  second  Edith  Marcia  Powell, 
'iS,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Walter  William 
Van  der  Wolk. 

We  have  three  engagements  of  special  inter- 
est to  the  latest  "old  girls."  That  of  Mary 
Fiske,  '17,  to  Lieutenant  Kingman  Packard 
Cass.  This  seems  unusually  romantic,  as 
Mary's  mother  was  a  schoolmate  at  Lasell  with 
the  mother  of  Lieutenant  Cass. 

The  announcement  reached  us  in  the  sum- 
mer of  the  engagement  of  Janet  Sarah  Edger- 
ly  and  Mr.  Harold  Everett  Fellows. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of 
Mary  Chilton  Latham  and  Dr.  Merton  Wes- 
ton Foss  is  made. 

Our  most  hearty  congratulations  to  this  list 
of  happy  young  people! 

We  were  thankful  in  midsummer  to  hear  Ed- 
na Rogers  Carlisle's,  '05,  voice,  even  if  we  did 
not  see  her.  It  was  not  her  fault,  however,  for 
she  chanced  to  be  in  Boston  with  her  husband 
and  little  son,  Johnnie  Bill,  on  a  day  when 
Boston  folk  were  "campused."  In  a  letter  re- 
cently received  from  her  she  spoke  of  her 
keen  disappointment  at  not  being  able  to  use 
her  car  (as  automobiling  was  not  allowed  on 
Sunday)  and  not  able  to  take  a  street  car  as  a 
strike  was  then  "on."  By  the  way,  for  six 
weeks  during  the  summer  Edna  was  without 
help  and  we  are  not  surprised  at  all  to  learn 
that  she  measured  up  to  the  need.  We  wish 
we  dared  to  write  in  full  what  she  wrote,  but 
this  much  must  suffice,  that  she  did  well  and 
her  husband  is  loath  to  be  satisfied  with  the 
hired  cook  after  her  exceptional  success.  This 
doesn't  surprise  us  for  Edna,  we  remember, 
was  our  "gold  loaf"  girl  the  year 
she  was  graduated.  During  the  summer  she 
had  a  visit  from  Laura  Simons  who  is  at  pres- 
ent head  of  a  large  orphan  asylum  in  Bridge- 
.port,  Connecticut. 

Gladys  Patterson  Hill,  '04,  according  to  Ed- 
na's report,  is  living  on  Long  Island  with  her 
small  son  and  is  keeping  house  while  her  hus- 
band is  doing  war  work  in  Washington.  By 
the  way,  Edna  was  the  first  old  girl  this  fall 
to   send    in   her   annual    contribution    for   the 


Leaves,  a  very  practical  way  of  showing  one's 
interest  and  loyalty. 

Katherine  Hoag  Norgren,  '15,  writes  from 
Los  Angeles  this  fall.  Her  address  is  1881 
Buckingham  Road,  Los  Angeles,  California. 
She  expresses  a  desire  to  return  and  visit  her 
Alma  Mater  as  she  "ever  entertains  wonderful 
and  happy  memories  of  her  Lasell  school  days" 
and  speaks  with  proper  admiration  of  her 
charming  little  four  months'  old  daughter. 
Her  husband  is  now  a  lieutenant  in  the  avia- 
tion corps  and  is  stationed  at  Garden  City, 
Long  Island.  She  closes  with  greetings  to  all 
and  a  wish  that  Lasell  may  enjoy  a  splendid 
and  happy  school  year. 

Barbara  McLellan,  '18,  writes  of  her  lovely 
visit  at  Gertrude  Trafton's  home  in  Fort  Fair- 
field, Maine,  this  summer  and  a  fine  trip  home 
in  her  car  coming  by  way  of  New  Brunswick, 
speaks  especially  of  the  scenery  along  the  St. 
John's  river.  However,  she  spent  most  of  her 
summer  in  serious  work  at  the  Quartermas- 
ter's Hospital  Supply  Department  in  Boston. 
Barbara  was  to  be  one  of  our  "ladies  in  wait- 
ing" at  the  opening  days  of  school,  but  this 
prevalent  grippe  has  kept  her  housed  thus 
far.    We  hope  for  her  speedy  recovery. 

We  were  sorry  indeed  not  to  "welcome 
home"  again  Florence  M.  Reed.  She  writes 
from  Jamestown  College,  North  Dakota,  ex- 
pressing her  pleasure  at  being  at  school,  but 
a  very  great  regret  that  she  did  not  carry  out 
her  plan  to  return  to  Lasell.  :We  are  glad  she 
has  tucked  away  in  a  corner  of  her  heart  a 
determination  to  come  back  sometime.  Even 
in  the  midst  of  her  enthusiasm  over  her  new 
school,  she  writes  "with  wishes  for  a  splendid 
year  of  prosperity  to  dear  Lasell  and  to  every 
'Lasellite'." 

One  of  the  Lasell  guests  during  the  sum- 
mer was  Frances  Bent  Dillingham,  formerly 
of  our  English  Department.  She  has  been  for 
a  number  of  years  in  the  Porter  School  at 
Farmington,  Connecticut.  While  loyal  to  her 
present  school  home,  Miss  Dillingham  is  al- 
ways enthusiastic  over  her  "first  love,"  Lasell. 

Florence  Evans,  '15,  burst  into  our  midst 


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this  fall  like  a  whiff  of  mountain  air,  her 
cheeks  crimson  with  good  health  and  her 
spirits  bounding  with  enthusiasm  over  her 
summer's  outing  as  counselor  in  a  summer 
camp  called  "Merrymeeting"  at  Bath,  Maine. 
Florence  was  just  starting  West  to  Cincinnati 
as  the  chaperon  of  sixteen  young  girls,  but 
when  we  heard  her  talk  and  realized  the  suc- 
cess she  has  had  we  felt  confident  that  the 
whole  company  would  happily  arrive.  They 
certainly  were  in  safe,  enthusiastic  keeping. 

We  have  learned  from  the  mother  of  one  of 
the  new  girls  of  the  marriage  of  Marion  Swan. 
We  hope  that  the  fair  bride  or  some  of  her 
girl  friends  will  send  us  further  particulars. 

We  thought  we  were  opening  Genevieve  M. 
,Bettcher's,  '14,  wedding  cards.  Those  will 
come  later,  no  doubt,  but  this  time  it  proved  to 
be  an  invitation  to  her  graduation  from  the 
Fannie  A.  Smith  Froebel  Kindergarten  School 
at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut.  Our  congratula- 
tions and  God-speed  to  Genevieve. 

Mildred  Melosh  sends  a  kindly  greeting  and 
tells  us  that  her  plan  for  the  winter  is  to  spec- 
ialize in  one  of  the  New  York  Art  schools. 
We  shall  miss  this  sunny  Lasell  girl  and  wish 
her  success  .in  the  new  work. 

Madeleine  Loomis  Caldwell  came  in  as  of 
yore  the  opening  days  but  only  tarried  for  a 
night.  Her  husband  is  in  service  and  we  hear 
it  rumored  that  she  doesn't  intend  to  be  idle 
but  specialize  along  Domestic  Science  work. 

During  the  summer  Alice  Holman  Swinney, 
Helen  Holman  Schott,  and  little  Mary  Ka- 
trina  Schott,  sisters  of  our  Edith  Holman  of 
Iowa,  called  at  the  Seminary.  They  proved 
delightful  callers  and  we  were  sorry  that  they 
could  not  have  remained  for  a  real  visit. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Maybaum  (Florence 
Timm,  'o5~'o6)  visited  Lasell  this  summer. 
Florence's  husband  is  a  graduate  of  Cornell, 
'05,  and  both  have  been  working  hard  in  war 
work  and  were  taking  a  few  days'  recreation. 
They  inquired  especially  for  Mile.  LeRoyer 
and  Miss  Heinrich. 

Lasell  learned  with  deep  regret  recently  of 
the  passing  away  on  September  27,   191 7,  at 


Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  of  Sarah  Jane  Wells, 
Class  of  1855. 

•  In  a  personal  note  to  our  Principal,  Anna  N. 
Reed  speaks  of  the  death  of  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Charles  E.  Reed,  Class  of  '59.  She  writes : 
"My  mother  always  spoke  of  Lasell  with  great 
affection  and  I  was  much  interested  years  ago 
to  visit  the  school  in  her  company." 

We  were  shocked  to  learn  recently,  through 
Mr.  J.  William  Schweitzer  of  the  sudden  death 
of  his  wife,  Caroline  K.  Steinmetz,  '09,  and  her 
little  son. 

Lasell  extends  her  sincere  sympathy  to  the 
bereaved  families  of  these  former  pupils. 

'During  the  days  when  we  were  quarantined 
on  account  of  the  influenza  we  had  a  call  from 
Miss  Beauclaire  Robinson  of  Orlando,  Florida, 
a  friend  of  Millie  Smith  Floyd.  She  seemed 
to  be  immune  to  fear  for  she  went  very  thor- 
oughly through  the  school  and  was  as  delighted 
as  a  real  Lasell  girl  to  see  the  points  of  inter- 
est. She  spoke  with  enthusiasm  of  our  Millie 
who,  by  the  way,  is  spending  the  winter  at 
Key  West,  Florida,  618  Caroline  St.,  to  be 
near  her  husband  who  is  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Naval  Reserve.  Miss  Robinson  also  told  us  of 
Leona  Benner,  '08,  now  Mrs.  Theo.  Willard 
Brotherton,  1802  Winona  Boulevard,  Los  An- 
geles, California.  Leona  is  very  proud  of  her 
little  son,  Theodore  Willard  Brotherton,  Jr. 

The  recruiting  officer  has  been  very  busy 
this  summer  and  among  the  little  women  and 
men  who  have  come  to  swell  the  Lasell  Grand 
(children)  Army  are  the  following. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sanford  M.  Wagner  announce 
the  arrival  of  Mary  Ransom  on  July  10,  1918. 

A  daughter,  Florence  Stockbridge,  was  born 
on  July  thirty-first  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard 
M.  Kimball  (Mabel  Straker,  '16). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  T.  Hume,  Jr.  (Maria  Riker, 
'09)  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of  a  daughter, 
Martha,  on  August  nth. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Irving  Bean  (Edna  Woolson) 
are  the  proud  parents  of  a  son,  James  Woolson 
Bean,  born  on  August  twenty-sixth. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John    Chandler    (Katherine 


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Fassett)    are    rejoicing   over   the   birth    of    a 
daughter,  Barbara,  on  September  28,  1918. 

Among  the  new  girls  this  year  are  a  num-- 
ber  of  sisters  of  former  Laseil  girls.  Margie 
Baer,  Isabel  Fish,  Freda  Griffin,  Florence 
Kuhn,  Rosalie  Louis,  Gladys  Lucas,  Julia  Ran- 
kin, Helene  Westervelt. 

One  of  our  new  girls,  May  Fogg,  of  Maine, 
is  the  niece  of  Donald  B.  MacMillan,  the  ex- 
plorer. 

Rosenda  Cabrera's  two  little  nieces,  Maria 
and  Inez,  are  in  the  Woodland  Park  School. 

In  her  report  of  LASELL  GIRLS  MET 
THIS  SUMMER  our  Preceptress  writes,  "I 
saw  quite  a  group  of  them  in  Germantowh, 
Pennsylvania,  where  we  had  two  short  visits 
and  a  little  auto  ride  with  Elizabeth  Carlisle, 
'17.  We  saw  her  in  her  own  hospitable  home, 
where  we  again  greeted  her  father  and  mother 
and  later  she  and  Edith  Hohson,  '17  (the  bank- 
er) cameto  us  at  the  home  of  our  hostess,  Eliza- 
beth and  her  sister  were  more  than  busy  in 
Red  Cross  work  and  yet  this  veritable  com- 
mandant has  half  promised  to  find  time  this 
winter  to  organize  a  Pennsylvania-Delaware- 
New  Jersey-District  of  Columbia-Maryland 
'  Laseil  Club.  That  is  a  unit  which  will  include 
all  old  girls  in  or  near  Philadelphia.  Eliza- 
beth's address  is  5612  Green  St.,  Germantown, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Old  girls  who  do 
not  belong  elsewhere,  please  enlist  before  E. 
has  a  chance  to  draft  you! 

In  Germantown,  too,  we  had  a  call  from 
Carleene  Brooke  and  her  guest,  Dorothy  Os- 
borne, which  we  very  much  appreciated.  We 
had  a  "homey"  but  rather  tantalizing  talk  with 
little  Mae  Chan  Lam.  She  was  nearby  in  New 
Jersey,  but  on  account  of  the  illness  of  a  guest, 
could  not  come  to  us.  Since  then  we  have  had 
a  postal  from  her  written  at  Syracuse,  New 
York,  where  she  and  her  husband  were  attend- 
ing a  Chinese  Students'  Convention  held  at 
the  University. 

While  in  Providence  we  visited  the  Food 
Conservation  Booth  which  occupied  a  beauti- 
ful spot  in  the  center  of  Park  Place  in  front 


of  the  Union  Station.  Here  our  own  Miss 
Dorothy  Shank  was  in  charge.  She  spent  the 
entire  summer  in  and  around  this  city  giving 
lectures  and  demonstration  lessons  along  the 
line  of  Food  Conservation.  Later  she  and  her 
sister,  who  is  well  known  as  a  newspaper  cor- 
respondent, writing  under  the  nom  de  plume  of 
Dorothy  Deane,  visited  us  at  our  home  at  Ny- 
att,  Narragansett  Bay  and  wrote  a  charming 
account  of  this  historic  spot.  Miss  Shank  was 
also  a  visitor  at  Laseil  during  the  opening  days 
and  gave  a  fine  account  of  our  doings  at  that 
time,  which  was  published  in  a  Williamsport 
daily  paper. 

During  the  summer  Elizabeth  Hazelet  Weis 
and  her  husband  moved  from  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  to  Jamaica  Plain,  Massachu- 
setts. Mr.  Weis  is  Assistant  Manager  of  the 
Sturtevant  Airplane  Company.  Elizabeth's 
mother,  a  former  Laseil  girl,  Mrs.  Sarah  Ran- 
som Hazelet,  is  at  present  a  guest  in  her  daugh- 
ter's home  and  a  not  infrequent  visitor  in  her 
sister's  (Mrs.  William  Wagner)  home  in  Au- 
burndale. 

Maria  Orozco  has  left  us  and  is  now  a  stu- 
dent at  Boston  University.  Her  mother  is 
still  on  our  faculty  as  instructor  in  Spanish. 

Miss  Rachel  Meserve,  a  graduate  of  Sim- 
mons College,  is  now  assisting  Miss  Shank  in 
the  Department  of  Cooking. 

Miss  Eleanor  Carlisle,  a  Sargent  graduate, 
is  our  new  teacher  of  Physical  Training. 

In  the  Secretarial  Training  Course  among 
the  new  teachers  is  our  own  Miss  Hazel 
Hutchins,  Dr.  Winslow's  private  secretary, 
Mrs.  Bertha  Hooker  of  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt., 
Miss  Annie  Strang,  a  former  student  at  Bos- 
ton University,  and  Miss  Marion  Dooley  of  the 
Chandler  School,  Boston.  Prof.  Walter  Ames- 
bury,  the  former  head  of  this  department,  is 
devoting  all  of  his  time  to  the  Bryant  and 
Stratton  School.  We  shall  miss  his  efficient 
service  but  Laseil  is  to  be  congratulated  in  hav- 
ing such  a  strong  unit  of  new  instructors  in 
this  department  which  is  this  year  one  of  the 
most  popular  courses  at  Laseil. 


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Miss  Caroline  Lindsay  is  now  our  head 
nurse  at  Lasell,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Russell. 

A  number  of  us  had  a  pleasant  surprise  the 
other  day  when  we  were  waited  upon  by  Mrs. 
Ruth  Trowbridge  Brown,  '13,  Mrs.  Una  Wise 
Hass,  and  Mrs.  Dorothy  Fink  Willson,  '13. 
They  were  motoring  through  the  country,  Mrs. 
Trowbridge,  Ruth's  mother  acting  as  chaperon. 
They  never  looked  more  charming  and  we  do 
not  know  as  they  ever  looked  as  charming  as 
on  the  day  of  "their  visit.  The  girls  had  been 
Ruth's  guests  and  declared  in  the  vernacular 
of  the  old  Lasell  days  that  "their  hostess  lived 
in  a  beautiful  home  and  was  a  beautiful  house- 
keeper." Una's  husband  is  in  France  on  war 
work.  The  two  Pennsylvania  girls  declared 
that  they  would  be  glad  to  go  sixty  or  seventy 
miles  to  Philadelphia  to  attend  that  Pennsyl- 
vania Lasell  Club  that  Elizabeth  Carlile  has 
in  mind.  Ruth  brought  us  the  good  tidings 
that  her  older  sister,  Clara,  '12,  is  now  a  regu- 
lar professor  at  Northfield  Seminary  special- 
izing in  English  and  also  assisting  the  regis- 
trar. 

Miss  Mullikin  shared  with  us  recently  two 
charming  letters,  one  from  Ethel  Bushnell,  who 
is  now  at  an  Art  school  in  Lakewood,  Ohio. 
We  are  proud  to  know  that  she  received  full 
credit  for  her  last  year's  art  work  so  that  she 
was  not  obliged  to  take  the  cast  drawings. 
They  also  recommended  her  to  "go  in  strong" 
for  designing  work,  as  the  critics  admired  the 
costumes  that  Ethel  designed  this  summer.  She 
is  evidently  going  to  devote  herself  entirely  to 
art  for  she  has  started  on  a  five  years'  course. 
Ethel  illustrated  her  letter  with  several  draw- 
ings and  is  evidently  at  her  favorite  occupa- 
tion. 

Alice  McFarland  wrote  Miss  Mullikin  that 
she  is  planning  to  spend  the  winter  with  cous- 
ins in  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  where  she  expects 
to  go.  on  with  her  art  studies  at  the  Univer- 
sity. We  are  not  surprised  to  find  that  Alice 
is  into  every  good  work,  raising  money  for 
the  War  Fund,  and  taking  a  good  deal  of  care 
at  home  in  order  to  relieve  her  mother.  We 
think  the  last  part  of  Alice's  letter  is  of  un- 


usual interest  and  we  venture  to  publish  it 
without  getting  permission  from  the  head  of 
our  Art  Department.  "The  day  when  I  left 
Lasell  to  come  home  I  went  to  the  New  School 
and  took  some  of  my  work  along  to  show  the 
instructor  in  interior  decoration  and  she  said 
it  was  fine  and  that  it  would  give  me  credit 
for  one  year's  work.  Also  that  if  I  wished  to 
take  a  course  in  interior  decoration  there 
I  could  enter  as  a  second  year  pupil  and 
graduate  in  one  year.  All  due  to  Miss  Mulli- 
kin's  faithful  instruction !" 

Lillian  Douglass,  '07,  wrote  to  Miss  With- 
erbee  in  August  from  Canvas  City,  California. 
She  was  spending  part  of  the  summer  on  this 
charming  island  with  Edith  Simonds  Bennett. 
She  speaks  of  the  good  appetite  provoked  by 
the  sea  air  and  of  enjoying  the  concerts  and 
other  entertainments,  but  most  of  all  the  splen- 
did out-door  life.  She  took  a  long  tramp  the 
entire  length  of  the  island  and  made  a  stiff 
climb  on  to  the  point  where  they  could  see  the 
sea  in  almost  every  direction.  She  refers  to 
the  French  Relief  Auxiliary  which  they  formed 
last  December  and  the  members  of  which  have 
done  splendid  work.  She  expects  this  winter 
to  take  the  Canteen  course  in  Pasadena.  We 
hope  that  will  not  be  necessary  as  the  war 
seems  to  be  drawing  to  a  close.  She  closes  the 
letter  with  "We  had  a  lovely  Lasell  reunion 
last  spring  at  the  home  of  Virginia  Johnson 
Millbank."  One  of  the  unique  items  in  her 
letter  is  that  in  June  they  exchanged  houses 
with  some  friends  who  had  a  lovely  home  right 
on  the  ocean  front  at  Long  Beach  and  enjoyed 
it  very  much.  She  says  she  never  had  the  ex- 
perience before  of  stepping  right  into  some- 
one's home. 

Florence  Bell,  '17,  Mabel  Straker  Kimball, 
'16,  and  little  Miss  Kimball  motored  all  the 
way  fram  Attleboro  recently  and  took  lunch- 
eon at  Lasell.  When  Mabel  joined  us  at 
luncheon  with  her  precious  little  daughter, 
twelve  weeks  old  in  her  arms  we  were  afraid 
that  she  would  be  too  occupied  to  do  justice 
to  the  meal,  but  the  truth  was  that  we  were  all 
so  fascinated  with  the  bright  and  blessed  little 


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Lasell  girl  that  we  ourselves  came  near  forget- 
ting to  eat.  Both  girls  were  well  and  Mabel 
brave  during  the  separation  from  her  soldier 
husband. 

Gertrude  Allen  and  Helen  Eager  have  both 
been  giving  of  their  time  recently  to  boom  the 
Liberty  Loan.  It  goes  without  saying  that  thev 
were  both  very  successful  promoters  and  we 
are  proud  of  them. 

One  of  the  most  helpful  old  girls  to  return 
during  the  opening  days  was  Elaine  Eaton,  '18. 
We  shall  always  remember  with  gratitude  the 
glad  hand  which  she  extended  to  the  new  girls. 
We  only  hope  she  will  come  to  us  often. 

Maude  Hayden,  '16,  and  Ruth  Griffin,  '15, 
were  kind  enough  to  give  us  just  a  few  hours 
during  the  opening  days.  We  are  always  re- 
joiced when  they  come  "home." 

Constance  Allen,  '18,  helped  our  new  girls 
over  what  might  have  been,  but  for  her  cheer- 
ing presence,  many  homesick  hours. 

Miss  Frances  K.  Dolley  is  fully  settled  at 
Columbia  University  and  enjoying  her  post- 
graduate work  immensely.  She  writes  enthu- 
siastically of  the  rare  advantages  which  are 
found  in  her  special  course,  also  that  she  has 
already  met  Huldah  Halley,  '18  and  Nellie 
Wong. 

She  also  had  a  visit  recently  from  Mrs.  Nel- 
lie Ferry  Rand  who  was  awaiting  the  arrival 
of  the  transport  which  brought  her  husband, 
Lieut.  Robt.  Rand,  home  from  France  on  his 
first  furlough. 

Miss  Nellie  Warner  expects  to  spend  a  few 
months  serving  in  one  of  the  largest  state  in- 
stitutions for  young  women  in  Newark,  New 
York,  and  later  rejoiced  our  hearts  by  suggest- 
ing the  possibility  of  taking  up  some  graduate 
work  in  one  of  the  Boston  schools. 

Our  Miss  Witherbee  was  called  suddenly 
away  from  Lasell  during  the  opening  days  be- 
cause of  the  death  of  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Lewis,  at 
Laurel,  Delaware,  with  whom  she  made  her 
home  during  vacation  days.  Our  sincere  sym- 
pathy is  extended  to  her  and  the  bereaved 
members  of  this  family. 

The  husband  of   Helen   Sayre  Jacobs,   '11, 


Lieutenant  Jacobs,  has  been  recalled  by  the 
Government  to  this  country  to  serve  as  an  in- 
structor in  one  of  the  military  camps.  Lieu- 
tenant Jacobs,  among  other  severe  experiences 
on  the  battle  line,  was  gassed,  but  has  suffi- 
ciently recovered  to  serve  his  country  in  this 
new  capacity. 

Congratulations  are  extended  to  our  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Wagner  (Minnie  Ransom)  over 
the  recent  honor  which  came  to  their  older 
son,  Lieutenant  Charles  Wagner,  who  is  now 
Captain  Wagner,  instructor  at  Camp  Hum- 
phreys. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Earl  H.  Ordway  are  rejoicing 
over  the  birth  of  a  little  son,  David  Whitney 
Ordway,  who  recently  came  to  gladden  their 
home. 

Miss  Lillian  Draper,  daughter  of  Nellie 
Packard  Draper,  '84,  is  back  from  the  war  zone 
after  having  served  for  one  year  in  secretarial 
service,  being  in  Paris  during  the  bombard- 
ments. She  recently  gave  a  most  interesting 
and  vivid  account  of  her  war  experiences  in 
one  of  our  local  churches.  Lasell  is  hoping 
to  hear  her. 

We  were  delighted  to  meet  Ella  Stedman 
Frank's,  '82,  daughter  Louise  (Mrs.  Van  Ars- 
dale)  and  her  husband,  who  stopped  at  the 
school  during  an  auto  trip.  It  was  their  first 
visit  to  their  mother's  Alma  Mater  and  they 
were  enthusiastic.  Ella  Stedman  Frank  has 
resigned  the  position  which  she  has  occupied 
for  the  past  six  years  as  the  head  of  one  of  the 
philanthropic  schools  in  Ithaca  and  hopes  at 
Christmas  time  to  be  keeping  house  for  her 
son  who  occupies  a  high  financial  position  in 
the  army. 

Dear  Aurora  Rivera  writes  an  enthusiastic 
and  nevertheless  homesick  letter  from  Porto 
Rico,  by  the  way,  a  wonderfully  good  letter  in 
English,  notwithstanding  "her  fears."  She  in- 
quires especially  for  Miss  Packard.  She  speaks 
of  the  delightful  automobile  rides  during  the 
summer  on  the  island  but  is  very  sorry  that  she 
cannot  come  back  to  the  States  until  after  the 
war.  She  closes  her  letter  by  declaring  that 
"this  is  a  very  pretty  country.    There  is  noth- 


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ing  like  Porto  Rico"  and  sends  love  to  all  her 
friends.  That  is  a  true  word  she  writes,  "I  am 
always  happy.  Nothing  makes  me  sad."  We 
shall  miss  this  optimistic  little  Lasellite  this 
year. 

In  a  personal  letter  to  our  preceptress  Ele- 
anor Tingley  Hammer  announces  the  birth  of 
a  dear  little  daughter  on  August  19th,  whom 
they  have  named  Jennie  Eleanor  after  mother 
and  grandmother.  She  declares  that  some  of 
her  happiest  years  were  spent  here  in  Auburn- 
dale  at  Lasell  and  promises  to  send  a  picture  of 
the  baby  soon. 

Mabel  C.  Jones,  '14,  evidently  considers  her- 
self immune,  for  at  the  time  of  the  height  of 
our  influenza  visitation  she  and  a  charming 
cousin  of  Evelyn  Schmidt,  '14,  called  at  the 
Seminary  and  declared  that  they  were  fear- 
less. Mabel  is  now  in  the  Intelligence  Bureau 
of  the  Adjutant  General's  Office.  She  cer- 
tainly is  a  happy  and  successful  business  wom- 
an. She  told  us  that  Patty  Hannigan  is  study- 
ing at  the  Homeopathic  Hospital.  Sophie  Bar- 
rett, '14,  is  at  work  in  a  New  Haven  hospital. 
Mildred  Hotchkiss,  '14,  is  doing  Red  Cross 
work  in  New  Haven  and  Sophie  Wendt  is  de- 
voting herself  to  art  work  along  the  line  of 
decorating  Christmas  cards,  etc.  No  doubt 
she  would  be  glad  to  receive  orders  from  her 
old  friends.  Mabel's  new  address  is  580  Com- 
monwealth Ave.,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

In  Barbara  Jones,  '14,  last  letter  she  tells 
us  that  her  brother  in  France  has  been  pro- 
moted to  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  made  Quar- 
termaster of  the  33d  Division.  He  has  been  on 
the  firing  line  and  once  or  twice  was  in  very 
grave  danger.  Barbara  writes,  "I  am  a  real- 
for-sure  working  lady  now.  The  first  of  Sep- 
tember the  First  National  Bank  called  me  up 
and  said  they  were  swamped  with  work  and 
needed  help.  Ever  since  then  I  have  been 
taking  the  place  of  a  young  man  who  left  for 
the  army  so  that  I  feel  in  a  way  I  am  doing 
some  war  work."  She  is  also  taking  a  course 
in  Home  Care  of  the  Sick  and  finds  it  inter- 
esting. 

Amy   Tuthill,    '18,    is    now    a    full    fledged 


teacher.  During  the  summer  she  had  a  de- 
lightful visit  at  the  home  of  Doris  Gorke,  '18, 
where  Gertrude  Allen,  '17,  joined  her. 

Irene  Sauter  Sanford,  '06,  and  Julia  Potter 
Schmidt,  '06,  came  home  to  Lasell  for  a  real 
visit  early  in  September.  They  declared  they 
enjoyed  every  moment,  and  both  mothers  are 
already  talking  of  selecting  a  room  for  their 
little  daughters  who  will  be  en  route  to  Lasell 
some  ten  years  hence. 

Lieut.  Robert  F.  Raymond,  Jr.,  brother  of 
Miss  Raymond,  has  been  awarded  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Cross  by  General  Pershing. 
In  making  the  award  General  Pershing  said  it 
was  "for  extraordinary  heroism  in  action 
near  Chateau-Thierry  on  June  24." 

If  any  of  you  know  the  address  of  Mil- 
dred Johnson  in  France,  will  you  kindly 
send  it  to  the  editor  of  the  Supplement. 

We  are  pained  to  read  in  the  Los  Angeles 
Daily  of  the  sudden  death  of  Mr.  Gail  John- 
son, brother  of  Virginia  Johnson  Milbank 
and  Carrie  Johnson  '94.  Dr.  Bragdon  says 
of  him,  "He  was  one  of  the  finest  men  I 
ever  knew.  He  served  as  trustee  of  the 
University  of  Southern  California  and  was 
deeply  interested  in  its  development.  With 
many  other  responsibilities,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Exemption  Board  for  some  time." 

Chester  Wells,  the  ten  year  old  son  of 
Edith  Burke  Wells,  died  on  August  26th. 
Mrs.  Wells  is  the  daughter  of  Professor 
Burke  who  was  teacher  of  sciences  at  Lasell. 
Mr.  Wells  has  been  honored  by  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Massachusetts  Senate. 

More  and  more  are  we  impressed  these 
days  by  the  fact  that  women  are  taking  the 
place  of  men.  Mabel  Whitney  '03,  who  was 
graduated  from  Gordon  Bible  College  last 
spring  has  had  the  charge  of  two  Maine  par- 
ishes during  the  summer.  She  writes  an 
interesting  letter  of  her  various  experiences. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elsie  Browd,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  M.  B.  Browd  of  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  to  Assistant  Paymaster  Allen  M.  Du- 
mas, U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  took  place  on  Saturday, 
August  31,  at  the  Church  of  the  Covenant, 


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Washington,  D.  C.  The  groom  is  the  son 
of  Sephie  Mason  Dumas  '83. 

The  death  of  Colonel  W.  R.  Warnock  oc- 
curred at  Urbana,  111.,  July  31.  He  is  father 
of  Clifford  Warnock.  A  most  interesting 
sketch  of  his  life  appears  in  the  daily  paper 
of  that  city.  He  was  one  of  Urbana's  best 
known  and  highly  respected  citizens,  a  man 
of  affairs  and  conspicuous  in  both  public  and 
church  life.  His  words  were  worthy  of 
attention  at  all  times. 

Lizzie  Burnham  Low  '87,  announces  the 
birth  of  her  grandchild,  David  Story  Low, 
August  12. 

The  Lasell  girls  of  the  late  eighties  will  be 
glad  after  these  years  of  silence  to  have  a 
word  from  Constance  Waite  Rouse.  In  a 
letter  to  Miss  Packard  she  writes  of  an  eight 
years  residence  in  Omaha,  where  she  attend- 
ed a  Lasell  Luncheon,  later  in  Toledo,  O., 
and  in  Worcester,  Mass,  and  this  winter  in 
Seattle,  Wash.  Her  husband  has  been  in- 
terim pastor  in  important  parishes  in  these 
localities.  Her  son  is  a  lieutenant  in  aviation 
in  San  Antonio,  Texas,  one  daughter  gradu- 
ated from  Smith  last  June  and  another  is  in 
the  class  of  1919. 

She  sends  word  also  of  Lillian  Tukey  By- 
ram  in  whose  beautiful  home  in  Evanston 
she  dined  last  May.  Mr.  Byram  is  the  fed- 
eral manager  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and 
St.  Paul  Railroad.  A  big  wooden  ship  was 
christened  at  the  Olympia  yards  last  sum- 
mer by  Mrs.  Byram. 

A  dear  little  girl,  Miriam,  has  come  to 
bless  the  home  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  G.  Stanley 
Brown,   (Mai  Chisholm). 


A  PERFECT  TRIBUTE 


Lasell  teachers  and  girls  of  recent  years 
will  recall  the  unfailing  courtesy  of  the  late 
Howard  Mitchell,  the  young  bank  official 
in  charge  of  our  Auburndale  Newton  Trust 


Company  office.  Seldom  have  we  read  a 
more  perfect  tribute  than  the  one  paid  this 
young  officer  by  the  men  of  his  battalion. 
The  following  letter,  tender  and  true,  ap- 
peared in  a  recent  copy  of  the  Newton 
Graphic. 
"Dear     Mother     and     Father     of     Howard 

Mitchell : 

"During  the  past  summer  we  have  lived 
with  your  son  at  United  States  Naval 
Camps.  He  came  to  fill  such  a  place  in  our 
lives  that  the  shock  of  his  loss  bears  heavily 
upon  us.  His  Captain  says,  'Oh  he  was 
such  a  big,  clean,  classy  boy !  Till  the  last 
minute  I  worked  and  prayed  to  save  him.' 
The  doctor  says,  'We  have  lost  a  Prince.' 
We  would  rather  not  try  to  say  anything. 
But  if  any  word  of  ours  may  help  you,  we 
don't  want  to  leave  it  unsaid. 

"As  Mitchell  was  our  right  guide,  we  kept 
our  line  straight  by  watching  his  big,  hand- 
some figure  swinging  along,  over  at  the 
right  of  the  company.  Before  long  we 
learned  that  he  was  also  a  'right  guide'  in 
other  ways.  We  never  heard  him  speak  an 
oath  or  an  unclean  word ;  we  never  saw  him 
shirk.  He  always  placed  his  own  rights  and 
pleasures  second  to  those  of  others.  We 
never  heard  him  say  an  unkind  word  about 
any  officer  or  man;  his  frankness  and  sin- 
cerity made  that  unthinkable.  Quiet, 
thoughtful,  conscientious,  humble,  brave,  he 
came  to  stand  for  us  a  living  example  of  a 
young  Christian  patriot. 

"Before  many  months  our  company  will 
probably  be  broken  up.  Some  of  us  will  be 
in  far  corners  of  the  earth ;  some  will  be  in 
ships  on  various  seas ;  others  may  not  be  on 
earth  or  sea.  But  each  one  of  us,  in  port  or 
at  sea,  hereafter  will  be  better  able  to  fight 
the  good  fight  because  we  will  'carry  on' 
with  the  help  of  the  living  spirit  of  Mitchell, 
our  right  guide. 

"Sincerely, 
"Officers  and  men  of  First  Company  Second 

Battalion,  Fourteenth  Division,  U.  S.   N. 

T.  C,  Bumkin  Island,  Massachusetts." 


The    Apparel    Doesn't    Always    Proclaim 
the  Man 


First  Officer  (in  spasm  of  jealousy)  — 
"Who's  the  knock-kneed  chap  with  your  sister, 
old  man?" 

Second  Officer — "My  other  sister." 

—Ex. 


Graphic 

Negro  Sergeant — "When  I  say  '  'Bout  face !' 
you  place  de  toe  of  yo'  right  foot  six  inches  to 
de  reah  of  de  heel  of  yo'  left  foot  and  jus'  ooze 


Poor   Pete 


Mrs.  Nuritch — "Edith,  what  are  you  read- 

ing?" 

Daughter — "Petrarch's   poems,   ma." 

Mrs.  Nuritch — "Edith,  haven't  I  warned  you 

against  the  vulgar  habit  of  shortening  men's 

names?     Say  Peter  Rarch." — Ex. 


The  Poetry  of  Advertising 


An  advertising  man  who  has  returned  re- 
cently from  the  Orient  says  the  Japanese  mer- 
chants and  manufacturers  do  not  limit  them- 
selves to  the  dull,  prosaic  statements  concern- 
ing the  excellence  of  their  wares.    Among  the 


entertaining  bits  that  the  traveler  noticed  in 
his  study  of  Japanese  advertising  are  these : 

"Goods  dispatched  expeditiously  as  a  can- 
non-ball." 

"Parcels  done  up  with  such  loving  as  a  wife 
bestows  upon  her  husband." 

"The  print  of  our  books  is  clear  as  crystal ; 
the  matter  charming  as  a  singing  girl." 

"Customers  are  treated  as  politely  as  by  rival 
steamship  companies." 

"Our  silks  and  satins  are  as  smooth  as  a 
lady's  cheeks  and  colored  like  the  rainbow." 

It  ought  to  be  possible  to  get  advertisements 
read  in  Japan  without  scattering  them  around 
next  to  "pure  reading  matter." — Ex. 


Query :  "Why  is  Lasell  life  at  times  mo- 
notonous ?" 

Ans. :  "Infrequent  checks  from  home  don't 
afford  us  much  chanee." 


Grocer :  "One  box  crackers,  one  cake  of 
chocolate,  three  apples,  package  of  gum :  sev- 
enty-two cents.     Is  that  all  ?" 

Customer:  "Not  quite,  I'm  saving  three 
cents  for  a  stamp?" 


Miss  R.  (hearing  a  snicker  as  she  is  record- 
ing names  alphabetically)  :  "What's  wrong?" 

Mercy  N :  "I  have  forgotten  where  my 
name  comes." 

Where  do  you  think  it  ought  to  come, 
Mercy  ? 


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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND   FORMER  STUDENTS 

"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

FARM    NUMBER 

All  articles  or   "bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor  — 

Lillian  M.   Packard 


large  plots  of  land  hired  for  the  purpose  in 
Weston  and  along  the  Charles  River  bank. 
Many  of  the  gardens  were  on  the  school 
campus. 

In  spite  of  the  difficulty  of  securing  labor 
and  occasional  adverse  weather  conditions 
the  results  were  very  satisfactory  and  much 
credit  is  due  to  Mr.  E.  J.  Winslow,  Mr.  Ord- 
way  and  Mr.  Harper,  the  head  gardener. 
The  largest  and  perhaps  the  best  crop  is 
the  potato  crop.  Seventeen  hundred  bushels 
harvested  from  the  ten  acres  planted  will 
supply  our  table  and  that  of  some  of  the 
people  of  the  village.  Other  vegetables  and 
fruit  have  also  been  grown.  Here  is  the  list : 
Asparagus,  beans,  beets,  cabbage,  carrots, 
celery,  corn,  cucumbers,  lettuce,  parsley, 
parsnips,  peas,  peppers,  rhubarb,  spinach, 
squash,  strawberries,  tomatoes  and  turnips. 
One  cannot  forget  the  group  of  little  boys 
on  the  place  who  have  been  earning  their 
pennies  and  sometimes  their  dollars  during 
their  vacation,  digging  potatoes,  raking 
leaves  and  performing  various  necessary 
tasks,  while  some  of  the  girls  have  helped  in 
the  canning  which  has  ben  carried  on  in 
the  cooking  laboratory  during  the  summer 
months.  The  names  of  these  patriotic  chil- 
dren will  have  a  familiar  sound.  Richard 
Winslow,  Walter  and  Jack  Kirby,  Welling- 
ton and  William  Harper,  Johnny  Hart.  Wil- 
liam Henrich,  and     Joseph     Castoldi,     Edith 


The  Bureau  of  Education  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interior  has  recently  published 
a  School  Garden  Army  Number  and  we  in 
a  very  humble  manner  follow  its  lead  and 
give  to  our  readers  this  Farm  Number  Sup- 
plement. It  is  necessarily  far  from  complete 
for  many  more  of  you  doubtless  have  been 
playing  with  Mother  Earth  this  past  summer. 
To  all  who  have  shown  their  patriotism  in 
this  way  we  send  our  thanks  and  greetings. 


THE  LASELL  GARDENS 


Our  frontispiece  shows  one  of  Lasell's  pa- 
triotic gardens  of  the  past  season.  It  is  one 
part  of  the  fourteen  or  more  acres  which  have 
been  under  cultivation.     This  includes  two 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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Harper,  Marion  Kirby,  Ruth  Emerson,  Mar- 
garet and  Marie  Coleman. 

Dr.  Winslow  is  also  much  interested  in 
his  chicken  and  dairy  farm  in  Weston  from 
which  comes  most  of  our  supply  of  milk 
and  cream. 


CANNING 


The  practise  kitchen  was  a  scene  of  activity 
during  the  summer  while  Mrs.  Russell  and 
"Elizabeth''  canned  our  own  vegetables,  etc. 
The  report  reads  thus :  beans  856  quarts,  to- 
matoes 800,  beets  290,  apple  sauce  6,  crab  apple 
preserve  18,  crab  apple  juice,  clear  sauce  24, 
summer  squash  56,  corn  28,  blueberry  sauce 
21,  chow  chow  12,  chili  sauce  28,  mock  mince 
meat  65,  and  jelly  70  tumblers. 


FARM   GOSSIP 


"You  shall  hear  of  the  gossip  of  the  farm 
now.  Thirty-six  baby  pigs  arrived  last 
week,  fat  red-haired  little  gruntlings  with  a 
much  larger  appetite  and  squeal  than  we 
would  expect  from  their  size.  I  set  four 
hens  today  and  now  the  point  is  will  they 
stay  set?  May  I  ship  you  a  wobbly  long- 
legged  orphan  lamb  to  tie  to  the  leg  of  your 
sofa?  Some  one  must  adopt  him.  You  would 
love  to  watch  the  lambs  gather  together 
away  from  the  old  folks  and  play  in  the 
evening. 

"Cooking  is  becoming  a  more  serious  af- 
fair every  day.  We  have  plenty  of  every- 
thing so  far,  but  my  bread  inventions  are  in- 
teresting and  at  times  painful  and  pathetic. 
This  week  we  have  a  combination  of  rye, 
buckwheat,  corn  flour,  some  white  flour  and 
lots  of  potatoes.    It  is  voted  the  best  yet. 

"There  is  little  Red  Cross  or  anything 
else  out  here.  When  I  see  these  half-clad 
little  children  or* dry  land  farmers,  I  can  say 
that  their  bit  is  not  in  making  things  like 
that,  but  in  raising  things  like  potatoes, 
wheat  and  beef,  but  fear  that  the  price  they 


expect  to  get  is  the  incentive  and  not  the 
patriotism." 

Jean  McKay. 


REAL  FARMERS,  THESE  GIRLS 


(From  a  Summer  edition  of  a  Boston  daily.) 
The  Misses  Alice  Phillips  and  Marion 
Russett  of  Jamaica  Plain,  the  former  a  La- 
sell  Seminary  girl  and  the  latter  a  student 
at  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College, 
are  giving  the  people  of  Milford  the  surprise 
of  their  lives  and  are  showing  the  farmers 
that  girls  can  do  as  much  work  as  the  men. 
These  girls  have  been  working  on  the  farm 
of  Alexander  V.  Phillips,  a  Boston  busi- 
ness man.  Mr.  Phillips  at  the  start  of  the 
war  saw  the  need  of  greater  food  production 
and  conservation  and  acted  accordingly.  This 
spring  the  labor  problem  struck  Milford,  but 
he  surmounted  it  by  employing  his  daugh- 
ter and  her  college  chum  as  farm  help. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


The  girls  work  on  the  farm  10  long  hours 
daily  and  on  Sunday  they  feed  the  stock, 
which  consists  of  a  flock  of  2000  hens  and 
chickens,  300  pigs  and  40  cows. 

They  arise  at  daybreak  and  work  through 
until  early  evening.  They  have  tried  their 
hand  at  running  the  power  spraying  ma- 
chine that  is  used  in  the  large  orchards  and 
in  cutting  cord  wood  at  odd  times,  for  this 
farm  of  300  acres  has  over  100  acres  of  wood- 
land. 

All   last  week   the   girls   were  busy   run- 
■  ning  the  mowing  machines  and  in  running 
the  cultivators   through   the   acres  of   corn, 
potatoes,  beans  and  other  garden  truck. 

The  girls  feed  the  chickens  twice  a  day 

and  the  pigs  three  times  a  day.     The  cattle 

are  driven  out  to  pasture  after  the  milking 

'  in  the  morning  and  back  to  be   milked  in 

the  evening. 

Manager  Lawrence  Rossiter  of  the  farm 
stated  that  these  girls  were  better  workers 
than  any  men  he  has  ever  had  on  the  place. 
The  children  of  the  neighborhood  also  come 
in  for  their  share  of  work  weeding  and  pick- 
ing up. 

This  farm  at  present  markets  more  butter 
and  eggs  than  all  the1  rest  of  town,  and  in 
the  fall  will  add  thousands  of  bushels  of 
vegetables  to  the  local  market.  A  rich  man's 
plaything  has  turned  out  one  of  the  finest 
food  producing  plants  in  the  State,  and  the 
bulk  of  the  work  falls  on  these  two  girls. 
Miss  Phillips  is  a  member  of  our  present 
senior  class. 


the  work.  It  is  so  much  nicer  than  being 
idle  during  these  times.  The  group  are  all 
college  girls,  two  from  Wellesley,  two  from 
Sargent,  four  from  Smith,  three  from  Bos- 
ton University,  two  from  Radcliffe,  and 
then  Lasell.  They  all  seem  to  think  the 
home  economics  course  at  school  is  wonder- 
ful and  I  am  trying  my  very  best  to  keep 
up  to  the  high  standards  of  Lasell." 

This  is  the  bill  of  fare  for  one  day  chosen 
at  random.  Expenses  had  to  be  kept  within 
$3.50  per  person  for  a  week. 

BREAKFAST,  JULY  9,  6.30  A.  M. 

Raspberries 

Malt  Cereal 

Scrambled  Eggs   on  Toast 

Coffee  or  Milk 

LUNCHES    (put  up  in  baskets) 

Peanut  butter  sandwiches 

Egg  sandwiches 

Lettuce  and  Mayonnaise  Sandwiches 

Tuna  fish  sandwiches 

Cup   Custards 

Milk  Fruit 

DINNER,  JULY  11 

Fish  Souffle 

Baked  Potatoes 

Stewed   Tomatoes 

Boiled  Custards  with 

Pineapple  Sauce 

Not  far  from  Great  Barrington  was  an- 
other college  unit  the  culinary  part  of  which 
was  in  charge  of  Elise  Beaudry  '18.  Elise 
has  been  too  busy  or  modest  to  send  us  an 
account  of  her  work,  but  we  hear  it  rumored 
that  it  was  because- of  her  success  that  a  Lasell 
girl  was  sought  for  Great  Barrington. 


FROM  A    LETTER    FROM     PHYLLIS 

ROWE,  '19,  WRITTEN  LA~3T 

SUMMER 


"I  am  up  in  Great  Barrington  with  the 
Alford  Garden  and  Farm  Unit,  Woman's 
Land  Army  of  America.  There  are  four- 
teen of  us  and  my  duty  is  to  plan  the  meals 
and  buy  the  supplies  and  oversee  the  cook- 
ing. I  also  go  out  in  the  fields  gardening 
and  farming.     I  am  very  much  interested  in 


GARDEN  NOTES 


In  a  very  welcome   letter   received  from  ' 

Mabel  Case  Viot  she  speaks  of  her  niece,  our 

■Katherine    Patterson  -  of    last    year,  of    her 

work    on    the    farm    with    her    mother    and 

father  and  of  her  plans  for  war  work  this 

fall. 

Have  you  tried  the  Satuit  Brand  of 
Canned  Vegetables,  packed  at  the  Satuit 
Kitchens  by  loyal  women  of  Scituate,  Mass.? 


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25 


If  so,  you  will  be  interested  to  know  that 
one  of  those  loyal  women  is  Mildred  Pierce 
Fuller,  '06. 

Alma  Shepherd  has  mo.ved  from  her  New 
Hampshire  home  and  is  now  living  in  Mans- 
field, Mass.  Alma  has  been  much  interested 
in  the  farm  of  considerabl-e  size  connected 
with  her  new  home  and  has  worked  daily  in 
the  fields. 

Margaret  Mclntyre  has  had  her  own  farm 
garden  this  last,  season. 

Mae  Chan  Lam  writes  of  her  vegetable  gar- 
den in  the  backyard  of  her  home  in  which, 
she  says,  she  raised  tomatoes,  green  pep- 
pers, string  beans,  peas,  and  Chinese  vege- 
tables. "They  all  grew  very  fine  and  I 
have  preserved  a  lot  of  tomatoes  for  the 
winter." 


with  high  ceilings  and  great  windows.     It  is 
on  a  hill  overlooking  the  sea." 

Julia  Anderson  Willems,  '94. 


BACK  FROM  MARKET 


"My  husband  just  back  from  early  morn- 
ing market  with  800  pounds  of  vegetables, 
eggs,  etc.,  in  the  car.  Our  car,  bought  just  a 
month  before  the  war,  has  carried  all  the  pro- 
visions, including  live  pigs,  for  our  family  of 
from  160  to  180  people  from  Bayonne  where 
we  do  our  marketing,  about  8  miles  from 
the  Hospital.  The  chateau,  as  you  see,  is 
very  ugly  but  is  wonderfully  adapted  for 
hospital    uses.       The    rooms    are    enormous, 


LETTERS  FROM  SOUTHERN  FRANCE 


"Your  checks  sent  in  April  (by  the  French 
Department)  have  wandered  but  where  could 
they  have  wandered  to  go  such  weeks  to  get 
here —  How  good  of  the  girls  to  give  us  a 
share  in  their  war  funds.  I  am  sure  that  I 
need  not  tell  you  how  welcome  every  bit  of 
help  is  and  how  grateful  we  are  for  it.  With 
the  constantly  mounting  prices  in  all  food  and 
supplies  and  our  always  over-crowded  hospi- 
tal our  expenses  are  tremendous  and  have 
doubled  since  specializing  for  tubercular  cases. 
In  spite  of  their  being  so  helpless  and  many  of 
them  so  very  ill,  we  expect  to  cure  them,  or 
many  of  them,  and  to  arrest  the  disease  with 
others.  We  have  been  so  wonderfully  helped 
by  our  friends  with  funds  and  I  cannot  find 
words  to  thank  you  for  those  who  think  of 
our  boys  arid  send  in  the  welcome  checks. — Au- 
gust 4, — I  want  to  send  my  thanks  at  once  for 
the  generous  gift  sent  by  the  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation. We  are  so  grateful  for  all  help  and 
all  additions  to  our  fund  are  hailed  with  joy 
and  thanksgiving. 

"I  wish  you  could  see  the  enthusiasm  here 
for  our  American  boys.  All  France  is  prais- 
ing them  and  they  are  doing  such  splendid  work 
at  the  front,  so  simply  and  directly  and  brave- 
ly doing  what  is  expected  of  them.  It  is  won- 
derful, but,  oh,  the  tragedy  of  it. — We  are  all 
coming  close  to  each  other  in  this  sad  time  of 
seeming  hate  and  horror  and  out  of  it  will  come 
a  better  understanding  to  us  all  of  the  brother- 
hood of  man  eventually  even  with  those  who 
are  now  our  enemies. 

"I  shall  have  to  ask  you  to  be  my  messenger 
to  the  members  of  the  Alumnae  Association. 
Please  make  them  understand  how  deeply  we 
appreciate  their  help.  Always  with  love  and 
thanks  for  your  interest  in  our  boys." 

Julia  Anderson  Willems,  '94. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


PRE-VICTORY  NOTES 


Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  F.  Elwood  Allen  are 
receiving  congratulations  on  the  birth  of  their 
daughter.  Mrs.  Allen  is  our  Dot  Stewart  and 
roommate  of  Gertrude  Allen.  Her  husband 
entered  the  service,  reconstruction  work,  as 
a  private  and  has  been  promoted  to  second  lieu- 
tenant. They  are  stationed  at  present  at  Otis- 
ville,  N.  Y. 

Florence  Bell  has  two  brothers  in  the  ser- 
vice, Second  Lieutenant  Hollis  W.  Bell,  U.  S. 
Proving  Grounds,  Aberdeen,  Md.,  and  Second 
Lieutenant  Randolph  E.  Bell,  102nd  Field 
Artillery,  A.  E.  F. 

Cora  B.  Stone  and  Ellen  S.  Robinson  have  a 
brother  in  the  Medical  Corps,  Post  Hospital, 
Fort  Strong. 

Mrs  Frederick  Shepard  (Annie  Bartlett)  of 
East  Derry,  N.  H.,  is  a  Lasell  girl  and  also  the 
New  England  Chairman  of  the  General  Fed- 
eration War  Victory  Committee.  Her  three 
sons  are  all  lieutenants  in  the  United  States 
Armv. 


FOREST  FIRE 


Mrs.  Barris  very  kindly  shares  with  our 
readers  a  letter  received  from  Miss  Nelson, 
formerly  a  member  of  our  home  economics 
faculty,  from  Superior,  Wisconsin,  under  date 
of  October  24. 

"That  Saturday  at  three  o'clock  it  looked 
as  if  we  were  by  a  seething  furnace  and  the 
natives  said — "forest  fires  up  on  the  range."  By 
six  a  person  hardly  dared  venture  outside  for 
there  was  a  regular  hurricane,  carrying  with  it 
cinders,  ashes  and  dirt.  Tired  from  a  teach- 
ers' convention  of  the  previous  two  days  I 
went  to  bed  anxious  but  with  the  satisfaction 
that  the  natives  were  not  over-anxious. 

"The  next  morning  at  6.30  I  was  called  to 
the  phone  to  come  over  to  the  Commercial  Club 
and  help  care  for  the  refugees.  Twenty-eight 
towns  in  all  were  destroyed,  one,  a  place  of 
nine  thousand  inhabitants  was  all  burned  but 
seven  houses.     The  wind  was  travelling  sixty 


miles  an  hour  and  the  fire  fifteen;  so  it  w; 
upon  the  people  before  they  realized  it.  A 
any  rate,  I  was  over  to  the  Club  in  a  short 
time  and  worked  until  four  o'clock  the  next 
morning,  slept  until  seven  and  was  back  at 
eight.  That  afternoon  I  answered  a  call  for 
First  Aiders  out  to  St.  Mary's  hospital.  In- 
stead of  First  Aid  it  was  real  nursing.  They 
had  so  many  burned  patients  they  couldn't 
pretend  to  take  care  of  them.  I  was  put  up  on 
the  fourth  floor  emergency  Ward,  five  of  the 
worst  cases  were  there  and'  died  that  night. 
I  stayed  there  until  ten  and  then  went  back 
the  next  day.  I  had  the  care  of  two  special 
pneumonia  cases  neither  of  whom  were  ex- 
pected to  live,  but  they  are  coming  on  fine. 

"Superior  has  housed,  fed,  clothed  and  mon- 
eyed seven  thousand  refugees  and  Duluth  five 
thousand  or  more.  The  fires  have  been  sup- 
posed to  have  been  set  as  S.  Superior  has  been 
afire  a  number  of  times.  Superior  has  the 
largest  coal  and  iron  ore  docks  in  the  world 
three  ship  yards  and  the  most  elevator  room  o 
the  lakes,  so  it  is  worth  while  trying  to  d< 
stroy." 

1917  Reunion 


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The  class  of  1917  had  its  first  reunion 
luncheon  at  the  Copley  Plaza  in  Boston  on 
June  10th.  There  were  twenty-seven  pres- 
ent. The  luncheon  was  daintily  served  in 
the  State  Dining  Room. 

MENU 

Little  Neck  Clams,  on  the  half  shell 

Chicken  with  French  fried  potatoes 

Endive   and   pimento    salad 

Surprise  cakes  and  Cafe  noir 

Custard  Mousse 

Good  natured  bantering  and  bits  of  news 
passed  around  the  table,  class  spirit  and  the 
spirit  of  the  beloved  Alma  Mater  were  much 
in  evidence. 


The  Minnesota  Lasell  Club 


Alleda    Burnett   writes   of   the   doings   of  1 
the  Minnesota  Club.    Since  our  annual  meet- 
ing in  October,  1917,  we  have  had  two  in- 


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formal  afternoons  and  the  annual  meeting  of 
1918.  The  first  afternoon  was  in  July  at 
Dorothy  Stroud's  in  Minneapolis.  It  was 
a  surprise  shower  for  Marion  Joslin  who 
was  to  be  a  bride  in  August.  Each  one 
brought  gifts  in  blue  or  wrapped  in  blue  so 
we  could  be  true  Lasellites.  '  Our  second 
afternoon  was  the  first  of  October  at  the 
bride's  home,  Mrs.  Marion  Joslin  Oppen- 
heimer  and  we  were  pleased  to  have  as  our 
guest  Miss  Harriett  Scott  '94  of  Brookline, 
Mass.  She  was  visiting  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Merrill.  She  very  kindly  gave  us  an  inter- 
esting talk  of  her  travels  in  California  and 
told  us  of  her  meeting  with  Dr.  Bragdon. 

On  October  twenty-ninth  we  had  our  an- 
nual business  meeting  and  luncheon  at  the 
new  St.  Paul  Athletic  Club.  The-  St.  Paul 
members  were  anxious  for  us  to  see  the 
New  Club  and  we  were  delighted  to  be  chap- 
eroned through  this  beautiful  Club  House. 
Seventeen  members  were  present  and  had  a 
most  enjoyable,  informal,  good  Lasell  time. 
Members  present :  Katherine  Wheeler,  Mar- 
guerite Owen,  Edna  Christensen,  Emma 
Christensen,  Alleda  Burnett,  Mary  Pierson 
Willius,  May  Emery  Yale,  Helen  Benson 
Lofgren,  Dorothy  Chaffee  Stroud,  Marion 
Joslin  Oppenheimer,  Eleanor  Warner  Sals- 
bury,  Mary  Potter  McConn,  Elizabeth 
House  MacMillan,  Myra  Schofield  Magnu- 
son,  Josephine  Edgerton  Stein,  Mrs.  Ber- 
mond,  Ruth  Sykes  Bloch. 

The  new  officers  are: 

President,  Mrs.  Marion  Joslin  Oppenheimer  '12. 
Vice-President,  Mrs.  May  Emery  Yale. 
Secretary,  Mrs.  Helen  Benson  Lofgren. 


The  Chicago  Lasell   Club 


The  Chicago  Club  sends  out  a  very  dainty 
club  list  with  cover  of  Lasell  blue.  It  has 
a  membership  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-nine 
members  and  we  note  with  pleasure  that  the 
honorary  president  is  Guy  M.  Winslow, 
Ph.  D. 


Pure,  delicious, 
wholesome 
A  well  made  cup  of  | 

BAKER'S  COCOA 

is  a  larpe  part  of  a 
£ood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition, very  little 
waste,  and  its  use 
saves  other  roods. 

TRADE  /1APftO/»  Et/EfiY  PACKAGE 

"VsALTER  BAKER&  CO.  Ltd. 


ESTABLISHED  17SO 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 
Pemberton  7   Square 

BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


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at  our  aljop,  tuijere  %g  mill  futb  a 
full  aaaortmrnt  nf  aeaanttahl?  flnuro-a 
at  rpaanttahle  ptxtm. 
®lj?  aalrapeopl?  are  ariiafa  tuljn  are 
reahg  tn  augaeai  anmrtJjing  "fctflfemtf 
in  rnmbinatintta  for  baakrta,  bou- 
nupta,  rnraagta,  rtr. 

fflljarne  arrmmta  for  all  stubmiz  an- 
luiteb. 

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Srammt  Btvtst,  Instort,  JHaaa. 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles  , 

BOOTS 
SHOES 

PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for    those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 

attin  3\xt& 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,    90    and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 
Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres" 

C.  H.  dimming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone   1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  ttaken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone    Richmond    1647,     1648 

ALBERT    P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established   1840 
Store  77-79  Sudbury  St.  Boston,  Mass. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


SKIRTS  — Specially  Priced 


Smart  plaid  skirts  in  black  and 

white  and  navy  and  white.  Box 

plaited  model  with  belt.  Special 

$19.50 

Plaid  skirts  in  all    the  new- 
est  color   combinations,    up-to- 
date  model  with  belt.     Special 
$15.00 

Serge  skirts,  new  fall  and  win- 
ter models,  in  navy  and  black 
$16.50 

Wool  back  satin  skirts  in  navy, 
taupe  and  black,  finished  with 
pockets  and  belt  $19.50 


C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 


T.    E.    MOSELEY    CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model  in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.  Also  in  Black  or  Brown 

Calf   with    Buckskin   Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


Misses'     and     Young    Ladies' 
Suits,     Coats     and     Dresses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  Wear 

at  Popular  Prices 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 

Hfluietiarfr  Jlljarmarg 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 

AUBURNDALE 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


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BEACH   1561 

•  PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

"That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  da})" 

The  Boston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 
BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specialty 


ax  Brothers 

TZop/srs 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

GUjnto  l&mv& 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


PURE   PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipts 

Packed   in    Stone  Jars 

A.   T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78  Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 
Send  for  price  list   of  over  60   kinds 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
JHjarmarist 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 


Banjos 
Guitars    - 
Mandolins 


$10.00  to  $65.00 
8.00  to  75.00 
7.00  to       50.00 


Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and    Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -         $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.   Capodanno   &   Sons 

Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

Domestic  Fruits 

Confectionery,    Cigars 

and  Tobacco 

331  AUBURN  ST.,      AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 
Tel.  Con.    1275  N.  W. 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1907 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1 45 


TELEPHONES 
Richmond    883,  885 


RUDOLF  STOLAR 


R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 

Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New    Faneuil    Hall    Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

Mxxsxt  IpaLers 

2B  Park  St.,  Boston  Tel.  Haymarket  1 1 50 

Send     for     our     recent     catalogues.     Mail 

orders  filled   the  same   day    as   received. 

Music    sent    on    selection    if    desired. 


B^^   For 

1   afternoon 

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The    most     delicate     and      delicious    flavored 
chocolate    to   be    found    anywhere 


LASELL    LEAVES 


New  England's  Greatest  Store 

IS  FULLY  EQUIPPED  TO  SUPPLY 

STUDENTS'  REQUIREMENTS 

OF  PRACTICALLY  EVERY  KIND  AND  NATURE 


Wearing  Apparel  in  Unlimited  Assortments. 
Furniture,  Rugs,  Pictures,  Draperies,  Room  Ornaments. 

Books,  Music,  Writing  Materials,  Cameras,  Gift  Articles,  and  the  multitude  of 
other  things  School  and  College  Life  demands. 

All  at  prices  as  low  as  (or  lower  than)  can  be  found  anywhere  for 
like  quality  —  Free  Delivery  in  Massachusetts  of  any  purchase. 


Jordan  Marsh  Company 

Washington,  Avon,  Summer,  Bedford  and  Chauncy  Streets 


Boston 


5UMMER-ST. 
New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day- 
Diamonds  Combs  Fountain  Fens 
Watches                                    Aluminum  Hair  Ornaments     Brass  Goods 
Bracelet  Watches                       Roman  Pearls  Opera  Glasses 
Platinum  Jewelry                      Cameo  Brooches                       Chafing  Dishes 
Green  Gold  Jewelry                  Vanity  Cases                               Percolators 
Gold  Pocket  Knives                  Doreen  Boxes                             Parisian  Ivory 
Gold  Pencils                             Photo  Frames                           Ebony  Goods 
Silver  Goods                             Leather  Goods                         Panel  Minors 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 

Our    Watch    and    Jewelry     Repair     Departments    do   the   best 
work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving   Department 

Plate   and    100  Visiting   Cards,    Script     $1.75 
Plate   and     50  Visiting    Cards,  Old  Eng.  $2.75 


MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON 


AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


1 6 1   Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


OSTON* 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


21  West  St. 
Tel.  Beach  952 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


A  Linen  Store 
for  Over  100  Years 


At  all   times,  you  can  most  adequately  satisfy  at  "The 
Boston  Linen  Stores"  all  your  needs  in 


Linens 

Towels 

Sheets  and  Cases 

Blankets 

Handkerchiefs 

Veilings 


Wash  Goods 
White  Goods 
Laces 
Neckwear 
Art  Embroideries 
Yarns  and  Knit 
Goods 


Newness,  distinctiveness,  dependable  quality  and  moderate 

price  characterize  every  purchase 

Mail  Orders  Receive  Careful  Attention 

T.  D.  Whitney  Company 

West  Street  BOSTON         Temple  Place 


Let  us  \novo  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Here  You  Pay  No  Fee 

GO  TO  lawyer  or  doctor  for  advice  and  you  rightly 
expect  to  pay.  Come  to  us  for  advice  and  it  costs 
you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
what  wrong.  You  may  follow  their  advice  or  not.  Cost 
is  the  same  — nothing.  Just  now  they  are  actively  engaged 
in  helping  plan  Fall  house-furnishings. 

JOHN   H.  PRAY  &  SONS  CO. 

646  Washington  St.,   Opposite  Boylston  St.,  Boston 


Myer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and  Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


Tailored  Suits 
Tailored  Coats 
Tailored  Hats 
Tailored  Waists 


Riding    Clothes 


Or^xnrno^n.Tor~r\er  , 

THE  •  SERVICE  •  STORE. 


fkSELL   £EAVE5 


Vol.  XXXXIV         LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  NOVEMBER,  1918 


No.  2 


Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
Entered  as  second-class  matter  at  the  Boston,  Mass.,  Post  Office. 
Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rate  of  postage  provided  for  in  Section  1103,  Act  of  October  3, 1917,  authorized  on  October  28, 1918. 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business  Manager 
DOROTHY  HOPPER 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES   O'BRIEN 

Subscription  Editor 

EDITH   VANCE 

Assistant 

Local  Editors 

CAROLIE  ABRAMS 

VIRGINIA  QUARLES 

Assistant  Editor 

DOROTHY  BALCH 

FRANCES   HEATH 

Literary  Editor 
MARY   HOPKINS 

Joke  Editor 
PRISCILLA  ALDEN 

Assistant 
KATHERINE   RICE 

Art  Editors 
MERCIE  NICHOLS 
LEILYA  BARKMAN 

Exchange  Editors 
SARAH   HOPKINS 
DOROTHY  HALL 

TERMS,  in  Advance:  One  Copy,  one  year,  (including  postage),  $1.00.     Single  Copies,  15  cents. 


CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

An  Interesting  Puzzle  C.  Evans  5 

An  American  Soldier V.  Quarks  5 

The  Singing  School H.  Morrison  6 

Killed  in  Action E.  Vance,  F.  O'Brien  7 

EDITORIAL 9 

LOCALS 10 

SCHOOL  ROSTER 12 

WOODLAND  PARK  SCHOOL 14 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 15 

PERSONAL     16 

COLLEGE  AND  UNIVERSITY  NOTES   18 

JOKES 19 

EXCHANGES 21 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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AN  INTERESTING  PUZZLE 


It  lies  before  me  on  the  table — interesting 
indeed,  and  very,  very  puzzling.  That  is 
the  difficulty. 

It  is  black  and  white  and  about  four  inches 
long  and  three  and  a  half  inches  wide. 
Around  the  edge  and  through  the  middle 
there  is  an  allowance  of  white  that  looks 
good  to  me  as  it  is  easily  constructed.  How- 
ever, the  black  pieces  demand  more  attention. 
I  take  up  a  little  piece  a  fraction  of  an  inch 
long,  turn  it  over,  examine  it  very  minutely 
and  lay  it  down  as  I  think  best.  This  I  re- 
peat about  one  hundred  times,  sometimes 
cutting  pieces  up  and  separating  them  to 
make  all  fit. 

The  result  is  usually  a  disjointed  conglom- 
eration that  would  greatly  have  shocked  its 
originator.  It  is  a  broken  mass  giving  only 
a  vague  idea  of  something.  To  keep  it  from 
entirely  falling  to  pieces  I  string  it  on  the 
very  unreliable  cord  of  common  sense.  The 
resulting  shaky  piece  of  architecture  now 
passes  under  the  highly  respectable  name  of 
"A  Caesar  Lesson".  C.  Evans. 


AN  AMERICAN  SOLDIER. 

Even  an  influenza  epidemic  has  its  ad- 
vantages, if  you  may  credit  the  small  boys 
whose  schools  were  closed  during  that  pe- 
riod. For  two  whole  days  Bruce  had  glo- 
ried in  having  nothing  to  do — but  at  times 
even  luxurious  idleness  palls.  And  this  was 
the  state  of  affairs  on  the  third  morning  of 
vacation.     The   four  boys  were  in   Bruce's 


yard  and  were  discussing  their  plans,  or 
rather  lack  of  plans,  for  the  day.  For  a  time 
they  watched  the  gardener  digging  a  new 
bed  down  by  the  wall.  Several  suggestions 
were  made,  but  each  was  vetoed,  and  life 
was  beginning  to  become  a  wee  bit  monoto- 
nous, when  Donald  suggested  that  they  play 
war.  Now,  why  hadn't  some  one  thought  of 
that  before?     Splendid! 

Soon  Bruce  announced  that  they  would 
use  the  new  flower  bed  for  a  trench.  The 
idea  was  greeted  with  loud  applause,  and 
for  a  time  all  four  boys  were  busy  digging. 
Suddenly  Allen  dropped  his  spade  and 
wanted  to  know  who  were  going  to  be  Ger- 
mans. This  caused  a  heated  argument,  but 
was  quickly  settled,  nevertheless,  when 
Bruce  announced  in  a  firm  voice  that  it  was 
his  yard  and  he  would  decide  who  would  be 
what !  Then  the  digging  went  ahead.  All 
the  afternoon  the  boys  were  busy,  digging, 
running  in  and  out  of  the  house  for,  and 
with,  blankets,  matches,  boards,  candles — 
everything  they  could  possibly  carry  out 
without  Bruce's  mother's  seeing  them. 
Everything  was  in  readiness  by  dinner  time, 
and  the  battle  was  set  for  the  next  morning. 

But  the  next  morning  brought  new  trou- 
bles ;  it  was  raining, — raining  in  that  won- 
derful trench,  and — worse  luck — on  the 
smuggled  blankets.  To  most  people  this 
might  not  seem  such  a  serious  matter,  but 
to  Bruce  it  was  little  short  of  a  catastrophe. 
He  spent  most  of  .the  morning  with  his  nose 
flattened  against  the  window-pane,  waiting 
for  the"  rain  to  cease,  and  mumbling  to  him- 


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self  all  the  while.  Allen  called  him  up  and 
they  discussed  the  matter  from  all  angles, 
but  got  no  further  than  deciding  that  Billy 
and  Donald  should  be  the  Germans. 

By  noon  it  had  cleared  up,  and  the  four 
boys  were  out  looking  over  the  remains  of 
their  trench.  Donald  had  an  older  brother 
in  France,  so  that  he  had  a  less  hazy  idea 
of  war  than  the  other  three.  He  suggested 
that  they  could  do  very  well  with  a  muddy 
trench,  because  that  would  be  far  more  like 
real  war.  This  seemed  a  splendid  idea,  and 
after  a  little  argument  when  Donald  and 
Billy  objected  to  being  Germans,  the  war 
was  on. 

Billy  and  Donald  charged  upon  the  val- 
iant Americans,  holding  the  trench  at  great 
odds,  and  were  made  to  retire  only  because 
it  had  all  been  decided  that  the  Germans 
were  to  be  "licked."  Then  for  a  while, 
Bruce  and  Allen  alternately  captured  the 
Germans  and  let  them  go,  there  must  be 
somebody  to  capture  in  war,  you  know.  All 
this  time,  the  four  were  steadily  getting 
dirtier,  and  consequently,  happier.  Allen, 
seeing  a  little  dog,  decided  that  it  would 
make  a  jim-dandy  Red  Cross  dog;  but  after 
a  few  futile  attempts  to  make  the  poor,  wet 
dirty  little  thing  play  right,  they  gave  up  in 
despair — they  didn't  want  an  old  Red  Cross 
dog  anyway.  At  last  all  of  their  attention 
was  centered  on  a  final  raid,  supposed  to  be 
at  midnight.  The  Germans  retired  behind 
the  garage,  while  the  brave  Americans,  ex- 
hausted by  the  great  hardships,  lit  their 
candles-  and  rolled  up  in  the  wet  blankets. 
All  four  had  saved  most  of  their  caps,  so 
that  their  guns  would  make  lots  of  noise, 
and  Bruce  had  a  few  large  firecrackers.  In 
the  excitement  of  the  fierce  battle,  he  forgot 
to  throw  one  of  the  firecrackers,  and  it  ex- 
ploded in  his  hand,  burning  him  severely.  A 
man  was  wounded — the  battle  was  off. 

The  other  three  went  home ;  Bruce  went 
into  the  house  trying  hard  not  to  cry.  May- 
be he  did  "sniff"  just  a  little, — anyway 
mother  came  into  the  bathroom  just  as  he 
was  trying  to  tie  up  his  hand  and  aslfed  why 


he  hadn't  called  her  to  fix  it  for  him.  Bruce, 
even  though  he  looked  suspiciously  tearful, 
drew  himself  up  proudly  and  said,  in  a  mosl 
aggrieved  manner,  "But,  Mother,  I  am  a  sol- 
dier— and  soldiers  have  to  do  for  them- 
selves." 

V.  Quarles. 


THE  SINGING  SCHOOL 


Two  years  ago,  when  I  was  visiting  in 
North  Carolina,  I  had  the  interesting  and 
unusual  experience  of  visiting  a  singing 
school.  The  school  house,  a  small  weather- 
beaten  building,  was  situated  at  the  foot  of 
a  mountain.  The  people  who  sang  were  the 
mountaineers,  who  came  from  miles  around 
for  the  eventful  day.  For  nearly  two  months, 
they  had  been  steadily  practising  and  at  last 
were  allowing  the  outsiders  to  come  and 
listen  to  their  long  prepared  for  sing. 

As  it  was  to  be  an  all-day  affair,  the  peo- 
ple brought  their  lunches.  When  we,  how- 
ever, were  at  last  ushered  into  one  of  the 
two  rooms  of  the  schoolhouse  and  told  to 
take  our  seats  with  the  others,  who  were 
sitting  stiffly  on  rows  of  hard  back- 
less wooden  benches,  we  did  not  feel  so 
eager  to  "watch  on"  for  two  long  sessions. 

On  looking  about,  we  discovered  that 
most  of  the  singers,  instead  of  being  in  the 
room  where  we  were,  were  in  the  room  op- 
posite, and,  curiously  enough,  there  they  re- 
mained throughout  the  entire  day.  The  rea- 
son for  this  was  quite  inexplainable  to  us. 
There  were  a  few  of  them,  however,  who 
were  scattered  about  the  room,  all  gayly 
dressed  in  their  best.  Many  of  the  men  wore 
suits  of  bright  blues  and  greens ;  the  women 
were  dressed  in  similar  taste,  with  bright 
colored  gowns  and  much  betrimmed  bon- 
nets. The  leader,  a  tall  ungainly  looking 
man,  was  unusually  spry  for  his  age.  He 
was  whirling  his  stick  about  even  before 
the  music  began. 

They  began  to  sing  at  about  nine  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  giving  one  song  after  an- 
other with  the  greatest  rapidity  until  lunch 


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time.  If  they  had  been  pieces  of  machinery 
they  could  not  have  kept  going  any  more 
steadily  or  swiftly.  Moreover,  as  not  all 
the  seventy  or  more  people  were  natural 
singers,  some  of  the  voices  disagreed ;  but 
one  quickly  got  used  to  the  discords  and  the 
flatting  of  notes. 

The  girl  who  played  the  organ,  although 
she  put  forth  great  efforts  to  be  heard,  made 
the  instrument  distinguishable  only  once  in 
a  great  while.  Undaunted  she  kept  on  as 
though  her  life  depended  upon  getting 
through  in  time  to  dash  quickly  on  to  the 
next  piece. 

As  humorous  as  all  this  seemed  to  us,  still 
we  could  not  but  pity  these  mountaineers, 
or  "poor  whites"  as  they  are  often  called, 
who  live  such  narrow  lives.  Sometimes  in 
one  small  log  cabin  of  only  two  tiny  rooms 
two  families  live.  These  families  are  almost 
always  good-sized  and  one  can  easily  imag- 
ine what  unwholesome,  unlivable  condi- 
tions they  endure.  Moreover,  there  is  gen- 
erally no  furniture  other  than  a  table  and 
two  or  three  chairs.  The  beds  consist  of 
mattresses  laid  upon  the  floor.  It  is  not 
strange  that  it  seemed  a  wonderful  thing  to 
be  able  to  get  away  from  these  small  shacks 
at  least  twice  a  week  and  come  to  the  sing- 
ing school.  Even  from  this  slight  diversion 
they  got  a  vast  amount  of  pleasure,  as  one 
could  tell  Dy  watching  them  as  they  sang. 

It  was  of  great  interest  to  me  to  have  a 
chance  to  go,  because  I  had  so  often  heard 
of  mountain  whites.  I  certainly  found  out 
that  down  there  in  Carolina  may  be  found 
one  of  the  best  chances  possible  to  lend  real 
help  to  a  worthy  people.  H.  Morrison. 


KILLED  IN  ACTION 


"We  have  moved  again,  and  despite  rain 
and  mud,  have  been  on  the  road  for  the  last 
five  nights,  as  well  as  for  a  part  of  the  day- 
light hours  also.  At  one  time,  out  of  twenty- 
nine  hours,  we  had  only  three  hours'  sleep, 
so  you  see  we  kept  humping  right  along. 
But     at     last,     thank     goodness,     we     have 


reached  the  front-line  trenches,  and  all  we 
have  to  do  now  is  to  rest  in  our  dugouts, 
and  await  orders. 

"You  might  suppose  that  it  would  be  im- 
possible to  sleep  up  here  at  the  front,  but  it 
doesn't  bother  most  of  us.  The  other  morn- 
ing I  went  to  'church'  and  although  it  was 
only  a  rude  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hut  behind  the  lines, 
its  atmosphere  of  quietness  was  a  great  re- 
lief, believe  me,  from  the  terrific  strain  of 
the  front.  When  I  come  home  again,  I  shall 
need  no  urging  Sunday  mornings.  Now, 
Mother,  I  need  a  little  'bunk  fatigue,'  so  au 
revoir. 

"With  deepest  love  to  you,  Dad,  and  of 
course  to  Peggy.  Richard." 

Peggy  folded  the  letter  and  handed  it 
back  to  the  boy's  mother.  They  were  seat- 
ed in  front  of  a  blazing  open  fire,  to  which 
Mr.  Stanford  had  just  added  fresh  logs.  It 
was  Thanksgiving,  and  the  snow  had  been 
falling  all  day.  Just  two  months  ago  today 
the  name  of  Richard  Stanford,  Peggy's  fi- 
ance, and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanford's  only  son, 
had  stared  heartlessly  at  them  from  the 
long  casualty  list  of  the  newspaper.  The  re- 
port from  Washington,  later  received,  read 
that  Lieutenant  Richard  Stanford  had  been 
killed  in  action.  That  seemed  now  a  long,  sad 
time  ago ;  and  just  recently  the  whole  coun- 
try had  been  carried  completely  off  its  feet 
by  the  wave  of  enthusiasm  resulting  from 
the  glorious  peace  news.  For  most  people, 
after  the  dreadful  four  years  of  war,  this 
Thanksgiving  was  indeed  a  day  of  thanks,  of 
deep,  deep  gratitude.  But  withwhatacloudof 
heartbreaking  sadness  had  it  been  darkened 
for  the  Stanfords  and  for  poor  little  Peggy ! 
This  house  on  whose  service  flag  one  gold 
star  shone  out  so  bravely  lacked  the  cheery 
presence  of  the  gay  hearted  boy,  who  had 
gone  away  so  confident  of  returning.  Yes, 
the  Stanfords  were  lonely  today,  although 
proud  too,  of  their  heroic  boy,  and  Peggy — ! 
That  dinner  which  had  tested  to  the  utmost 
the  power  of  each  of  the  three  to  keep  a  smil- 
ing and  happy  demeanor,  had  been  over  now 


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for  some  little  time,  and  the  two  women 
were  sitting  in  front  of  the  fire  knitting,  Mr. 
Stanford  thoughtfully  puffing  his  pipe  the 
while,  or  poking  the  fire,  sending  up  the 
chimney  throat  hosts  of  snapping  sparks. 
Mrs.  Stanford  had  given  Peggy  Dick's  last 
letter  to  read  for  the  hundredth  time. 

"Mother,"  spoke  the  girl,  forgetting  for 
the  moment,  her  mission  of  cheer  in  her 
grief,  "I  may  be  selfish  and  wicked  and  all 
that,  but  I  just  can't  see  what  we  have  to  be 
thankful  for — with  Dick  gone !"  and  she 
choked  at  the  words. 

"Why  child,  my  poor  child ! — Oh,  I  do 
understand,  I  felt  just  the  same  at  first,  but 
now, — why  I'm  proud  of  my  gold  star  in 
spite  of  my  mother-longing  for  my  boy." 

"Yes — yes  I  know !"  returned  Peggy. 
"But  we  should  have  been  just  as  proud  if 
he  had  returned, — and,  oh,  so  much,  so  much 
happier !" 

"Of  course,  we  should,  dear,  but  they  all 
can't  return,  poor  lads,  and  we  are  only  one 
of  many  families  called  upon  to  make  the 
great  sacrifice." 

"You're  wonderful,  mother,  wonderful ! 
Your  loss  is  greater  than  mine,  and  yet  I  am 
the  one  who  is  complaining."  Peggy  laid 
her  hand  lovingly  on  Mrs.  Stanford's  shoul- 
der. 

"Naturally,  dear,  I  can  bear  my  grief  bet- 
ter ;  I  am  older,  and  life  teaches  us  many 
lessons  of  submission  and  the  duty  of  cour- 
age. And  with  these  come  also  a  reward  of 
quietness  and  strength.  In  these  days  youth 
is  put  to  a  severe  test,  but  you  won't  fail, 
dear,  and  I'm  sure  you  will  yet  be  happy." 

Peggy  rose,  her  eyes  misty,  and  went  to 
the  window.  "It  is  still  snowing — and  al- 
most time  for  Dad  to  be  coming  for  me,"  she 
said.  Then  after  a  pause,  added,  "I  believe 
I  hear  him  coming  now.  I  hadn't  realized 
how  late  it  is.  I  am  so  glad  I  came  today, 
mother.  Glad  even  though  the  day  has 
been  so  hard." 

"Don't  hurry  away  immediately,  dear ; 
perhaps  your  father  would  like  a  cup  of  tea 


to  warm  him.     Robert,  open  the  door  for 
Mr.  Winthrop,"  she  said  to  her  husband. 

"Oh !  let  me  go !"  cried  Peggy,  and  running 
to  the  door  she  listened  to  crunching  foot- 
steps coming  up  the  path,  yet  she  did  not 
open  the  door  until  she  heard  the  firm  tread 
on  the  porch. 

"Come  in,  Dad!  Are  you  freezing?"  And 
Peggy  swung  the  door  wide  open.  It  was 
not  her  father.  Instead  there  entered,  shak- 
ing the  snow  from  his  coat  the  figure  of  a 
large,  sturdy,  khaki-clad  man. 

"Why,  it's  Dick !"  sobbed  Peggy,  as  she 
was  suddenly  clasped  in  those  swift-enfold- 
ing arms.  Her  smothered  cry  reached  Mrs. 
Stanford  in  the  cozy  firelit  room.  Half  ris- 
ing, and  with  a  look  of  bewilderment,  she 
repeated  the  words — "Why  it's  Richard!" 
But  her  strength  failed  her  and  she  sank 
weakly  back  into  her  chair,  but  hardly  be- 
fore her  son  was  at  her  side. 

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NOVEMBER  ELEVENTH 


"A   thousand   whistles  break   the  bonds   of 
sleep 
With  swift  exultant  summons  wild  and 
shrill : 
Impassioned  tongues  of  flames  toward  heav- 
en leap 
To  tell  us  peace  has  come.     The  guns 
are  still. 

A  thousand  flags  have  blossomed  in  the  air 
Like  poppies  in  a  garden  by  the  sea. 

Beyond  the  eastern  hills  a  golden  flare 

Foretells  the  day  that  broke  on  Calvary. 

Long-darkened  Liberty  uplifts  once  more 
Her  torch  on  Belgium,  Poland  and  Al- 
sace 
And   Flanders — on  each  desecrated   shore. 
Slow  dawns  the  sun ;  and  on  my  moth- 
er's face 
The  look,  I  think,  that  Mary  must  have  worn 
In    Galilee   on   Resurrection   morn." 

Ex. 


"You  can  if  you  will."  Any  one  of  us  who 
has  been  inclined  to  doubt  the  truth  of  this 
statement  can  certainly  do  so  no  longer.  Dur- 
ing the  recent  drive  throughout  the  country  for 
the  seven  war  charities,  Lasell  was  not  left  out. 
A  committee  chosen  from  among  ourselves 
fixed  a  goal.  They  aspired  so  high  that  when  the 
amount  was  announced,  many  were  doubtful 
of  ever  reaching  it.  The  scheduled  day  ar- 
rived. By  noon  things  were  not  going  as  well 
as  was  expected.  Everyone  realized  it  and 
only  then,  did    people    begin    really    to    give. 

Once  roused,  however,  they  gave  until,  by 

nightfall,   Lasell  had  gone  considerably  over 

the  top.     Now  the  seemingly  impossible  was 

accomplished.     The  goal  was  high,  to  be  sure, 

but  it  had  to  be  reached,  and  it  was.     Why 

not  apply  this   to    all    our   work — and   play? 

First  of  all  let  us  have  something  to  work  for, 

a  goal,  an  ideal  and  let  this  ideal  be  high,  as  the 

poet  says, 

"Too    low    they   build    who    build    beneath    the 
stars." 


It  takes  so  little  to  make  us  glad, 
Just  a  cheering  clasp  of  a   friendly  hand, 
Just  a  word  from  one  who  can  understand ; 
And  we  finish  the  task  we  long  had  planned 
And  we  lose  the  doubt  and  fear  we  had — 
So  little  it  takes  to  make  us  glad. 

Ida  G.  Morris. 


Spirit !  Everyone  all  over  the  world  is 
now  thinking  of  that  one  simple  word  and 
all  it  means.  Why  should  not  each  one  of 
us  think  of  it,  not  only  in  our  outside  life, 
but  also  in  this  every-day  life  at  school? 
Class  spirit  is  just  one  of  the  divisions  of  the 
great  thought  of  today,  but  how  essential  it  is ! 


Have  you  paid  your  war  pledge?  Why  wait 
until  March  ?     Do  it  now  ! 


The  "Old  Girls'  Dance  to  the  New"  and 
the  "Hallowe'en  Dance"  were  combined  this 
year  and  held  on  Nov.  2,  in  the  Gym.  The 
affair  proved  to  be  a  great  success, — and  the 
play  given  by  the  Seniors  aided  greatly  in 
making  it  so.  Its  cast  of  characters  was  as 
follows : — 


Stage  Manager 
Lord  Blessus 
Lady  Blessus 
Terpsichore 
Lord  Hamercy 
The   Fire 


Caroline  Kuhn 

Priscilla  Alden 

Helen  Webster 

Ethel    Ramage 

Phyllis  Rowe 

Georgina  Flattery 


The  Hole        Gertrude  Trafton,  Gertrude  Edwards 
The  Chair  Frances  Coombs 

The  Curtains  Mercy  Nichols,  Dorothy  Hall 

The  costumes  worn  by  the  girls  were  very 

effective.     Farmerettes,     aviators,     gypsies, 

and  ladies  of  the  revolutionary  period  were 

among  the  guests  entertained  by  Lasell  that 

evening. 


At  the  vesper  service  Nov.  3,  Mr.  Amos 
Wells,  editor  of  the  Christian  Endeavor 
World,  gave  a  thoughtful,  well-organized 
address  based  on  the  words  "Follow  Me." 
At  the  close  he  showed  how  we  may  follow 
Christ  through  reading  His  words,  through 
talking   with    Him,    through    hearing   what 


others  say  of  Him  !    Thus  shall  we  put  our 
lives  under  the  only  safe  leadership. 

Tuesday  evening,  November  5th,  the  sec- 
ond meeting  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  was 
held.  It  was  largely  attended  and  proved 
to  be  a  very  enthusiastic  as  well  as  interest- 
ing one.  Gertrude  Edwards  spoke  on  "Play- 
ing the  Game"  and  then  called  for  remarks 
from  Muriel  James,  Esther  Rodie,  Dorothy 
Balch,  Virginia  Ouarles  and  Carolie  Ab- 
rams.  They  all  responded  with  excellent 
messages.  Helen  Webster  sang  a  pleasing 
solo.    She  was  accompanied  by  Olive  Chase. 


In  place  of  the  usual  vesper  service  on 
Sunday  evening,  Nov.  10,  we  had  a  Rally 
meeting  for  the  United  War  Work  Cam- 
paign, at  which  the  Rev.  Mr.  Crane  of  New- 
ton, who  has  been  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in 
France  and  England,  spoke  to  us.  We  were 
made  to  realize  how  fortunate  we  are  to  be 
living  in  this  age  so  full  of  possibilities  and 
responsibilities.  Mr.  Crane  emphasized  the 
three  factors, — an  open,  active  mind,  an  un- 
selfish heart  and  an  indomitable  will — that 
will  be  needed  if  we  are  to  exert  the  right  in- 
fluence and  counteract  the  blindness  born  of 


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11 


prejudice.  We  must  see  the  infinite  oppor- 
tunities of  the  times  and  give  the  world  the 
right  conception  of  God. 


LEXINGTON-CONCORD  TRIP 


Peace  Day  was  appropriately  celebrated 
November  11  by  the  Lexington-Concord 
Trip.  About  eighty  girls  were  carried  to 
these  places  in  four  huge  auto  trucks.  At 
Lexington  the  historical  landmarks  were 
pointed  out  and  after  that  a  visit  was  made 
to  the  John  Hancock  House.  A  stop  was 
enjoyed  at  the  Apple  Farm  where  the  girls 
received  delicious  apples,  thoughtfully  se- 
cured by  Dr.  Winslow.  Then  we  went  on 
to  Concord  where  the  various  points  of  in- 
terest were  seen.  Lunch  was  eaten  on  the 
Old  Battle  Ground.  After  lunch  a  visit  was 
made  to  Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery  and  to 
Thoreau's  Hut.  The  trip  was  immensely 
enjoyed  by  all  and  gained  special  signifi- 
cance on  such  an  important  day  in  our  na- 
tional history. 


On  the  evening  of  Peace  Day,  Auburndale 
celebrated  with  a  large  parade  in  which  La- 
sell  participated.  The  girls  carrying  torches 
marched  in  a  body.  Another  feature  of  the 
parade  was  an  appropriate  float,  designed 
by  Mile.  LeRoyer  and  Miss  Mullikin,  repre- 
senting Victory  seated  between  Alsace-Lor- 
raine and  Columbia,  with  Belgium,  England, 
and  Italy  grouped  around  them.  The  girls 
representing  the  different  countries  were 
Helen  Files,  Helene  Westervelt,  Dorothy 
Balch,  Lillian  Doane,  and  Virginia  Ouarles. 


Many  Lasell  girls  were  fortunate  in  hav- 
ing the  opportunity  to  see  the  Victory  Day 
Parade  in  Boston  which  was  strictly  mili- 
tary and  the  greatest  demonstration  of  its 
kind  in  the  history  of  the  city.  The  troops 
which  made  the  most  impressive  part  of  the 
parade  came  from  forts,  cantonments  and 
naval  barracks  throughout  the  State.  The 
Red  Cross  was  represented  by  small  contin- 
gents from  organizations  of  Boston  and  vi- 


cinity. While  the  parade  was  passing,  the 
attention  of  the  spectators  was  attracted  to  a 
fleet  of  naval  airplanes,  which  came  from 
Chatham,  Cape  Cod,  totake  part  in  the  city's 
big  peace  and  victory  celebration. 


Christian  Endeavor  was  postponed  and 
instead  on  Tuesday  night,  Nov.  12,  a  mass 
meeting  was  held  for  the  "Drive,"  led  by 
Miss  Rand  and  Phyllis  Rowe.  Each  corri- 
dor came  with  its  poster  announcing  firm  in- 
tentions of  making  the  "Drive"  a  huge  suc- 
cess. During  the  evening  many  girls  spoke, 
urging  (if  urging  was  needed)  the  girls  to 
give,  and  make  "Lasell  go  over  the  top.  At 
the  close  of  the  meeting,  the  school  voted 
that  the  prize  for  the  best  poster  rightly  be- 
longed to  the  employees  of  the  school. 


In  spite  of  the  fact  that  Christian  Endeav- 
or was  held  at  the  early  hour  of  7  :15  Wed- 
nesday morning,  there  was  a  large  atten- 
dance. Phyllis  Rowe  led  and  Miss  Packard 
read  an  encouraging  message  from  Mr.  Mott 
concerning  the  campaign.  Miss  Packard 
also  led  in  prayer;  the  meeting  was  closed 
with  songs. 


Thursday  night,  Nov.  14,  Dr.  Leon  Vin- 
cent spoke  on  "England  and  Napoleon."  Dr. 
Vincent  offered  the  suggestion  that  the  ex- 
Kaiser  of  Germany  and  Napoleon  Bonaparte 
were  somewhat  alike  in  their  tastes  and  as- 
pirations. Luckily  for  the  world,  both  have 
come  to  grief.  Dr.  Vincent  pictures  Napo- 
leon as  the  man  of  dreams  and  genius,  rather 
than  as  the  mere  figure  of  history.  His  plans, 
his  preparations  for  seizing  England  read 
almost  as  the  present  day  aspiration  of  Wil- 
helm  of  Germany.  In  the  wars  of  the  pres- 
ent we  must  look  to  the  wars  of  the  past  for 
the  seed.  To  get  these  personal  memoirs 
and  pen  pictures,  we  must  turn  to  the  liter- 
ature of  the  time.  From  no  other  source 
could  we  know  of  Napoleon's  appearance, 
his  carriage,  his  dreams.  It  is  from  the  lit- 
erature of  a  country  that  we  learn  its  his- 
tory. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


On  Nov.  15  in  the  Studio  all  of  us  had  a 
chance  to  see  a  variety  of  war  posters.  Among 
these  were  some  familiar  ones  showing  ap- 
peals for  ship-builders,  for  conservation  of 
food,  for  fatherless  children  of  France ;  others 
boosting  liberty  loans,  war  savings  stamps,  and 
war  relief  funds.  Besides  these  there  were 
displayed  several  clever  French  posters  and 
one  large  one  from  Italy.  In  addition  to  the 
exhibit  of  posters,  there  were  some  pretty 
hand-decorated  Christmas  cards  on  sale,  in- 
teresting insignia  from  different  branches  of 
the  service,  and  several  "Ratintin  and  Nen- 
nette" — copies  of  those  dolls  ingeniously  made 
from  bits  of  string  and  yarn  by  the  French 
mothers  who  with  their  children  lived  in  cel- 
lars to  escape  the  horrors  of  war. 

A  modest  fee  of  five  cents  for  admission 
was  asked  and  twelve  dollars  was  thus  added 
to  the  Lasell  war  fund. 


The  vesper  service  on  Nov.  17  was  in  charge 
of  the  Missionary  Society.  The  president. 
Gertrude  Edwards,  introduced  as  the  speaker, 
Mr.  Moore  of  the  Morgan  Memorial  Church 
in  Boston.  He  showed  us  by  his  reports  and  by 
clear  stereopticon  views  some  of  the  helpful 
work  being  done  by  this  remarkable  Church 
for  All  Nations. 


On  Nov.  19,  Ruth  Watson  led  Christian  En- 
deavor meeting.  She  gave  some  good  ideas 
about  how  to  give  happiness  and  how  to  get 
it.  Helen  Webster  added  to  the  service  by 
her  singing:. 


The  Auburndale  Woman's  Club  shared  with 
Lasell  two  excellent  addresses  on  the  night  of 
their  annual  open  meeting.  Lieutenant  Lewis 
of  Canada  was  the  first  speaker.  In  a  'frank 
and  hearty  way  he  brought  clearly  before  us 
the  vigorous  fun  which  the  boys  get  even  from 
rough  hardships.  He  made  us  also  realize  the 
ghastly,  grim  experiences  in  trench  and  field 
which  the  allied  troops  have  been  meeting  so 
unflinchingly  during  the  past  four  years.  No 
one  could  fail  to  be  moved  by  the  plea  for  the 

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war  drive  with  which  his  speech  was  appro- 
priately closed. 

In  marked  contrast  with  Lieutenant  Lewis, 
but  no  less  impressive,  was  the  gracious  rep- 
resentative of  the  French  Red  Cross,  Mile. 
Pierrat.  In  exquisite  English  she  first  paid  a 
tribute  to  the  efficient  workers  in  the  American 
Red  Cross  throughout  her  country.  Then  with 
great  restraint  but  intense  feeling  she  told  of 
the  sufferings  of  the  women  and  children  in 
France  and  of  the  heavy  task  of  restoring  to 
them  some  sense  of  joy  in  life.  In  this  task 
we  may  have  some  share  through  the  work 
for  French  orphans  so  well  begun  two  years 
ago. 


WAR  WORK  DRIVE 


Lasell  went  over  the  top  in  the  United  War 
Work  Drive  with  a  total  of  $2115, — $115  over 
its  quota.  Pledges  were  made  by  the  facul- 
ty, the  students,  and  the  employees.  All  dur- 
ing the  day  Wednesday,  Nov.  13,  pledges  were 
received  at  the  booth  in  the  main  hall  and  the 
campaign  was  ended  in  the  evening  with  an 
auction  of  the  posters,  conducted  by  Caroline 
Kuhn  and  Phyllis  Rowe.  The  committee  for 
the  drive  consisted  of  Miss  Rand  for  the  facul- 
ty, Phyllis  Rowe  for  the  students  and  Miss 
Genn  for  the  employees.  Pledges  were  as  fol- 
lows :  Woodland  Park,  $26;  employees,  $180; 
faculty,  $436.50;  students,  $1353.25;  cash, 
$94.72;  and  War  Savings  Stamps,  $1325. 


SCHOOL  ROSTER 


Abbott,  Edith  M.,  Elmwood,  Conn. 

Abrams,  Carolie  B.,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Adams,  Frances  V.,  Castleton,  Vt. 

Adams,  Isabelle  L.,  Auburndale 

Aguirre     Cinta,     Concepcion,     Mexico    City, 

Mexico 
Alden,  Pris,cilla,  North  Weymouth 
Baer,  Margie  E.,  Lehighton,  Pa. 
Balch,  Dorothy  H.,  Marshalltown,  la. 
Balcom,  Helen  G.,  Corning,  N.  Y. 
Barkman,  Leilya  K.,  Morristown,  N.  J. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


13 


Bass,  Frances  E.,  Randolph,  Vt. 

Bassett,  Luella  E.  A ,  Southville 

Beaman,  Eleanor  H.,  Plymouth 

Beeche,  Aida  F.,  Brookline 

Beiermeister,  Ruth  D.,  Winthrop  Highlands 

Belden,  Lina  K.,  Bradstreet 

Bell,  Miriam  DeF.,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa. 

Berger,  Elizabeth  C,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Bigwood,  Elsie  A.,  Spencer 

Bragdon,  Hazel  M.,  York  Corner,  Me. 

Bregman,  Sylvia  J.,  Chicago,  PI. 

Briggs,  Christina  M.,  Voluntown,  Conn. 

Britton,  Isabel,  Burlington,  Vt. 

Brooks,  Helen  H.,  Gardner 

Broughton,  Ethel  E.,  Poultney,  Vt. 

Brown,  Doris  E.,  Lowell 

Burnet,   Gladys  MacC,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Burnham,  Dorothy  L,  Waltham 

Cabrera,  Maria  L.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Cabrera,  Rosenda,  Mexico  City,  Mex. 

Caine,   Mildred   G,   Brewer,   Me. 

Cameron,  Margaret  G,  Ottawa,  Ontario 

Campbell,  Cornelia  K.,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 

Carter,  Geraldine,  Reading 

Chandler,  Margaret  P.,  New  Gloucester,  Me. 

Chandler,  Mildred,  New  Gloucester,  Me. 

Chase,  Olive  L.,  Laconia,  N.  H. 

Cook,  Dorothy  M.,  Dorchester 

Coombs,  Frances,  Yarmouth,  Me. 

Crane,  Anna  E.,  Tippecanoe  City,  Ohio 

Crane,  Sarah  F.,  Burlington,  Vt. 

Crawford,  Doris  M.,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 

Crooks,  Elizabeth  F.,  Brockton 

Crowley,  Doris  G,  Winthrop 

Cullet,  Marion  B.,  Jonquiere,  Quebec 

Cushman,  Charlotte,  West  Newton 

Davidson,  Sue,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Davis,  Ruth  L.,  Sanford,  Me. 

Decker,  Helen  Van  W.,  Newport,  R.  I. 

Dennie,  Dorothy,  Newton  Highlands 

Doane,  Lilian  E.,  Montreal,  Quebec 

Dunlop,  Ruth  R.,  Framingham 

Durland,   Ruth,    Swampscott 

Eaton,  Marion  F.,  Youngstown,  N.  Y. 

Edgerly,  Janet  S.,  Bradford 

Edwards,  Gertrude  C,  Pottstown,  Pa. 

Evans,  Cornelia  S.,  Franklin,  Ohio 


Evans,  Leona,  Centerville,  Utah 
Files,   Helen   L.,   Brunswick,   Me. 
Fish,  Isabel  M.,  Merrimacport 
Flattery,  Georgina  K.,  Brookline 
Florence,  Martha  J.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Fogg,  May  P.,  Freeport,  Me. 
Fontaine,  Lillian  M.,  Fall  River 
Foran,  Mary,  Auburndale 
Forgie,  Katherine  L.,  Dorchester 
Freeman,  Mildred,  Winthrop 
Frost,  Ethel,  Central  City,  Colo. 
Fuller,  Irene,  Watertown 
Furbush,  Louise,  Brighton 
Greely,  Lydia  A.,  Needham 
Greene,  Elizabeth  H.,  Barrington,  R.  I. 
Griffin,  Freda  B.,  No.  Bloomfield,  Conn. 
Grimes,  Alice  E.,  Sterling,  111. 
Gustin,  Marjorie,  Somerville 
Hall,  Dorothy  C,  Swampscott 
Hamilton,  Florence  F.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Hannah,  Janet  MacD.,  Fitchburg 
Harding,  Florence  F.,  Mansfield 
Harding,  Gladys  R.,  Mansfield 
Harding,  Mabel  F.,  Lynnfield 
Hardy,  Marguerite  J.,  Huntington 
Hayden,  Ruth  D.,  Ventnor  City,  N.  J. 
Heath,  Frances,  Concord,  N.  H. 
Hersum,  Evelyn,  Cambridge 
Hills,  Ruth,  Newton  Highlands 
Hopkins,  Janis  R.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Hopkins,  Mary,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Hopkins,  Sarah,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Hopper,  Dorothy  M.,  Canonsburg,  Pa. 
Houser,   Marguerite   C,    Miami,    Fla. 
Hussey,  Marjorie  V.,  Augusta,  Me. 
Hutton,  Josephine  E.,  Denver,  Colo. 
Ingraham,  Deborah,  Augusta,  Me. 
James,    Muriel    D.,    Winthrop 
Jolles,  Ida  C,  Roxbury 
Keniston,  H.  Gladys,  Boston 
Kent,  Rosamond  K.,  Clifton  Heights,  Pa. 
Kessler,  Katharine,   Reading,   Pa. 
Kirkpatrick,  Helen  L.,  Portsmouth.  N.  H. 
Kittredge,  Julia  F.,  Dalton 
Kuhn,  Carolyn  E.,  Champaign,  111. 
Kuhn,  Florence,  Champaign,  111. 
Ladd,  Kathryn,  Yarmouth,  Nova  Scotia 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Lessler,  Florence  M.,  Tomkinsville,  Staten 

Island,  N.  Y. 
Louis,  Rosalie  B.,  Danville,  111. 
Lucas,  Gladys  V.,  Johnstown,  N.  Y. 
Lyon,  Bernice  S.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
McFarland,  Beulah,  Johnson,  Vt. 
McFarland,  Marion,  Johnson,  Vt. 
Mclntyre,  Madeline  W.,  Sharon,  Pa. 
McLaughlin,  Martha  I.,  Jamestown,  Pa. 
McMaster,  Esther  L.,  Jamestown,  Pa. 
MacMurray,  Jeannette  M.,  Provincetown 
Makowsky,  Ethel  M.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 
Manville,  Elizabeth,  Ansonia,  Conn. 
Marshall,  Hortense,  West  Newton 
Maxwell,  Dora,  Kobe,  Japan 
Melanson,  Jessie,  Swampscott 
Mendleson,  Norma,  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Morrison,  Hazel,  Melrose 
Morrow,  Hazel,  Aledo,  111. 
Moss,  Helen  W.,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. 
Mulholland,  Katherine  A.,  Malvern,  la. 
Nichols,  Mercie  V.,  Cohasset 
Nicholson,  Alice,  Dallas,  Texas 
Nordenstierna,    Ebba    E.    M.,    Woonsocket, 

R.  I. 
O'Brien,  Frances,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
O'Brien,  Helen  B.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
Orr,  Augusta  L.,  Winchendon 
Owen,  Marian  E.,  Milo,  Me. 
Parker,  Florence,  Springfield 
Patten,  Mildred  A.,  Rockville  Centre,  L.  I. 
Pearce,  Doris,  East  Milton 
Perley,  Margaret  C,  Lowell 
Perry,  Clara  C,  Brattleboro,  Vt. 
Perry,  Lois  M.,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Phelps,  Bertha  M.,  Ayer 
Phillips,  Alice  E.,  Jamaica  Plain 
Preston,  Helen  L.,  Amenia,  N.  Y. 
Prince,  Helen,  Madison,  Me. 
Quarles,  Virginia,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Ramage,   Ethel  E.  A.,  East  St.  Johnsbury, 

Vermont 
Rankin,  Julia  A.,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 
Rhoades,  Marjorie  D.,  Brockton 
Rice,  Katherine,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Robbins,  Marta  I.,  Fallston,  Md. 
Rodie,  Esther  P.,  Kingston,  N.  Y. 


Rogers,  Doris  E.,  Lynn 
Rosenfield,  Ruth  K,  Brookline 
Rowe,  Phyllis  D.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Sanborn,  Helen,  Springvale,  Me. 
Sanger,  Muriel,  Brookline 
Sheip,   Florence  M.,  Mobile,  Ala. 
Shekerjian,  Ruth,  Torrington,   Conn. 
Shidler,  Genevieve  M.,  South  Bend,  Ind. 
Skinner,  Marion  W.,  Toledo,  Ohio 
Slockbower,  Hazel  M.,  Clinton,  N.  J. 
Smith,  Virginia  A.,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 
Sprague,   Dorothy,   Wollaston 
Stephens,  Elizabeth  D.,  Rumford,  Me. 
Stewart,  Margaret,  Webster 
Sullivan,    Florence   V.,   Holyoke 
Swan,  Thelma  M.,  Newtonville 
Sweney,  Helene  L.,  Wellesley  Hills 
Tait,  Maude  I.,  Springfield 
Thompson,  A.  Elinor,  Amenia,  N.  Y. 
Tolman,  Ruth,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Trafton,  Gertrude  S.,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Tufts,  Katherine  C,   Montclair,  N.  J. 
Vance,  Edith  S.,  Pt.  Washington,  N.  Y. 
Van  Raalte,  Helen,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Wardle,  Ruth,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 
Watson,  Ruth   E.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Webber,  Marion  B.,  Dorchester 
Webster,  Helen  E.,  Wakefield 
West,  Dorothy,  Mobile,  Ala. 
West,  Laura  E.,  East  Holliston 
Westervelt,  Helene  E.,  South  Bend,  Ind. 
Weymouth,  Roma  H.,  North  Reading 
Weymouth,  Sibyl  F.,-  Orange 
White,  Doris,  South  Yarmouth 
White,  Miriam  H.,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Whitney,   Doris  G.,  Leominster 
Wieder,  Frances  A.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Williams,  Marion  B.,  Edgewood,  R.  I. 
Wilson,  Ethlyn  E.,  Carlisle 
Young,  Murlin  S.,  Southhold,  N.  Y. 


WOODLAND  PARK  SCHOOL 


Braithwaite,  Katherine,  Auburndale 
Brown,  Catherine,  Auburndale 
Brown,  Jane,  Auburndale 
Cabrera,  Inez  M.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


15 


Campbell,  Dorothy,  Scituate 

Cheng,  Evilda  N.,  Boston 

Clark,  Geraldine,  Maiden 

Cornell,  Cora  T.,  Derry,  N.  H. 

Daniels,  Elizabeth  A.,  Newton  Centre 

Dennison,  Clarice  M.,  Dorchester 

Faxon,  Eleanor,  Wellesley  Hills 

Hansen,  Barbara,  Auburndale 

Kirby,  Marion,  Auburndale 

McDonald,   Gwendolyn,  Ottawa,  Ontario 

Mueller,  Eva  L.  S.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Palmateer,  Helen,  Auburndale 

Palmateer,  Mary,  Auburndale 

Pomeroy,  Elizabeth,  Westfield 

Retan,  Elizabeth,  West  Newton 

Rice,  Rosamund,  West  Newton 

Savage,  Elizabeth,  Cohasset 

Schmidt,  Erna  H.,  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

Trueman,  Gladys  H.,  Cambridge 

Ufford,  Ruth,  Auburndale 

White,  Frances,  Auburndale 

Winslow,  Donald,  Auburndale 

Winslow,  Marjorie,  Auburndale 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 


The  Woodland  Park  children  enjoyed  .a 
very  pleasant  evening  on  Saturday,  Novem- 
ber 23d,  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Palmateer  and 
her  delightful  little  daughters.  Charades 
and  games  such  as  delight  every  child's 
heart  made  the  time  fly  all  too  quickly.  Mrs. 
Palmateer  is  the  Art  teacher  at  Woodland 
Park  and  the  children  always  look  forward 
to  the  interesting  surprises  that  she  brings 
for  the  hour  of  drawing. 

On  Saturday  afternoon,  November  23d, 
Elizabeth  Savage,  Erna  Schmidt  and  Gwen- 
dolyn McDonald  attended  the  piano  recital 
given  by  Raymond  Havens  at  Jordan  Hall 
in  Boston.  They  were  accompanied  by  Miss 
Chase,  who  helped  her  pupils  to  understand 
and  appreciate  the  work  of  the  young  and 
already  famous  pianist. 

The  first  piano  recital  of  Woodland  Park 
was  given  by  a  number  of  Miss  Chase's 
pupils  on  Friday  afternoon,  November  22d, 
at  four  o'clock.  The  guests  included  Dr.  and 


Mrs.  Winslow,  Miss -Potter,  and  the  moth- 
ers of  the  pupils  who  took  part.  Miss  Chase 
announced  the  officers  of  the  Cecilia  Club 
and  spoke  briefly  of  the  object  and  benefit 
of  such  a  club  to  the  members.  The  recital 
represented  to  most  of  the  little  artists  their 
first  appearances  before  any  audience  larger 
than  the  family  circle  and  they  appeared  for 
the  most  part  quite  unconscious  of  strain  or 
embarrassment.  The  following  program  was 
presented.- 

Quotations   from   Schumann 

Pupils 

Hunter's    Song  Lynnes 

Arranged  for  six  hands 

Erna  Schmidt,  Elizabeth  Retan,  Miss  Chase 

Tyrolian   Dance  Heller 

Katherine   Braithwaite 
Dollie's  Waltz  Schmitt 

Gwendolyn  McDonald 
L'Avalanche 

Elizabeth   Savage 
March  of  the  Gnomes 

Marjorie  Winslow 
Romance  Rummel 

Elizabeth   Retan 
Duets — Three  Tiny  Tunes  Low 

Donald  Winslow,  Miss  Chase 

Over  the  Snow  Lynnes 

Mary  Palmateer 


Heller 
Orth 


Wee  Priscilla  came  to  school  one  day.  In 
Story-telling  time  Donald  chose  to  imperson- 
ate the  Monkey  of  the  story.  A  protest  im- 
mediately came  from  Priscilla — "I  don't  wart 
Donald  to  be  a  monkey."  She  was  only  con- 
soled when  assured  that  brother  would  be  only 
a  pretend  monkey ! 


On  November  20th  the  Cecilia  Club  was 
formally  organized.  This  club  is  formed 
primarily  for  the  pupils  studying  music  in 
the  school.  Any  such  pupil  is  eligible  to  be- 
come a  member — whether  a  member  of  the 
school  family  or  coming  in  for  special  work. 

The  officers  for  the  first  year  were  chosen 
as  follows :  President,  Caroline  F.  Chase ; 
Secretary,  Erna  Schmidt;  Treasurer,  Eliza- 
beth Retan. 

By  the  by-laws  of  the  club  the  President 
has  the  right  to  choose  a  member  of  the  club 

( Continued  on  page  22) 


Nellie  Woodward,  '15,  in  a  personal  letter 
to  our  Principal  reports  that  Florence  Evans, 
'15,  is  going  into  a  Nurses'  Training  School  at 
the  Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Sherman,  and 
Marion  Beach,  '16,  is  doing  the  same  thing  at 
Camp  Dix.  Also,  that  she  has  had  a  letter 
from  Sue  Tiffany,  '15),  reporting  steady  im- 
provement over  which  we  rejoice.  Evidently 
the  influenza  reached  its  climax  in  Denver, 
Colorado,  where,  according  to  Nell,  every- 
thing was  closed  up  for  five  weeks.  She  her- 
self is  a  busy  accountant  and  enjoying  her 
secretarial  work  very  much.  She  closes  her 
letter  with  this  interesting  word,  "Well,  I've 
had  quite  a  novel  experience  today.  I  voted ! 
And  a  straight  Republican  ticket,  too." 

Miss  Tuttle  has  shared  with  us  a  letter  from 
Carita  L.  Palmer.  She  intended  making  a 
trip  East  this  fall  but  her  plans  were  changed. 
We  hope  she  will  visit  us  soon.  She  de- 
clares she  often  dreams  of  Lasell  and  "Usually 
in  my  dream  I  am  standing  in  front  of  the 
mail  box  waiting  patiently  for  the  mail."  In 
recalling  her  Bancroft  chums,  Carita  writes 
Edna  Edwards  is  married  and  keeping  house 
and  confesses  "She  just  loves  it."  Eloise 
Bordages  is  in  New  York  and  Jeannette  is  a 
junior  at  the  University  of  Illinois.  While 
in  New  York  this  fall  she  saw  Mervelle  Gratz, 


'17,  and  Eloise  Bordages,  and  was  visiting 
with  Helen  Crane.  Adds  "I  often  go  to  Ur- 
bana,  Illinois,  and  always  meet  Josephine  Burt, 
'17,  and  Helen  Freeman  and  sometimes  Gladys 
Frazier."  It  is  four  years  since  Carita  was 
here  but  yet  she  very  properly  sends  her  sub- 
scription for  the  Lasell  Leaves.  She  is  at- 
tending a  business  college  and  taking  what  they 
call  the  Complete  Course.  It  looks  as  though 
this  young  Lasellite  is  fast  becoming  a  most 
efficient  "'Oman.  She  closes  with  personal 
greetings  to  Miss  True. 

In  a  letter  received  by  Dr.  Winslow  from 
Ruth  Straight,  '1  \  she  writes,  "It  has  pleased 
me .  greatly  to  1  -ceive  several  Lasell  and 
Woodland  Park  catalogs.  I  am  extremely  in- 
terested in  the  w<  ifare  and  progress  of  both, 
and  am  always  talking  'Lasell'  to  the  girls  who 
are  making  plans  'or  school.  I  am  certainly 
enjoying  the  experiences  of  teaching.  I  am 
teaching  French,  Latin,  Geometry,  and  Alge- 
bra in  the  Chase  County  High  School  at  Im- 
perial, Nebraska.  Please  give  my  best  wishes 
to  all  of  the  Lasell  'family'."  Something  to 
be  proud  of,  this  report  from  Ruth. 

Ruth  Burnap,  '17,  is  a  busy  business  woman. 
In  a  recent  word  to  our  Principal,  she  writes, 
"I  like  to  remember  my  school  days,  especially 
those  at  Lasell.     I  hope  to  come  back  soon 


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for  one  likes  to  keep  in  touch  with  their  school. 
My  time  is  somewhat  limited.  I  am  working 
in  an  office  and  find  the  work  very  interesting." 

Lasell  was  honored  recently  ,in  receiving  a 
call  from  Mrs.  Elvira  Libano  de  Court,  Vice- 
Principal  of  a  Girls'  High  School  in  Santiago 
de  Chile,  on  a  Chilean  Government  Educational 
Commission  to  the  United  States.  This  lady 
principal  has  a  school  of  some  eight  hundred 
young  women  and  is  enthusiastic  to  take  back 
to  them  the  latest  word  along  the  line  of  ad- 
vantages for  schools  of  this  standard. 

Florence  Harper,  '17,  we  learn  through  a 
note  f  ram  her  mother,  is  now  in  Puebla,  Mex- 
ico. She  is  teaching  and  expects  to  remain 
there  for  three  years.  Her  address  is  Insti- 
tute Normal,  Para  Senoritas,  Apartado  157, 
Puebla,  Mexico.  A  splendid  work  and  our 
best  wishes   follow  her ! 

Lasell  is  extending  its  most  tender  sympa- 
thy these  days  to  our  dear  Janet  Edgerly  and 
family  in  the  loss  of  her  oldest  sister,  an  in- 
fluenza victim.  Miss  Edgerly  was  a  graduate 
of  Smith  College  and  an  unusually  fine 
scholar  and  successful  teacher. 

Viola  Sullivan  and  Josephine  Florence,  our 
present  students  at  Lasell,  have  recently  been 
bereaved  in  the  death  of  their  brothers.  We 
extend  our  loving  sympathies  to  these  dear  girls 
and  their   families. 

Jessie  Shepherd,  '17,  reports  to  Dr.  Wins- 
low,  that  during  a  recent  visit  in  Philadelphia 
she  saw  Dorothy  Packard  and  Ruth  Magoun, 
'18.  She  found  Ruth  in  the  Infant  Depart- 
ment in  Wanamaker's  where  she  hopes  later 
to  be  their  assistant  buyer.  Jessie  was  look- 
ing forward  to  a  reunion  of  a  few  of  the 
Class  of  1917  the  following  week  during  her 
visit  to  New  Jersey.  She  is  taking  French 
and  finding  it  very  interesting  and  sends 
cordial  good  wishes  for  the  school  year. 

Mildred  Goodall,  '10,  and  her  father  were 
back  from  Washington  for  Thanksgiving. 
Mildred  writes  that  she  has  applied  for  a  posi- 
tion in  the  Red  Cross  Motor  Corps  and  hopes 
to  be  accepted. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  Weis  (Elizabeth  Haze- 


let)  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of  their  little 
son,  Paul  Deemer,  on  November  22d. 

Martha  Hazelet  Crooks  and  her  little  son, 
Johnnie,  are  guests  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Weis 
and  was  a  recent  visitor  at  Lasell.  Little  John 
is  a  lively  proposition  and  we  are  constantly 
regretting  that  Lasell  did  not  decide  to  become 
co-educational  so  that  we  could  capture  these 
dear  grandchildren,  boys  as  well  as  girls. 

Captain  Charles  Wagner  recently  spent  a 
week-end  with  his  parents  and  the  corps  of 
teachers  and  students  who  were  privileged  to 
hear  him  will  not  soon  forget  the  vivid  report 
of  his  personal  experience  and  the  interesting 
souvenirs  which  he  brought  from  the  war  cen- 
ter. 

Miss  Martha  Ransom,  Mrs.  Wagner's  sister, 
is  again  her  guest.  She  brings  us  word  direct 
from  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bragdon  and  their  family. 
We  are  not  surprised  to  hear  of  our  dear  Prin- 
cipal Emeritus'  continued  keen  interest  in  his 
local  church  and  his  Lasell. 

Barbara  Vail  Bosworth,  '05,  was  also  "back 
home''  recently  and  reports  that  during  the  ab- 
sence of  her  husband  in  camp  she  served  as 
Community  Cook  during  the  influenza  and  en- 
joyed the  work.  We  feel  sure  she  made  a 
great  success  of  it. 

Norma  MacMillan  is  this  winter  studying 
Music  in  Boston  but  finds  her  way  almost 
weekly  back  to  Lasell  and  generously  enter- 
tains the  girls  with  her  music. 

We  are  indebted  to  Miss  Heinrich  for 
some  very  interesting  news  which  has  come 
to  her  recently  in  letters  from  old  girls. 

Katherine  Katz  writes  from  Proctor,  Ver- 
mont, "I  am  having  a  long  vacation  on  ac- 
count of  the  influenza.  School  was  to  begin 
October  9th  but  now  the  date  is  fixed  No- 
vember 6th."  She  reports  a  lively  Hallow- 
e'en. Katherine  is  now  in  the  University  of 
Vermont.  We  wish  her  a  happy,  success- 
ful year. 

Edna  Mai  writes  from  Chicago.  She  has 
been  a  semi-invalid  for  a  while  but  we  are 
thankful,  not  seriously  ill.  She  regrets  that 
her  sister  Florence  did  not  come  to  Lasell,  in- 


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stead  decided  to  go  with  a  mate  of  hers  to  a 
southern  school.  Edna  recently  became  ac- 
quainted with  Hazel  Morrow  and  through  her 
is  now  hearing  pleasant  things  about  Lasell. 
She  speaks  of  Harriet  Fera  who  is  again  at  the 
University  of  Illinois  and  Pauline,  '17,  and 
Lavinia,  '16,  at  Northwestern. 

Rose  Hoefflin,  and  who  is  more  faithful 
to  Lasell  than  she,  writes  from  Chicago 
where  she  had  gone  for  the  purpose  of  at- 
tending the  Lasell  reunion  at  the  College 
Club.  She  pays  a  high  compliment  to  Mrs. 
Patterson,  '02,  the  efficient  president.  Bess 
Emerine,  '15,  Dora  Goodwillie,  '14,  Mary 
Taylor,  '17,  and  Cornelia  Stone,  '10,  were  at 
her  table  at  the  reunion.  She  describes  the 
wild  excitement  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  her 
home,  at  the  time  of  the  announcement  of 
victory.  In  her  letter  she  refers  to  the  splen- 
did war  work  done  by  Julia  Anderson  Wil- 
lems,  '94,  in  her  hospital  in  France  and  Rose 
adds,  "We  girls  who  have  been  at  Lasell 
can  be  proud  of  this  war  worker,"  and  closes 
with  the  most  cordial  greetings  to  all  La- 
sellites  of  today. 

Lasell  recently  entertained  Mrs.  Beier- 
meister,  whose  daughter  is  at  present  a  pu- 
pil in  our  school,  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Carter, 
mother  of  our  Helen  Carter  Marcy,  '06, 
recent  efficient  president  of  the  Lasell 
Alumnae  Association. 

Dear  Amy  Tuthill,  '18,  was  on  her  way  to 
Lasell  to  spend  part  of  Thanksgiving  recess 
as  the  guest  of  Miss  Caroline  Lindsay  but 
was  obliged  to  make  a  detour  on  account  of 
influenza  and  really  "brought  up"  at  the 
Newton  Hospital.  Wasn't  that  just  like  our 
thoughtful  Amy  to  thus  deliberately  avoid 
the  possibility  of  reintroducing  the  influenza 
at  her  school  home  ?  We  are  glad  that  she  is 
convalescing  and  have  no  idea  of  letting  her 
off  without  the  promised  visit. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  S.  Reynolds  (Gratia 
deZouche,  '14)  announce  the  birth  of  their 
son,  Lansing  Van  Rensselaer,  born  the 
eleventh  of  November.  In  a  note  to  Miss 
Potter,  Gratia  writes,  "I  am  so  sorry  this  nice 


baby  can't  have  the  opportunity  and  pleas- 
ure of  going  to  Lasell.  He's  a  lovely  boy 
and  weighed  eight  pounds  and  thirteen 
ounces  when  he  came  on  'Victory  Day'." 


COLLEGE  AND  UNIVERSITY  NOTES 


Esther  Norcross  '18  writes  from  her  home 
in  Old  Town,  Me.,  that  she  has  taken  some 
of  her  summer  vacation  for  study.  She  en- 
ters the  University  of  Maine  this  fall. 

Lucinda  Obermeyer  '18  is  busy  as  usual 
and  if  her  plans  were  carried  out,  has  en- 
tered the  University  of  Chicago. 

Nellie  Wong,  in  a  letter  from  St.  John, 
New  Brunswick,  was  planning  to  enter  the 
University  of  the  State  of  New  York  as  a 
student  in  pharmacy. 

Marjorie  Kunkle  '18  is  at  Indiana  Univer- 
sity, Bloomington,  Ind. 

Ethel  Stone  writes  for  a  transcript  of  her 
work  that  she  may  enter  Teachers'  College, 
Columbia  University. 

Katherine  Katz  has  changed  her  residence 
from  Proctor,  Vt,  to  Rutland,  Vt.  She  has 
matriculated  at  the  University  of  Vermont 
this  year. 

In  a  letter  from  Marion  Beach  received 
in  June,  she  speaks  of  the  possibility  of 
entering  the  Army  School  of  Nursing  in  the 
fall.'  Her  sister  Juliette  and  husband  were 
expected  from  the  West  to  spend  the  sum- 
mer at  her  old  home.  Her  husband  Lieuten- 
ant Barker  was  to  return  to  Fort  Riley. 

Harriet  Morris  and  Grace  Tredway  are 
working  out  together  the  problems  of  college 
life  at  the  Ohio  State  University. 

Dorothea  Strain  is  taking  a  course  at  the 
University  of  Montana. 

Marion  Oram  and  Huldah  Halley  are  at 
Columbia. 

Esther  Ross  is  studying  at  the  University 
of  Michigan. 


-^)     &r 


One  morning  last  week  very  hurried 
Miss  Rand  called  us  Seniors — all  worried 

"Your  rooms  are  a  mess 

I'm  ashamed  to  confess" 
And  back  home  to  fix  them  we  scurried. 


New  fact  discovered  in  Physiology :  We 
have  one  bone  in  our  neck. 

If  you  want  to  know  what  we  had  for  tea 
one  Sunday  night  ask  Frances  Coombs. 


A  MODEST  DESIRE 


AUTOISTS  FATE 


To 

Look  like  Anna  Crane 

Dress  like  Virginia  Smith 

Smile  like  Marion  Eaton 

Have  hair  like  Katherine  Rice 

Be  winsome  like  Gladys  Burnett 

Talk  like  Alice  Nicholson 

Dance  like  Helene  Sweney 

Be  a  good  mixer  like  "Pinkie"  Alden 

Have  a  personality  like  Edith  Vance 

Play  the  piano  like  "Al"  Phillips 

Be  as  neat  as  "Virgie"  Quarles 

Have  a  dimple  like  Dot  Balch 

Have  teachers  who  give  me  A's — 

That  is  all. 


"Twas  in  a  restaurant  they  met 
Romeo  and  Juliet 
'Twas  there  he  first  got  into  debt 
For  Romy-owed  what  Juli-et." 


"Oily  to  bed 

And  oily  to  rise 
Is  the  fate  of  a  man 

When  an  auto  he  buys." 


— Ex. 


O'Brien  and  Vance  are  a  pair, 

Their  laughs  resound  all  through  the  air. 

Misses  Beaman  and  Moss 

Think  their  room  is  a  loss, 

Cause  they  always  need  study  elsewhere. 


NEVER  TOO  LATE  TO  LEARN 


They  brought  the  condemned  man  to  the 
gallows. 

"Henry,"  said  the  Sheriff,  "have  you  any- 
thing to  say?" 

"Yes  sah.  I'se  got  a  few  words  to  say.  I 
merely  wish  to  state  dat  dis  suttinly  is  goin' 
to  be  a  lesson  to  me !" 


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Rules  for  modern  living — 
Don't  walk — write. 
Don't  write — telephone. 
Don't   telephone — send   a   messenger. 
Don't  send  a  messenger — take  nearest 

subway  or  "L." 
Keep  off  subways  and   "L's" — walk. 


"Say,  Casey,  what  time  is  it  by  the  Watch 
on  the  Rhine?" 

"Retirin'  time,  me  boy,  retirin'  time." 


An  old  Mammy  whose  son  was  in  France 
received  a  letter  from  him,  headed,  "Some- 
where in  France."  On  reading  it,  she  ex- 
claimed, "Just  like  that  'ole  nigger  to  get. 
lost  over  there !" 


Inquisitive  old  gentleman.  "What's  the 
name  of  your  ship?" 

Yeoman  (who  has  never  been  to  sea.) 
"Penmanship." 


Doris  R.,  looking  through  laundry,  "Well, 
I  might  as  well  send  them  this  other  button ; 
then  they'll  have  the  whole  set." 


Two  months  have  passed 

They've  gone  so  fast 

I  know  not  where  they  went 

From  the  first  day 

I  came  this  way 

My  back  with  toil's  been  bent. 

My  Lasell  life 

Has  been  one  strife 

I've  gone  a  terrible  pace 

But  what's  been  bad 

What's  made  me  sad — 

Not  a  single  man  in  the  place. 


Webbie  after  P.  K.  "I'm  a  housekeeper, 
looking  for  a  job." 

Lady  of  House.  "How  much  money  do 
you  want?" 

Webbie.     "How  much  have  you?" 


Inquisitive  old    Lady.     "What   difference 
Why  do  they  call  American  soldiers  "Dough-      is  there  between  the  French  and  American 
boys?"  girls?" 

Because   their  Secretary  is  a   Baker.  Yank.     "Oh,  about  4,000  miles." 


LASELL    LEAVES 


21 


Exchanges 


We  are  glad  to  welcome  our  friends  both 
"old"  and  "new."  Among  our  latest  exchanges 
we  find  the  following: 

The  Artisan,  Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  The  Her- 
ald, Holyoke,  Mass. ;  The  Goldenrod,  Wayne, 
Neb.;  The  Oracle,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. ;  The 
Dial,  Brattleboro,  Vt. ;  The  Tattler,  Nashua, 
N.  H. ;  Lai  Bagh  Chronicle,  Lucknow,  India; 
Philomath,  Framingham,  Mass. ;  The  Record- 
er, Syracuse,  N.  Y. ;  Nemton  High  School  Re- 
view, Newton,  Mass. ;  The  Salem  Oak,  Salem, 
Mass. ;  The  High  School  Journal,  Milton, 
Mass. ;  The  Budget,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. ;  The 
Academy  Journal,  Norwich,  Conn.;  The  Tech 
Quarterly,  Fall  River,  Mass. ;  The  Early  Train- 
er, Lawrence,  Mass. ;  The  Commerce  Caravel, 
N.  Y. ;  The  Orange,  White  Plains,  N.  Y. ;  The 
Comet,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. 


COMMENTS 


The  Quill,  Staten  Academy,  N.  Y. 

Very  attractive  cover  and  good  cuts.        A 
few  more  stories  would  improve  the  Literary 
Department. 
Whittier  Miscellany,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Large  number  of  Exchanges  shows  the  pop- 
ularity of  your  magazine. 
X-Ray,  Anderson,  Ind. 

Fine   Literary  Department.    Why  not  add 
some  cuts  and  snapshots  ? 
The  Dickinson  Union,  Williamsport,  Pa. 

Where     are     your     Exchanges?     "Private 
Thomas — His  View  of  it,''  is  a  clever  story. 
The  World,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

One  of  our  best  exchanges,  well- written  and 
complete  in  every  department. 


KILLED  IN  ACTION 

(Continued from  page  8) 

Mr.  Stanford — pipe  smashed  to  atoms  on 
the  hearth,  unable  to  believe  his  eyes, — rose 
to  his  feet,  hands  extended  to  his  son,  so 
miraculously  returned  to  them  from  the 
grave  itself ! 

In  another  minute  a  chorus  of  questions 
beat  on  Dick's  ears.  And  before  he  could 
reply,  his  mother  interposed,  with,  "Now 
just  a  minute.  Before  Richard  says  any 
more  I'm  going  to  fix  him  something  nice 
and  warm  to  eat,"  and  she  left  the  room.  Mr. 
Stanford  followed  her,  divining  the  need  of 
those  two  young  people  for  a  few  precious 
minutes  to  themselves. 

Back  came  the  mother  in  a  short  time 
bringing  with  her  an  appetizingly  heaped 
tray  and  after  Mr.  Stanford  had  made  a 
roaring  fire,  Dick  between  mouthfuls  re- 
lated the  following  account : 

"Two  months  ago  about  twelve  from  our 
company  were  sent  out  on  a  scouting  party. 
We  had  just  about  gained  our  objective 
when  we  saw  the  German  patrol  stealthily 
advancing.  Thinking  this  might  be  a  good 
chance  to  nab  a  few  prisoners,  we  ducked 
into  a  shell-hole  nearby,  and  awaited  their 
approach.  But  we  had  miscalculated  the 
number  of  Boches  and  discovering  this, 
were  about  to  change  our  course  of  action, 
when  a  starshell  exploded  above  us,  and  ex- 
posed us.  The  fight  began.  Jimmie  Wright 
fell  dead  at  my  side.  Bob  Holt  was  the  next 
to  go.  Right  after  that  I  lost  consciousness  ; 
and  when  I  came  to,  I  was  in  a  German  base 
hospital.  My  wound  was  painful  though  not 
serious.  In  this  hospital  I  remained  two 
weeks,  unable  meanwhile  to  get  any  infor- 
mation whatsoever  about  my  company. 
Only  the  day  when  I  was  pronounced  well 
and  was  about  to  be  transferred  to  a  Ger- 
man prison  camp,  there  occurred  an  unus- 
ual commotion  in  the  little  village,  and  by 
four  o'clock  that  afternoon  the  place  was  in 
possession  of  the  Americans.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  yesterday's  view  of  the  Statue  of 
Liberty,    the    sight    of    the    faces    of    those 


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American  boys  was  the  most  welcome  thing 
I  ever  saw  in  all  my  life !  I  rejoined  my  com- 
pany immediately,  and  it  was  only  then  that 
I  learned  that  the  news  that  I  had  been  re- 
ported killed  in  action  had  been  sent  home. 
Of  course  I  realized  the  condition  you  would 
all  be  in,  so  I  went  straight  to  headquarters 
to  try  and  get  a  cable  through  to  you.  There 
I  learned  it  was  then  quite  impossible,  but 
I  received  a  bit  better  news  than  sending  a 
message — the  news  of  my  immediate  medi- 
cal discharge.  Well  you  know  what  that 
meant.  Home !  the  quickest  possible  way — 
and  here  I  am,  Thank  God !" 

E.  Vance 

F.  O'Brien 


WOODLAND  PARK   NOTES 

(Continued from  page  15) 
to  serve  one  month  as  her  advisor.     Miss 
Chase  chose  Elizabeth  Savage  for  the  first 
month. 

The  badge  of  the  club  is  a  bow  of  yellow 
and  black  ribbon. 

While  the  first  interest  of  the  club  is  to 
further  the  cause  of  good  music  in  the  school, 
the  intention  is  to  conduct  the  club's  activi- 
ties in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  it  a  help- 
ful organization  in  the  school. 


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2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


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WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

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FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 

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Lowell  Bros.  &  Bailey  Co. 

FRUIT  &  PRODUCE 

69,  71   and  73  Clinton  Street 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


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Styles 

BOOTS 
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PUMPS 


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to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 

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Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid  in   $90,000.00 

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Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,    90    and    92,    16    and    17    North   Side 
Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

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Telephone  1552  Richmond 


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CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


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articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone   Richmond    1647.    1648 
ALBERT   P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 


2    and   4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

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Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

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Tel.  Con.    1275  N.  W. 

Mandolins       -              7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 

Ditson  Empire  Guitars                                        E 

stablished  1882                   Incorporated  1907 

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Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
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GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 

Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Costumers 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

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BOSTON,    MASS. 

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Our    Watch    and    Jewelry     Repair      Departments     do   the   best 
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Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


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the  quality  of  surrounding  the  correct  conventions  with  little 

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identify   the  model   as   your    own    "  style." 

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expect  to  pay.  Come  to  us  for  advice  and  it  costs 
you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
what  wrong.  You  may  follow  their  advice  or  not.  Cost 
is  the  same  —nothing.  Just  now  they  are  actively  engaged 
in  helping  plan  Fall  house-furnishings. 

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Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


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Vol.  XXXXIV         LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  DECEMBER,  1918 


No.  3 


Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
Entered  as  second-class  matter  at  the  Boston,  Mass.,  Post  Office. 
Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rate  of  postage  provided  for  in  Section  1103,  Act  of  October  3,  1917,  authorized  on  October  28,  1918. 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business  Manager 
DOROTHY   HOPPER 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES  O'BRIEN 

Subscription  Editor 

EDITH    VANCE 

Assistant 

Local  Editors 

CAROLIE  ABRAMS 

VIRGINIA  QUARLES 

Assistant    Editor 

DOROTHY  BALCH 

FRANCES   HEATH 

Literary  Editor 
MARY    HOPKINS 

Joke  Editor 
PRISCILLA  ALDEN 

Assistant 
KATHERINE    RICE 

Art  Editors 
MERCIE  NICHOLS 
LEILYA  BARKMAN 

Exchange  Editors 
SARAH   HOPKINS 
DOROTHY   HALL 

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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

A  Country    Romance P.  Alden  5 

The  True  Christmas  Spirit E.  Ramage  7 

Does  Santa  Claus  Forget  ? , .  C.  Briggs  8 

EDITORIAL , 9 

LOCALS   10 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 12 

PERSONAL   13 

JOKES 16 


RUTtt 


PRISCILLA  ALDEN  'ic 


HELENE 


s^eeneT^. 


CAROLIE  ABRAMS  '20 


THE  CLASS  PRESIDENTS 


^FTS>EC1A1- 


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ID 


THE   HOLLY    WREATH 


"The  holly  wreath's   a   joyous   sight 

To'  cure  us  of  despond 
And  it  is  made  exactly  right 

To  let  us  look  beyond — 
Beyond  the  scenes  of  gladsome  mirth 

That  all  about  us  be, 
Into  those  other  scenes  of  earth 

And  opportunity. 

The  berry's  glow  amid  the  green 

Speaks  of  that  jewelled  day 
When  love  whose  like  was  never  seen 

Dawned  on  our  mortal  way ; 
And  through  the  spaces  garlanded 

"We  look  upon  God's  poor, 
And  find  the  path  before  us  spread 
To  make  his  love  secure!" 

John  Kendrick  Bangs. 


A  COUNTRY  ROMANCE 


The  Pilgrim  Church  Sewing  Circle  was 
having  its  bi-monthly  bean  .supper,  and  all  the 
husbands  and  wives  were  patiently  waiting  for 
the  minister  and  his  wife  to  arrive  before  sit- 
ting down  at  the  long  tables,  whose  snowy 
cloths  were  scarce  visible  beneath  the  crowded 
dishes  of  luscious  New  England  baked  beans 
and  fluffy  rolls  together  with  all  the  other 
good  things  the  women-folks  of  Cedarville, 
Cape  Cod,  knew  how  to  make.  Of  course  it 
wasn't  absolutely  necessary  to  wait  for  him, 
but  the  minister  had  always  started  the  grace 
on  these  occasions ;  and  even  if  all  the  people 


did  know,  "Praise  God  from  Whom  all  bles- 
sings flow,"  it  was  customary  for  their  beloved 
pastor  to  come  in  first  with  his  deep,  cheery, 
bass  voice.  So  then,  they  felt  that,  regardless 
of  the  fact  that  the  beans  were  cooling  off, 
they  must  wait. 

Why  was  the  minister  late  ?  Such  a  thing  had 
never  happened  before  and  it  was  certain  that 
he  wasn't  sick  because  Mrs.  Weller  had  called 
at  his  house  that  very  morning  to  get  his  wife's 
oatmeal  cookie  recipe,  and  had  seen  him  out 
behind  the  shed,  chopping  wood.  Surely  no 
man  could  be  sick  and  still  chop  wood,  es- 
pecially their  minister. 

Six  o'clock  is  a  very  late  hour  at  Cedarville 
for  supper  as  everyone  knew,  but  on  account 
of  the  men  having  to  come  in  from  the  fields 
and  dress  up  on  these  occasions,  the  Circle  had 
been  obliged  to  make  the  hour  of  eating  six 
instead  of  five,  as  was  usual  at  home.  Any 
mortal  being  who  lives  on  Cape  Cod  and  can't 
get  to  the  supper  table  before  six  o'clock  has 
something  radically  wrong  with  his  system. 

Far  away,  through  the  still  country  air  could 
be  heard  the  whistle  of  the  six-five  train,  and 
later  the  rumble  of  the  train  itself  pulling  into 
the  little  Cedarville  station.  Ten  minutes  later, 
after  the  Circle's  exasperated  President  had 
nearly  decided  to  start  grace  herself,  footsteps 
were  heard.  They  grew  louder,  came  into  the 
vestibule,  and  then  the  door  opened  to  admit 
the  minister,  his  wife,  and  a  little  girl.  The 
minister  smiled,  took  off  his  hat  and  murmured 
a  hasty  apology  for  his  tardiness,  then,  with 
somewhat  anxjpus  eyes,  introduced  the  little 
girl  to  the  Parish  as  "our  little  Anne."     For 


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a  moment  all  was  silence,  then  Mrs.  Turner, 
without  speaking  to  the  child,  turned  and 
asked,  a  bit  ungraciously  it  seemed,  where  the 
child  had  come  from.  It  was  as  if  a  signa1  had 
been  given  for  open  discussion  and  forgetting 
supper  entirely,  everybody  began  to  ask  ques- 
tions as  fast  as  is  humanly  possibly.  That  the 
minister  and  his  wife  should  be  late  to  sup- 
per, and  that  when  they  did  arrive,  they  should 
bring  with  them  an  entirely  strange  child  an- 
swering to  the  name  of  Anne,  a  child  dressed, 
too,  in  an  old,  made-over  suit  that  Mrs.  Tyler 
recognized  as  the  one  she  had  .sent  to  the  mis- 
sionary orphan  home  three  years  before — these 
things  most  certainly  were  a  problem  to  be  set- 
tled without  delay. 

It  didn't  take  long,  however,  for  the  min- 
ister's wife  to  explain  to  the  restive  and 
inquisitive  parishioners  that  the  child  had  come 
to  live  with  her  for  good.  She  had  always 
wanted  a  little  girl  of  her  own,  and  Anne  had 
especially  attracted  her  attention  every  time 
she  had  visited  the  orphan  home ;  so  as  winter 
was  coming  on  with  its  long,  cold  evenings, 
they  had  decided  that  the  little  girl  would  be 
a  most  welcome  addition  to  their  home  circle, 
and  at  the  same  time  might  thus  enjoy  what  she 
had  hitherto  been  a  stranger  to — the  benefits  of 
a  real  home.  At  this  point  of  the  story,  Mary 
Spencer,  who  with  ten  year  old  bliss  and  im- 
pudence, had  been  sampling  everything  on  the 
table,  called  loudly  to  her  mother,  asking  when 
they  were  going  to  eat.  At  that  reminder 
everybody  moved  toward  the  table  and  pres- 
ently the  minister,  in  a  shaky  voice,  began 
grace. 

For  some  days  thereafter,  little  Anne  was 
under  constant  criticism  as  was  the  minister 
and  also  the  minister's  wife.;  but  the  child's 
pretty  curls  and  blue  eyes,  and  her  dainty  little 
manners  eventually  made  her  a  great  favorite 
among  the  villagers  ;  and  at  school  the  children 
did,  somehow,  just  as  she  said  in  their  games. 
This  did  not  happen  overnight,  however ;  it  was 
a  good  many  months  before  she  could  enter 
the  church  vestry  without  having  a  cold,  chilly 
feeling  creep  up  and  down  her  spine,  the  re- 


sult of  knowing  herself  watched  and  not  quite 
approved  of. 

Years  flew  by,  and  Anne  added  inches  to  her 
stature,  more  beauty  yet  to  her  winsome  face 
and  pretty  figure  and  a  reputation  for  sweet- 
ness of  disposition  that  pleased  the  minister's 
wife.  Then  there  came  a  night  when,  after  an 
exceptionally  good  bean  supper  and  sociable, 
Gilbert  Miller  asked  to  see  her  home.  From 
that  time  on  going  to  church  was,  to  Anne,  a 
constant  and  much  enhanced  pleasure.  She  was 
then  fifteen.  The  habit  grew  on  Gilbert,  and 
by  the  time  Anne  was  seventeen  and  Gilbert 
had  reached  the  ripe  age  of  twenty,  they  were 
commonly  spoken  of  as  keeping  company  with 
each  other. 

Gilbert  had  finished  school  three  years  be- 
fore and  had  now  a  very  good  position  in  the 
village  store.  Whenever  possible,  he  took  Anne 
with  him  as  he  rode  around  delivering  his 
groceries ;  and  many  a  farmer's  wife  had  re- 
ceived him  coldly  when  he  arrived  a  half  hour 
late  with  her  saleratus  and  soda  crackers,  and 
would  not  even  speak  to  Anne,  who  was  se- 
cretly blamed  for  this  unexcusable  tardiness. 
It  wasn't  wise  of  Gilbert,  to  be  sure,  nor  yet 
of  Anne.  But  they  were  young,  and  they 
lived  in  an  unconventional  community  where 
everybody  knew  everybody  else  and  all  did 
pretty  much  as  they  liked,  taking  praise  or 
blame  as  it  came. 

On  the  Saturday  before  Anne's  eighteenth 
birthday,  Gilbert  returned  from  Boston  with  a 
pretty  diamond  solitaire  in  his  breast  pocket ; 
also  he  came  back  with  the  news  that  the 
Germans  had  invaded  Belgium.  The  next 
Tuesday,  the  day  after  Anne's  birthday,  the 
boy  left  for  Canada,  his  heart  hot  with  in- 
dignation at  the  outrages  he'd  read  of.  Anne, 
thus  left  behind,  started  a  Red  Cross  branch 
in  the  Pilgrim  Sewing  Circle.  For  two  years 
she  heard  from  him  twice  a  week,  and  the 
little  diamond  sparkled  happily,  because  Anne 
knew  he  was  doing  his  bit.  War  was  then 
declared  in  the  United  States,  but  Gilbert  had 
long  since  reached  France  and  those  deadly 
trenches. 


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Then  letters  stopped  coming  and  the  little 
diamond,  in  sympathy  with  Anne's  anxiety- 
ceased  to  sparkle  so  brightly.  After  six 
months  of  anxious  watching  and  waiting,  the 
heart-sick  girl  received  a  cablegram  saying  that 
Gilbert  had  been  badly  gassed  and  was  to  be 
returned  to  America,  being  no  longer  fit  for 
military  duty.  That  night  .she  went  down  to 
the  beach,  and  sitting  on  a  big  shiny  bowlder 
with  the  salty  waves  dancing  around  her  feet, 
talked  it  over  with  the  friendly  little  stars. 

It  has  been  a  whole  week  now  since  Cedar- 
ville  turned  out  to  meet  Gilbert  at  the  little 
old  depot  and  four  days  have  passed  since 
he  went  away  again  with  Anne  on  his  arm. 
The  depot  platform  is  all  covered  with  con- 
fetti and  the  old  station  master  is  quite  sure 
he  will  never  be  able  to  sweep  it  all  out  of  the 
cracks.  The  little  diamond  is  sparkling  happily 
again  and  seems  to  be  quite  friendly  with  the 
plain  gold  band  that  sits  next  to  it  on  Anne's 
slender  pink  finger.  Gilbert  has  bought  the 
old,  village  grocery  store  and  when  he  and 
Anne  return  from  their  honeymoon  at  Niagara 
Falls,  he  intends  to  make  a  modern  establish- 
ment out  of  it.  Then  he  and  Anne  will  settle 
down  in  Cedarville  for  a  happy,  contented  life 
together. 

P.  Alden. 


THE  TRUE  CHRISTMAS  SPIRIT 


Christmas  once  again !  Snow,  fir  trees  and 
holly,  all  symbols  of  this  happy  time  of  the 
year;  yet  we  feel  that  this  Christmas  every- 
where in  the  world  is  not  going  to  be  like  the 
old  ones  we  have  always  known.  A  new 
Christmas  message  is  needed  for  those  who  are 
thoughtful.  It  does  seem  as  though  Christ- 
mas this  year  ought  to  be  different  and  better 
suited  to  the  new  world,  that  the  penalty  of 
war  has  put  upon  us.  The  virtues  of  our 
forefathers  are  very  old,  but  we  cannot  find 
anything  better  than  charity,  good-will,  and 
loving  kindness.  Justice  and  truth  seem  very 
old,  but  there  is  nothing  to  take  their  places ; 


vet  by  this  new  Christmas  we  may  learn  to 
understand  them  clearly,  and  try  to  make  them 
our  very  own.  Love,  how  very  old  that  is, 
yet  by  this  we  have  striven  for  a  higher  democ- 
racy, a  universal  brotherhood,  and  the  idea 
of  helping  others  to  the  utmost  of  our  ability. 
Christmas  will  be  old,  because  we  must  have 
these  humanities  old  and  new,  because  we  shall 
know  just  what  the  true  meaning  of  each  one  is 
and  learn  to  practice  it. 

With  Christmas  comes  the  spirit  of  giving 
with  all  the  love  that  can  go  with  the  gift,  for 
at  this  time  in  the  year  came  the  greatest  gift 
of  love  the  world  has  even  known,  the  Christ 
Child.  In  the  little  town  of  Bethlehem,  in  a 
lowly  manger,  this  wondrous  child  was  born, 
who  when  he  became  a  man,  gave  all  he  had, 
his  life,  to  save  the  people  that  he  loved  and 
make  them  happy.  Was  this  not  the  greatest 
gift  he  could  give,  and  did  he  not  give  it  with 
all  the  love  he  had  ? 

Joy  is  another  emotion  that  is  shown  more 
and  more  on  Christmas.  Old  and  young  unite 
in  the  joy  of  a  Christmas  tree,  or  the 
wonderful  presents  Santa  Claus  brings 
down  the  chimney,  to  fill  their  stock- 
ings hanging  there  by  the  old  fireplace,  great 
large  stockings  and  little  wee  ones.  Then,  too, 
there  is  the  joy  of  Christmas  Day,  when  all 
the  members  of  families  are  together  and  the 
true  spirit  of  Christmas  is  shown  by  the  ac- 
tions and  the  happiness  of  all.  This  year, 
especially,  Christmas  will  seem  different  to 
mothers,  who  really  can  express  their  joy  to 
know  that  their  boys,  although  many  of  them 
are  still  in  France,  can  be  spared  from  the 
terrible  fighting  that  was  going  on  a  year  ago, 
and  can  enter  into  the  joy  of  spreading  the  true 
Christmas  spirit  everywhere.  Joy  may  be  re- 
ceived by  many  as  a  return  for  helping  the  poor 
and  needy  in  giving  them  money  or  in  prepar- 
ing baskets  of  food  for  their  Christmas  din- 
ner ;  at  this  time  the  saying,  "It  is  more  blessed 
to  give  than  to  receive,"  seems  most  appropri- 
ate. Everyone  shows  kindness  on  this  day  of 
the  year  and  all  hatred  seems  put  away  and 
only  true  love  is  shown.     But  who  could  do 


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otherwise  when  they  think  what  this  day  really 
signifies  ? 

The  true  spirit  of  Christmas  will  be  shown 
more  this  year  than  it  ever  has  been  before ;  for 
love  and  peace  have  come  to  the  world  while 
hatred  and  war  have  vanished.  Everyone  will 
be  thankful  and  truly  say,  "Glory  to  God  in 
the  Highest,  Peace  on  Earth,  Good  will  to- 
ward Men." 

E.  Ramage. 


DOES  SANTA  CLAUS  FORGET? 


Once   there  was   a  little  boy, 

He  had  not  a  single  toy, 

For  he  was  a  Belgian  lad 

Underfed  and  poorly  clad. 

His  papa  died  in  the  fight, 

Struggling  hard  for  God  and  Right. 

So  Jimmie  and  his  sister  Sue 

I  now  will  introduce  to  you. 

In  a  dugout,  without  light, 

They  took  shelter  for  the  night. 

Both  could  hear  the  cannon's  roar, 

Jimmie  eight,  Sue  only  four. 

And  of  course  they  had  no  bed 

Not  a  pillow  for  their  head, 

Jimmie  said:  "Dear  Sue  I  fear 

No  Christmas  cheer  will  come  this  year. 

Here  we  are  now  all  alone, 

And  ne'er  expect  to  find  our  home." 

In  this  dug-out,  dark  and  cold, 

A  piece  of  bread,  unfit  with  mold, 

Was  all  the  food  these  children  had; 

A  baby  girl,  a  tiny  lad. 

Does  this  not  make  one  feel  quite  blue 

To  think  this   really  could   be   true? 

Jimmie's  heart  was  far  from  light 

In  that  black  cavern,  at  dead  of  night, 

For  he  fully  realized  danger 

Which  to  Sue  was  yet  a  stranger. 

Sue's  dear  heart  was  light  and  gay. 

Is  it  not  a  baby's  way? 

Head  upon  her  Jimmie's  arm 

She  felt  safe  from  any  harm. 

Sue  said:  "Jimmie,  let  us  pray, 

It  is  just  the  only  way 

If  we  want  old  Santa  dear 

To  come  to  us  again  this  year." 

Quietly,  at  break  of  day, 
A  soldier  on  his  weary  way, 
Clad  in  khaki  from  head  to  foot, 
Happened   to  spy  the  tiny  nook 
In  which  the  two  dear  babies  lay 
Slumbering  on  at  break  of  day. 
Our  soldier  from  the  trenches  came; 
His  hair  was  like  a  horse's  mane; 
His  beard  was  long  and  hid  his  chin. 
Withal  he  had  a  friendly  grin, 


For  he  had  heard   each   cannon  cease, 
And  saw  at  last  the  dawn  of  peace. 
Two  sleeping  faces  to  him  upturned; 
His  stalwart  heart  within  him  yearned 
To  bring  a  tiny  bit  of  cheer 
To  some  one's  darlings  huddled  here. 

Christmas  day  at  last  has  come. 
I  see  a  doll,  a  tiny  drum, 
With  many  other  pretty  toys 
Cherished    long  by   girls    and   boys. 
Around  a  tree  two  children  dance 
You'd  think  that  they  were  in  a  trance. 
The  children  are  brave  Jim  and  Sue 
Whom  I  have  introduced  to  you. 
"See,"  said   Sue  with  eyes  star  bright, 
"Santa  came  right  here  last  night. 
And  I  thought  if  we  did  pray 
He  would  surely  stop  this  way." 
Leaning  there  against  the  wall, 
Stands  a  soldier  strong  and  tall, 
Looking  on  with  merry  glee, 
A  happier  lad  one  ne'er  did  see. 
This  is  what  our  soldiers  do. 
Couldn't  we  help  just  a  few? 

Christina  M.  Briggs,  '19. 


WHEN   KINKS   APPEAR 


"No  matter,  if  you  think 
The  world  is   in  a  kink 
Just  strike  your  proper  gait 
And  keep  your  own  path  straight. 

It  won't  be  long  before, 
In  footing  up  the  score 
You'll  find  past  any  doubt 
The   kink   is    straightened   out." 

John  Kendrick  Bangs. 


GOD  BLESS  THE  HOME  FOLKS 


"God  bless  the  home  folks,  one  and  all. 

Hearts  to  each  other  dear. 
God  bless  the  home  folks  large  and  small : 

God  bless  them  far  and  near. 
Through  summer  sun  and  winter  chill, 

In  bliss  or  grief  the  same, 
God's  blessing  on  each  one  until 

Death  quenches  life's  last  flame; 
And  then  to  memory  give  the  power 

To  keep  its  treasure  store 
Through  every  future  passing  hour 

Henceforth  forevermore." — Ex. 


A  Merry  Christmas  to  everyone !  What  a 
glorious  one  it  will  be !  Of  course  there  are 
many  homes  to  which  sorrow  has  come ;  there 
are  many  homes  to  which  the  boys  will  never 
return,  or  to  which  if  they  do  return  they 
will  come  frightfully  maimed.  Yet  the  actual 
fighting  has  ceased  and  the  final  result  could 
never  have  been  reached  without  these  boys. 
Therefore  we  feel  that  their  costly  suffering 
and  that  of  their  dear  ones  has  not  been  in 
vain.  The  spirit  that  has  been  lacking  on 
each  Christmas  day  for  the  last  four  years 
has  now  returned  to  the  whole  world  with 
renewed  vigor.  As  never  before,  we  realize 
the  meaning  of  the  words  sung  on  that  first 
Christmas  morn,  "Peace  on  earth,  Good  Will 
toward  Men." 


Lasell  has  an  organized  Red  Cross  Chapter 
this  year.  It  is  under  the  able  direction  of 
Mrs.  Saunders  as  Secretary,  Ethel  Ramage  as 
Chairman,  Anna  Crane  as  Vice  Chairman  and 
Dorothy  Sprague  as  Treasurer.  The  girls 
have  signed  up  to  work  in  groups  of  ten,  each 
group  meeting  once  every  two  weeks.  Haw- 
thorne has  been  the  meeting  place.  At  present 
the  work  consists  mainly  of  making  property 
bags  and  doing  other  sewing  and  knitting.  The 
girls  have  taken  hold  of  the  work  with  interest. 
We  hope  the  spirit  will  continue;  if  it  does, 


by  the  end  of  the  year,  Lasell  will  have  ac- 
complished much  and  will  have  added  her  part 
to  the  Nation's  relief  work. 

During  the  term  Lasell  has  made   for  the 
Red  Cross  the  following  articles : 

40  wash  mits. 

78  sweaters. 

72  pairs  socks. 

5  hoods. 

1  scarf. 

100  bags. 


Several  girls  from  the  sewing  department 
are  putting  their  training  to  good  use  by 
teaching  sewing  every  Tuesday  afternoon  at 
the  West  Newton  Day  Nursery. 


America's  work  is  still  before  her  and  it  is 
for  each  one  of  us  to  help  in  every  way  that 
is  possible.  Think  of  the  amount  of  paper 
that  we  waste  every  day,  just  thoughtlessly. 
The  food  which  is  wasted  might  be  helping  our 
Allies,  even  saving  them  from  starvation.  Save 
money,  possibly  more  Liberty  Loans  and  relief 
drives  are  coming.  Let  us  be  prepared  to  the 
utmost  of  our  ability  to  give  and  keep  our 
pledges.  Be  ready  to  serve  Him  in  every  way, 
so  that  through  His  help  and  our  saving  and 
giving  we  can  settle  this  war  justly  and  for- 
ever. 


On  Thursday  evening,  Nov.  21,  Dr.  Leon 
Vincent  gave  his  second  lecture,  "The  Present 
Struggle."  Dr.  Vincent  told  of  the  superb  con- 
fidence of  the  Germans  at  the  beginning  of  this 
war — how  they  believed  the  affair  to  be  a  mat- 
ter of  a  few  weeks  and  the  result  a  glorious 
victory  for  Germany.  Dr.  Vincent  brought 
out  the  significance  of  the  little  things  of  this 
war — how  in  19 12  German  men  were  waiting 
in  Cologne,  evidently  for  the  war ;  how  the 
mobilization  orders  were  dated  1912  and  had 
been  changed  to  1914;  how  in  Munich,  forty- 
eight  hours  before  war  was  declared,  supplies 
were  being  rushed  to  the  front — all  of  these 
show  Germany's  preparedness  for  the  war  that 
was  to  bring  them  such  glory.  Again  the  lit- 
erature reflects  the  attitude  of  the  people.  The 
literature  before  the  war  is  divided  into  two 
classes :  first,  the  books  written  to  prepare  the 
public  for  the  impending  struggle ;  .second, 
books  written  to  explain  why  the  first  books 
were  written.  Even  the  Emperor,  in  1896, 
made  this  startling  assertion,  "Out  of  the  Ger- 
man Empire,  a  World  Empire  has  arisen."  Dr. 
Vincent  said  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 
happenings  of  the  war  was  the  publishing  of  a 


pamphlet  by  ninety-six  of  the  foremost  schol- 
ars in  Germany,  defending  Germany  and  deny- 
ing the  blame  of  the  war.  This  pamphlet  was 
effectively  answered  by  an  American  business 
man,  Samuel  Hardin  Church,  in  "America's 
Verdict  on  the  War."  This  pamphlet  has  been 
printed  in  many  languages  and  has  been  dis- 
tributed all-over  the  world,  even  to  the  German 
soldiers.  It  is  one  of  America's  contributions 
to  the  war. 


'  Friday  afternoon,  Nov.  22,  the  French 
classes  were  entertained  with  a  very  pleasant 
tea  in  the  parlors  "En  Passant  par  la  Lor- 
raine" the  national  anthem  of  Alsace-Lorraine 
was  sung,  and  the  little  yarn  dolls,  "Nenette 
and  Ratintin"  were  exhibited.  Nearly  fifty  dol- 
lars worth  of  these  have  been  made  by  Mile. 
Le  Royer  and  some  of  the  girls. 


Our  Thanksgiving  Service,  on  November 
twenty-fourth,  was  conducted  by  Mrs.  Clark, 
wife  of  the  founder  of  the  Christian  Endeavor 
Society.  She  took  as  her  text,  "What  shall  I 
render  unto  the  Lord  for  all  His  benefits." 
Then  she  told  us  how  she  learned  to  appreciate 


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the  ordinary  comforts  of  life — which  we  some- 
times forget — by  enduring  so  many  small  dis- 
comforts in  foreign  lands.  Mrs.  Clark  made 
the  suggestion  that  we  place  one  cent  in  a  mis- 
sionary box  for  every  blessing  we  have  and 
watch  how  quickly  the  box  wjll  get  filled.  But 
she  also  reminded  us  that  money  is  not  the 
only  thing  we  should  give  to  the  Lord ;  our 
hearts  are  the  best  gifts  for  Him. 


A  most  interesting  Christian  Endeavor 
meeting  was  held  December  third  with  Miss 
Rand  as  leader.  "Our  part  now  that  the  war 
is  over"  was  the  topic  of  the  evening.  She 
told  us  that  we  must  not  forget  what  our 
country  means  to  us  and  the  ideals  of  justice 
for  which  we  fought.  Our  Allies  believe  us 
to  be  an  idealistic  nation  and  we  must  strive 
our  utmost  to  fulfill  this  conception. 


Dr.  Edgar  Park  spoke  at  Vesper  Service  on 
Sunday  evening,  Dec.  i.  His  talk  was  about 
the  year  1918  as  related  to  the  army  camps  and 
naval  stations  in  this  country.  The  govern- 
ment of  this  country  takes  care  of  the  physical 
and  mental  health  of  its  army.  The  men  come 
into  camp  with  minor  physical  defects  but  are 
taken  in  hand  and  soon  are  in  the  pink  of 
physical  perfection.  In  the  same  way,  men 
come  into  the  camp  without  the  ability  to  use 
their  minds,  but  soon  their  minds  are  brought 
up  to  the  tip  of  perfection.  Also,  the  country 
teaches  the  men  to  do  their  part,  rather  than 
get  their  part — the  essence  of  real  patriotism. 
Two  things  that  1918  has  started  to  accom- 
plish, the  war  must  do  for  this  country :  first^ 
to  insure  to  every  child  a  square  deal  in  health, 
education  and  life;  and  second,  to  find  some 
way  by  which  war  will  never  come  again.  A 
league  of  nations  must  be  organized  to  insure 
the  safety  of  all  nations.  It  is  up  to  the  younger 
generation,  the  generation  that  did  not  fight 
this  war,  to  carry  out  these  conditions. 


Monday,  Nov.  25,  was  a  day  of  bustle  and 
excitement  all  over  the  school  after  classifica- 
tions came  out.    Little  notes  of  class  meetings 


were  flying  around  and  everyone  was  as  ex- 
cited as  could  be.  The  first  surprise  came  at 
dinner  when  the  Seniors  announced  Junior  of- 
ficers. You  see !  The  cat  was  let  out  of  the 
bag  just  a  little  too  soon — if  you  should  ask 
the  Junior  class.     Congratulations  to : 

Carolie  Abrams — President 

Anna   Case — Vice-President 

Katherine  Rice — Secretary  and   Song  Leader 

Frances  Heath — Treasurer 

May  Fogg:: — Cheer  Leader 


A  few  minutes  later,  with  a  great  noise  and 
beating  of  drums,  Viola  Sullivan  announced 
the  Sophomore  officers : 
Ruth  Watson — President 
Ruth    Beiermeister — Vice-President 
Helen  Files — Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Lillian   Doane — Cheer  Leader 


The  same  night  Muriel  Sanger  announced 
that  the  Freshmen  had  chosen  as  their  officers  : 
Florence   Sheip — President 
Dorothy    Cook — Vice-President 
Mildred    Caine — Secretary    and   Treasurer 
Marion   Williams — Cheer   Leader 


Tuesday  night  the  Sub-Freshmen  and  Preps 
offered  an  advanced  method  of  photography 
when  the  following  girls  were  framed  in  real 
life: 

Helene  Sweney — President 

Aida  Beeche — Vice-President 

Isabel  Britton — Secretary  and  Treasurer 

Lina   Belden — Cheer  Leader 


Janis  Hopkins  received  a  telegram,  too,  an: 
nouncing  the  Special  officers  : 
Katherine  Tufts — President 
Janet  Edgerly — Vice-President 
Miriam  White — Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Mildred  Freeman — Cheer  Leader 


Glee   Club    announces   its   officers    for   this 
year: 

Alice  Phillips — President 

Doris  Rogers — Secretary  and  Treasurer 

Katherine  Rice — Leader 

Georgina  Flattery — Assistant  Leader 


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On  November  7 
out  and  chose  the 
Gladys  Burnett 
Dorothy  Burnham 
Helen    Brooks 
Helen  Balcom 
Dorothy  Sprague 
Mary  Fogg 
Doris  Brown 
Mabel  Harding 


the  Glee  Club  had  its  try- 
following  new  members. 

Viola   Sullivan 

Margaret  Stewart 

Beulah   McParland 

Sue  Davidson 

Julia  Rankin 

Helen  Prince 

Ruth  Davis 


Surely  every  one  who  heard  Dr.  Drew,  the 
new  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church,  at 
Vespers,  Sunday  night,  Dec.  8,  will  be  in- 
spired to  do  her  very  best  the  rest  of  the  year. 
Dr.  Drew  showed  that  truth  is  expressed  in 
varied  forms  and  that  the  real  aim  of  educa- 
tion is  to  learn  the  truth.  Nothing  is  impos- 
sible that  is  right,  high,  and  true.  The  true  se- 
cret of  life  is  to  ally  oneself  with  the  truth, 
to  do  one's  best,  and  always  to  remember,  "all 
things  are  possible  with  God." 


Quite  a  Christmas  spirit  was  evident  at 
Christian  Endeavor  meeting,  Tuesday,  Dec.  10. 
The  meeting  was  led  by  Katherine  Rice  who 
read  "The  Other  Wise  Man"  by  Henry  Van 
Dyke.    Miss  Potter  led  in  prayer. 


Recently  the  Juniors  tried  to  catch  the  un- 
suspecting little  Sophomores  by  having  one  of 
their  class  songs  left  in  a  conspicuous  place. 
The  Sophomores  took  the  song,  but  not  quite 
as  the  Juniors  expected.  Here  is  their  an- 
swer as  sung  in  the  "Gym"  : 

Juniors — Keep  your  songs  off  Carter  Floor 

Keep  your  songs  off  Carter  floor 

Last  night  by  the  electric  light 

We  found   one,   we   found   one 

But  you  can't  fox  us  that  way 

For   we    know    it's    not   the   one 

Tho  there  are  squirrels  'round  in  front 

We  are  not  quite  such  nuts 

So  keep  your  songs  off  Carter  Floor. 

A  word  of  advice,  Juniors — listen  before 
you  sing  "We  fooled  you." 


WOODLAND    PARK   NOTES 


our  attention  to  partially  making  up  for  our 
enforced  closing  in  October. 

We  enjoyed  our  little  Thanksgiving  recess, 
tho'  we  had  but  one  day's  vacation.  The  dinner 
at  Lasell  was  a  good  old-fashioned  repast, 
cooked  and  served  in  Lasell's  best  style  and 
heartily  enjoyed  by  all.  Three  of  our  girls 
went  home,  but  the  rest  of  our  family  were 
together. 

November  27  was  an  eventful  day  in  our 
first  year,  for  at  the  opening  exercises  on  that 
morning  we  had  the  pleasure  of  making  Mrs. 
G.  M.  Winslow  our  honorary  member.  Eliza- 
beth Savage  very  gracefully  presented  the 
key  of  the  school  to  Mrs.  Winslow,  making  the 
following  presentation  speech : 
"Mrs.  Winslow: 

"We  who  are  pupils  at  Woodland  Park 
this  opening  year  are  indeed  fortunate 
in  having  the  opportunity  to  share  with 
you  and  Dr.  Winslow  in  makjing  the 
history  of  the  school. 

"Many  happy,  helpful  influences  have 
been  thrown  around  us.  Among  the  best 
of  them  all  is  the  loving  interest  you  show 
in  us,  both  by  sending  Marjorie  and 
Donald  to  be  our  schoolmates  and  by  the 
pleasant  plans  you  are  always  having  in 
mind  for  our  study  and  play. 

"We   appreciate    you    so    much,   Mrs. 
Winslow,  we  want  you  with  us  often.    To 
be  sure  there  shall  be  no  closed  doors  be- 
.tween  us,  we  have  the  pleasure  of  present- 
ing to  you  this  morning  the  key  to  Wood- 
(Continued  on  page  17) 


At  Woodland  Park  we  have  been  busy  the 
past   month    doing   regular   work   and   giving 


A  PICNIC  BY  THE  RIVER 


Members  of  the  Alumnae  Association  and 
all  "old  girls"  in  good  and  regular  standing 
Tiave  been  favored  recently  with  a  word  from 
the  treasurer,  Mrs.  Ella  Richardson  dishing, 
'73.  In  the  circular  our  friend  is  giving  each 
■one  of  us  a  fine  reason  for  paying  our  annual 
dues  to  the  Alumnae  Association.  Those  of 
us  who  are  still  working  in  the  Lasell  field 
realize  the  worthwhileness  of  this  fund  which 
annually  opens  the  door  for  some  worthy  girl 
to  receive  the  unique  benefits  of  our  Alma 
Mater.  We  trust  that  every  one  will  be  re- 
sponsive to  the  extent  of  one  dollar  annually 
to  help  on  this  good  cause. 

In  a  recent  note  to  Dr.  Winslow  from 
Evelyn  H.  Cate  we  learn  that  our  gifted  form- 
er pupil  is  about  to  branch  off  independently 
into  what  she  hopes  will  be  a  successful  career 
as  a  music  teacher.  Yes,  Evelyn,  we  do  all 
remember  you  very  distinctly  and  wish  you 
God  speed  in  your  chosen  work. 

Word  has  recently  come  from  Helen  W. 
Smith  '18.  She  is  much  taken  up  at  present 
with  volunteer  Red  Cross  work  in  the  depart- 
ment of  the  New  York  County  Chapter.  She 
is  assisting  the  head  of  the  Speakers  Bureau 
and  her  duties  are  many  and  varied.  In  her 
own  words  to  begin  with  she  has  the  entire 
charge  of  the  filing  and  a  large  amount  of  lit- 
erature which  the  bureau  sends  out  and  then 


she  answers  the  telephone,  makes  engagements 
for  the  speakers  and  the  "most  interesting  part 
of  my  work,"  writes  Helen,  "is  the  meeting 
people  and  talking  to  them."  "We  come  in 
contact  with  many  people  of  all  types  and  from 
all  walks  in  life.  I  do  not  wish  to  give  up  my 
studies  and  I  hope  to  visit  Lasell  later  which 
I  have  missed  sadly.  Best  wishes  for  a  splen- 
did year." 

We  have  heard  recently  that  Frances 
Bragdon  is  doing  war  work  somewhere  in 
France.    Wish  we  knew  "all  about  it." 

Elsie  Kimball  '18  was  "back  home"  for  the 
Christmas  vesper  service.  We  are  always  glad 
to  welcome  her. 

May  Fogg  was  favored  and  so  was  Lasell 
recently  with  a  visit  from  her  mother  and 
sister. 

Helen  Files'  father  and  mother  were  her 
guests  for  the  Christmas  vesper  service.  Pro- 
fessor Files  of  Bowdoin  College  discontinued 
his  work  long  enough  to  serve  in  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  work  in  France  and  had  many  interesting 
incidents  to  relate  concerning  his  experiences. 

Mercie  Nichols  and  Dorothy  Burnham  en- 
tertained their  parents  recently.  Mrs.  Burn- 
ham  has  been  appointed  by  the  State  to  repre- 
sent the  Conservation  Drive  and  we  have  heard 
of  her  marked  success  in  this  new  departure. 

Katherine  Ladd's  father,  Captain  Ladd,  sur- 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


prised  her  recently  and  made  altogether  too 
short  a  call  at  the  Seminary. 

Lasell  was  honored  recently  in  counting 
among  our  visitors  Major  Glenn  Miller  of  the 
Red  Cross.  Major  Miller  is  field  director  of 
the  Military  Relief  in  Utah.  His  son  who  is  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  was  with  him.  Our 
great  regret  was  that  we  could  not  detain  Ma- 
jor Miller  long  enough  to  have  him  address  our 
school. 

In  a  recent  service  we  were  favored  in 
listening  to  an  interesting  and  illuminating  talk 
from  our  Miss  Mullikin  on  the  "Destruction 
during  the  recent  war  of  some  of  the  famous 
cathedrals  and  buildings  of  architectural  prom- 
inence." We  will  not  soon  forget  her  closing 
words  which  were  a  call  to  our  girls  to  follow 
the  example  of  their  brothers  who  had  given 
their  all  for  Democracy  and  measure  up  to  our 
best  during  these  days  of  reconstruction. 

Miss  Packard  has  just  received  an  interest- 
ing letter  from  Lulie  Hogg  '88,  who  was  sud- 
denly called  back  to  Texas  on  account  of  the 
illness  of  her  sister.  Miss  Hogg  has  been  in- 
deed bereaved  in  the  death  of  a  favorite 
nephew.  She  speaks  of  the  full  recovery  of  her 
niece,  our  Mrs.  Margaret  Powell  Hertig  of 
Fort  Worth,  Texas,  and  closes  by  referring  to 
the  good  work  now  going  on  in  Fort  Worth 
under  the  direction  of  Rev.  William  Sunday. 
<3lfjennie  Louise  King,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Frank  A.  King  (Marion  MacArthur  '12) 
arrived  Nov.  6  and  was  promptly  registered  on 
our  school  waiting  list.  Our  congratulations  to 
the  parents  and  to  favored  Jennie  Louise. 

We  are  holding  our  dear  Miss  Rand  and 
her  family  in  constant  and  tender  remembrance 
during  these  days  for  she  is  greatly  bereaved 
in  the  sudden  passing  away  of  her  father. 
The  Boston  daily  papers  bore  testimony  to  the 
high  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Rand  was  held  and 
referred  to  the  many  prominent  offices  which 
he  had  filled. 

One  of  the  most  enjoyable  social  events  of 
this  month  was  the  "at-home"  when  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Winslow  entertained  the  members  of 
the  faculty.    The  cordiality  and  informality  of 


the  occasion  will  long  be  remembered  by  those 
who  were  privileged  to  enjoy  the  gracious  hos- 
pitality of  our  Principal  and  his  wife. 

Just  on  time  came  Martha  Schuman  Luben- 
stein's  subscription  for  the  Leaves  and  along 
with  it  her  best  wishes  for  the  school  year. 
She  assures  us  in  true  Lasell  vernacular  that 
they  are  all  well  and  happy  and  "if  possible  our 
baby  son  the  happiest  of  all  for  he  laughs  all 
day  long."  She  also  writes  that  Ida  wishes 
to  join  her  in  kind  remembrances  and  love. 
We  would  give  much  to  actually  see. these  two 
devoted  old  girls  and  this  precious  little  Lasell 
baby. 

Amy  Tuthill,  '18,  did  arrive  and  what  a  joy 
it  was  to  have  her  in  our  midst  again.  She 
has  fully  recovered  from  the  influenza  and 
while  at  Lasell  did  some  real  work  along  her 
line,  domestic  science. 

Doris  Brown  recently  entertained  a  charm- 
ing guest,  Miss  Alice  R.  Johnson  of  Lowell. 

Through  Miss  Parkhurst  we  received  word 
from  Miriam  Nelson  of  the  sudden  passing 
away  of  Mrs.  Crowe,  our  dear  Annie  Crowe 
Collum's,  '09,  mother.  We  do  not  know  as 
yet  any  of  the  particulars,  but  our  hearts  are 
turning  her  way  with  sincere  sympathy. 

"Where  the  king  is,  there  is  the  court."  How 
Jean  McKay  does  create  a  splendid  atmosphere 
wherever  she  is !  In  her  recent  letter  to  Miss 
Packard  she  actually  makes  us  long  to  spend 
these  winter  days  on  that  Montana  ranch. 
Jean  writes,  "I  am  so  very  comfortable  by  my 
cheery  fire  this  cold  winter  night  that  it  is 
easy  for  me  to  forget  the  miles  and  months 
and  just  slip  in  for  an  hour's  cheering  at  per- 
haps your  busiest  hour."  She  reports  that  in- 
fluenza has  found  its  way  even  into  the  open 
and  these  great  Montana  ranches  have  been 
swept  by  its  death  wave.  While  the  excite- 
ment of  peace  came  quietly  to  them  on  their 
ranch,  the  excitement  in  the  towns  was  wild. 
During  the  summer  on  account  of  the  illness 
of  her  father,-  Jean  had  control  of  things  and 
it  is  needless  to  say  was  successful.  With 
her,  as  with  us,  "help  is  difficult."  They  have 
disposed  of  all  their  sheep  save  a  chosen  few. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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among  the  number  Felix,  about  whom  some  of 
us  have  heard  from  time  to  time.  Jean 
writes,  "F  grows  to  be  more  beautiful  day  by 
day  and  to  this  hour  comes  to  warm  his  nose 
at  the  kitchen  fire  and  beg  a  nice  warm  bottle 
of  milk.''  Even  among  a  bunch  of  700  sheep, 
she  had  only  to  call  his  name  and  a  white 
streak  rushed  toward  her  no  matter  how  many 
obstacles  were  in  his  way.  ''The  chickens  are 
all  such  pets  I  haven't  the  heart  to  have  one 
of  them  killed,  so  what  is  to  be  done?"  We 
cannot  answer  you,  Jean,  but  one  thing  we 
are  thankful  for  and  this  is  that  your  big,  ten- 
der heart  does  not  change.  Among  other  things 
Jean  has  had  to  practice  domestic  science  in 
her  own  home.  She  must  have  had  a  large 
family  for  she  speaks  of  putting  a  thirty 
pound  roast  of  beef  in  the  oven  with  a  ques- 
tion, "when  will  it  be  done  ?"  Sometimes 
she  thinks  the  beauty  of  the  winter  in  the 
hills  excels  the  summer.  Of  this  she  writes, 
"The  rising  and  setting  of  the  sun  casting 
such  wondrous  shadows  on  the  white  hills 
and  snow  blue  mountains  are  beyond  the  de- 
scriptive power  of  words.  A  few  nights  ago 
I  had  to  take  the  night  camp  to  a  moving 
band  of  sheep  and  the  spot  selected  was  on 
the  top  of  a  high  divide  where  three  ranges 
of  mountains  could  be  seen  and  to  the  north 
miles  and  miles  of  rolling  hills.  The  setting 
sun  left  rays  of  amethyst,  rose  and  blue,  with 
here  and  there  a  low-lying  shadow  of  mist. 
Then  and  there  it  was  easy  to  forget  war,  the 
cost  of  coal,  and  tomorrow's  baking;  but  as 
every  ointment  has  its  fly,  my  feet  were  cold 
and  I  was  supperless.  The  car  moaned  in 
the  icy  air  and  begged  to  go  home,  but  no 
sheep.  With  a  lantern  some  two  hours  later 
I  attracted  the  herder's  attention  and  soon 
we  'met  up'  and  a  half  hour  later  I  drove 
away  leaving  a  camp  fire  on  the  hillside  from 
which  arose  the  comforting  aroma  of  coffee 
and  bacon.  But  how  I  do  run  on!  You 
have  one  eye  already  on  a  formidable  pile  of 
schedules  and  I  hear  a  fearful  tap  at  your 
door.       Some  poor  child   who  has   failed   in 


Bible  or  wants  to  drop  a  language — if  they 
only  knew  what  gentle  treatment  and  under- 
standing would  be  theirs  from  your  kindly 
self  "they  would  approach  less  fearfully." 
After  sending  her  subscription  to  the  Leaves, 
Jean  closes  with  affectionate  regards  to  her 
Lasell  friends.  We  have  not  asked  her  per- 
mission to  use  her  letter  but  the  same  kind- 
ness she  attributes  to  our  Registrar  is  charac- 
teristic of  herself  so  that  we  feel  in  the  end 
she  will  forgive  us. 

Mrs.  Bertha  L.  Hooker,  one  of  the  new 
members  of  the  faculty  recently  entertained 
her  sister,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Westcott  and  nephew, 
Mark  D.  Lothrop.  We  were  especially  glad 
to  welcome  Mr.  Lothrop,  for  we  are  still  re- 
membering distinctly  how  delightfully  and 
generously  he  entertained  us  at  Thanksgiving 
with  his  splendid  piano  playing. 

One  of  the  happy  features  of  these  Christ- 
mas days  has  been  furnished  us  by  the 
dear  little  children  of  the  Woodland  Park 
School  though  their  Christmas  play  and 
Christmas  carols.  At  the  time  of  the  singing 
of  these  blessed  carols  the  little  ones  left  in 
each  dormitory  a  beautiful  bunch  of  holly  and 
pine  cones,  tied  with  crimson  ribbon,  and  a 
dear  Christmas  card  with  greetings. 

The  annual  Yuletide  custom  of  awakening 
the  school  on  the  last  school  day  with  the  sing- 
ing of  carols  was  observed  by  the  Glee  Club. 
We  cannot  too  often  express  9111-  appreciation 
of  our  Glee  Club  which  did  so  much  to  make 
us  glad  at  this  Christmas  tide. 

Annie  Merrill  David,  '12,  and  her  husband, 
Mr.  Edward  W.  David,  have  received  the  best 
Christmas  gift  possible  this  year  for  on  Dec. 
10,  Olin  Merrill  David  arrived.  Bless  his  lit- 
tle heart !  He  does  not  dream  how  fortunate 
he  is  coming  into  this  particular  home.  Our 
congratulations  to  the  parents  and  boy ! 

Through  Eleanor  Thompson  we  learn  that 
Katherine  Patterson  is  now  a  busy  success- 
ful woman  acting  as  private  secretary  to  her 
uncle,  Mr.  Joseph  N.  Viot,  the  husband  of  our 
Mabel  Case  Voit. 


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HOW  IT  HAPPENED 


They  were  boating, 
Merely  floating, 
Simply  doting — 
Side  by  side. 
Stars  abovely 
Turtle  Dovely, 
Just  as  lovely 
Was  their  ride. 
But  a  notion 
Like  the  motion 
Of  the  ocean 
Seized  his  bride, 
That  she'd  rather 
Try  to  gather 
Bits  of  lather 
On  the  tide. 
Without  thinking, 
Without  blinking, 
Never  shrinking 
She  arose. 
When  he  gotter 
From   the   wotter 
Found  she  otter 
Dry  her  clothes 


Ex 


She  was  seated  by  the  waters, 
The  stream  was  flowing  by ; 
It  cast  its  fair  reflection 
A-glittering  in  her  eye. 
Her  thoughts  were  on  her  Homer, 
Her   heart   was   brightly   glowing. 
When  suddenly  she  noticed 
Her    bath — was    overflowing. 


Wanted :  A  few  new  chairs  in  English  room. 

Webbie  has  gone  through  all  the 
.    old  ones. 
A   few  more  Senior  subjects  to  be 

studied  Friday  nights. 
Some  packages  for  detectives  Heath 

and  James  to  examine. 
Some  new  combs  for  Olive  Chase. 
Some  new  latch-kevs  for  Gardner. 


Senior  examination  papers  sometimes  con- 
tain startling  news.  The  latest  is  that  the 
Euphrates  River  flows  into  the  Pacific  Ocean. 


HEARD  AMONG  THE  SENIORS 


A  little  burn  makes  a  big  smart,  but  a  big 
burn  couldn't  make  some  people  smart. — Ex. 


Where  are  you  going? 

Niagara  Falls. 

(Absent-mindedly)    Oh,   is   that  place   still 


running  r 


LASELL    LEAVES 


17 


WANTED 


THE  CROWN  PRINCE 


Caps  and  gowns — Apply  to  Juniors. 

A  few  fur  coats  for  Saturday  nights. 

Small  hats  with  veils  for  Saturday  nights. 

Excuses  for  being  late  to  meals. 

Curls  like  H.  Decker's. 

A  voice  like  G.  Lucas'. 

Love  letters  for  Ted  Durland. 

British  officer  for  Lib  Berger. 

Kid  brother  for  Mim. 

Appetite  like  M.  Cameron's. 

A  "gate"  like  Sis  Greene's. 


LASELL'S  ARMY 


Carl  Kuhn 
Pinky  Alden 
Jimmy  James 
Flattery 

Student  Council 
Al   Phillips 
Fran  O'Brien 
Eleanor  Beaman 
Phil  Rowe 
F.  Hamilton 


General   Business 
General  Information 
General  Nuisance 
Major  Uniform 
Corporal  Punishment 
Private  Property 
Colonel  Nut 
General  Disturbance 
General  Emergency 
Orderly 


SONGS  AND  SONGSTERS 


"Fishing" 

"Smiles" 

"When  You  Look  in  liei 

Eyes" 
"Starlight" 
"Two  Gozinto  One" 
"Sweet  Heart(s)" 
"I'd  Like  to  be  a  Monkey 

in  the  Zoo" 
"Hail,  Hail  the  Gang's  All 

Here" 
"Oh,  Frenchy" 
"That  Syncopated  Tune" 
"Oh,  How  I  Hate  to  Get 

Up  in  the  Morning" 
"You  Said  Something" 
"Funny  Little  Something" 


Almost  any  Junior 
M.  Eaton 

Cinta 

Virginia  Quarles 
Al  and  Jimmy 
Gladys  and  Edith 

D.  Hopper 

The  Seniors 
Alice  Nicholson 

E.  Murray 

G.  Trafton 
Webbie 
Dora  Maxwell 


"His  nose  is  red 
His  eyes  are  blue 
His  chin  recedes 
His  armies  too." — Ex. 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 

{Continued from  page  12) 
land  Park,  hereby  making  you  our  hon- 
orary member.     We  give  it  to  you  on  an 
open  book,  the  symbol  of  the  knowledge 
and  understanding  we  shall  gain  here.  We 
tie  it  with  our  school  colors,  so  pledging 
our  love  and  loyalty.    We  mean  you  shall 
always  be  proud  of  Woodland  Park." 
Evilda  Cheng  acted  as  Key  bearer  and  did 
her  sweetest  and  best.  Mrs.  Winslow,  although 
entirely   unprepared   for   the  little    ceremony, 
proved  herself  quite  equal  to  the  occasion  and 
responded  most  graciously,  giving     the     girls 
just  the  words  they  needed  as  a  help  in  grow- 
ing to  be  earnest  and  lovely  women.    As  a  fit- 
ting close  to  the  program,   Donald  Winslow L 
very    sweetly    recited    Emerson's    "Father    in 
Heaven,  we  thank  Thee." 

King  Winter  must  indeed  have  been  grati- 
fied at  the  reception  given  his  first  snow  storm. 
Almost  before  the  eyes  of  the  elders  were 
really  open,  cries  of  "Oh !  see  the  snow," 
"Now  we  can  coast,"  etc.,  etc.,  greeted  their 
ears.  Although  the  path  was  carefully  ploughed 
to  the  Seminary,  only  the  deepest  places  at- 
tracted most  of  us  for  walking  to  breakfast. 

Muffins  and  jam  were  discussed  more  or  less 
at  length,  but  the  connection  between  girl,  sled 
and  hill  was  made  without  delay.  Since  then 
coasting  has  been  the  chief  sport  and  while 
bruises  have  been  the  portion  of  some,  we  are 
still  at  it.  When  it  dares  to  rain,  the  deepest 
regret  is  voiced  on  all  sides,  Inez  leading  with 
"Poor  snow,  now  it  will  be  no  more." 

We  are  all  anticipating  our  holidays  at  home, 
but  are  at  the  same  time  thinking  pleasantly  of 
being  together  again  January  8. 


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Pure,  delicious, 
wkolesome 
A  well  made  cup  of  [ 

BAKERS  COCOA 

is  a  larde  part  of  a 
bod  meal. 


It  is  practically"  all 
nutrition, very  little 
•waste,  and  its  use 
saves  other  roods. 

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BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


A  Linen  Store 
for  Over  100  Years 


At  all   times,  you  can  most  adequately  satisfy  at  "The 
Boston  Linen  Stores"  all  your  needs  in 

Linens  Wash  Goods 

Towels  White  Goods 

Sheets  and  Cases  Laces 

Blankets  Neckwear 

Handkerchiefs  Art  Embroideries 

Veilings  Yarns  and  Knit 

Goods 

Newness,  distinctiveness,  dependable  quality  and  moderate 

price  characterize  every  purchase 

Mail  Orders  Receive  Careful  Attention 

T.  D.  Whitney  Company 

West  Street  BOSTON         Temple  Place 


Let  us  \novo  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 
WALTHAM 


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CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


Nmihm  ©rust  (Uompatuj 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-12 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese.  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH. 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phones  Richmond  202-203-3087 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 


A  FRIEND 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 

BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


Tel.  Richmond  1463 


Osmon  C.  Bailey,  Pres 


Lowell  Bros.  &  Bailey  Co. 

FRUIT  &  PRODUCE 

69,   71    and   73  Clinton  Street 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


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at  our  afjop,  taljrrr  itjr£  mill  ftttJn  a 

full  asaortmrnt  of  ar aanttablr  fhmrcra 

at  rpaannablr  prirra. 

3Ijr  aalraproplr  arr  artiata  tufjn  arr 

rraug  to  auggrat  aometfjing  "oiflferrttt" 

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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for    those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place        15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 

HtUmgnt 
att&  3flura 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,    90    and    92,    16    and    17    North   Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GL1DDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.    RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  Cumming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT    P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 
Store  77-79  Sudbury  St.  Boston,  Mass. 


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SKIRTS      Specially  Priced 


Smart  plaid  skirts  in  black  and 
white  and  navy  and  white.  Box 
plaited  model  with  belt.  Special 

$19.50 

Plaid   skirts  in   all    the  new- 
est   color    combinations,    up-to- 
date  model  with  belt.     Special 
$15.00 

Serge  skirts,  new  fall  and  win- 
ter models,  in  navy  and   black 
$16.50 

Wool  back  satin  skirts  in  navy, 
taupe  and  black,  finished  with 
pockets  and  belt  $19.50 


C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 


T.    E.    MOSELEY    CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model   in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.   Also  in  Black  or  Brown 

Calf    with    Buckskin    Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


2L  p.  KjolUmtar  &  (Ho. 

Misses'     and     Young    Ladies' 

Suits,     Coats     and     Dresses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  Wear 

at  Popular  Prices 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 

Iflttteuarfc  Jlljarmarg 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


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BEACH   1561 

PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

"That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  day" 

The  Boston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 
BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specially 


rax  Brothers 

TZop/srs 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

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ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 
22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipts 

Packed   in   Stone  Jars 

A.   T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577   Haymarket 
Send   for  price  list   of  over  60   kinds 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
•ffyarmarto 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to    $65.00 
Guitars   -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.   Capodanno   &   Sons 

Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

Domestic  Fruits 

Confectionery,    Cigars 

and  Tobacco 

331  AUBURN  ST.,       AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 
Tel.  Con.    1275  N.  W. 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1907 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6   BOYLSTON   PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic    Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach   1  45 


TELEPHONES 
Richmond   SS3,  885 


RUDOLF  STOLAR 


R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New    Faneuil    Hall    Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


BUNKER  HIIL 

COFFEE 


makesyour  brcakf asf 
doubly  enjoyable, 
li  is  a  new  dehdht 
every  mornind 

FRESH  GROUND  ALWAYS  IN 
THE  RED  BUNKER  HILL  BAC 


DELANO  POTTER  C- CO.  BOSTON  MASS 


The    most     delicate    and      delicious   flavored 
chocolate    to    be    found   anywhere 


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Vol.  XXXXIV  No.  4 


JANUARY,  1919 


LASELL    LEAVES 


New  England's  Greatest  Store 

IS  FULLY  EQUIPPED  TO  SUPPLY 

STUDENTS'  REQUIREMENTS 

OF  PRACTICALLY  EVERY  KIND  AND  NATURE 


Wearing  Appatel  in  Unlimited  Assortments. 
Furniture,  Rugs,  Pictures,  Draperies,  Room  Ornaments. 

Books,  Music,  Writing  Materials,  Cameras,  Gift  Articles,  and  the  multitude  of 
other  things  School  and  College  Life  demands. 

A 11  at  prices  as  low  as  (or  lower  than)  can  be  found  anywhere  for 
like  quality  —  Free  Delivery  in  Massachusetts  of  any  purchase. 


Jordan  Marsh  Company 

Washington,  Avon,  Summer,  Bedford  and  Chauncy  Streets 


Boston 


SUMMER'ST. 
New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 

Diamonds  Combs             -  Fountain  Pens 

Watches  Aluminum  Hair  Ornaments     Brass  Goods 

Bracelet  Watches  Roman  Pearls  Opera  Glasses 

Platinum  Jewelry  Cameo  Brooches  Chafing  Dishes 

Green  Gold  Jewelry  Vanity  Cases  Percolators 

Gold  Pocket  Knives  Doreen  Boxes  Parisian  Ivory 

Gold  Pencils  Photo  Frames  Ebony  Goods 

Silver  Goods  Leather  Goods  Panel  Mirrors 

Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 

Our    Watch    and    Jewelry     Repair     Department*    do  the  best 
work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving    Department 

Plate   and    100  Visiting   Cards.    Script     $1.75 
Plate   and     50  Visiting   Cards.  Old  Eng.  $2.75 


MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON 


AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161   Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


OSTON* 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


21  West  St. 
Tel.  Beach  952 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Let  us  knou)  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 
WALTHAM 


Tel.  Richmond  1463 


Osmon  C.  Bailey,  Pres. 


Lowell  Bros.  &  Bailey  Co. 

FRUIT  &  PRODUCE 

69,  71   and  73  Clinton  Street 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


BUNKER  HILL 

COFFEE 


makesjour  breakfast 
doubly  enjoyable . 
It  is  a  new  delight 
every  mornino" 

FRESH  GROUND  ALWAYS  IN 
THE  RED  BUNKER  HILL  BAG 


DELANO  POTTER  C-CO.  BOSTON  MASS 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Here  You  Pay  No  Fee 

GO  TO  lawyer  or  doctor  for  advice  and  you  rightly 
expect  to  pay.  Come  to  us  for  advice  and  it  costs 
you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
what  wrong.  You  may  follow  their  advice  or  not.  Cost 
is  the  same  — nothing. 

JOHN   H.  PRAY  &  SONS  CO. 

646   Washington  St.,   Opposite  Boylston  St.,  Boston 


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A  BOARDING  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS  AND  A  COUNTRY  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS,  AND  FOR  BOYS  UNDER  TEN 

THE  JUNIOR  DEPARTMENT  OF  LASELL  SEMINARY 

Located  in  attractive  and  comfortable  buildings  formerly  known  as  the  Woodland  Park  Hotel 

ALL  GRAMMAR  GRADES 

Conversational  French,-  Music  with  supervised  practice,  Drawing,  Sewing,  Folk  and  Social 
Dancing  and  Deportment,  Swimming  and  Riding ;  Individual  attention ;  an  abundance  of  good 
wholesome  food,  fresh  air,  exercise  and  sleep. 

VISITORS  ALWAYS  WELCOME 

Come  and  see  the  school  and  talk  over  the  problem. 
For  catalogue  address 

GUY  M.  WINSLOW 

PHONE,  NEWTON  WEST  630  AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


IkSELL    FEAVES 


Vol.  XXXXIV 


LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  JANUARY,  1919 


No.  4 


Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
Entered  as  second-class  matter  at  the  Boston,  Mass.,  Post  Office. 
Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rate  of  postage  provided  for  in  Section  1103,  Act  of  October  3,  1917,  authorized  on  October  28, 1918. 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business  Manager 
DOROTHY  HOPPER 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES  O'BRIEN 

Subscription  Editor 

EDITH   VANCE 

Assistant 

Local  Editors 

CAROLIE  ABRAMS 

VIRGINIA  QUARLES 

Assistant  Editor 

DOROTHY  BALCH 

•FRANCES   HEATH 

Literary  Editor 
MARY   HOPKINS 

Joke  Editor 
PRISCILLA  ALDEN 

Assistant 
(CATHERINE   RICE 

Art  Editors 
MERCIE  NICHOLS 
LEILYA  BARKMAN 

Exchange  Editors 
SARAH   HOPKINS 
DOROTHY  HALL 

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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

Making  Good D.  Hopper,  P.  Rowe  5 

Christmas  Magazines M.  Hopkins  7 

His   Lesson E.  Wilson  8 

EDITORIAL    , 9 

LOCALS  10 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES : 11 

PERSONAL '. 13 

JOKES 17 

SUPPLEMENT 18 

EXCHANGES 22 


A  CLASS  IN  COOKING 


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MAKING  GOOD 


As  she  laid  down  the  letter  which  had  just 
come  from  her  son,  her  first  thoughts  were  of 
what  her  husband  would  say.  She  sighed  a 
little  as  she  realized  that  this  was  another  case 
between  her  husband  and  her  son.  Then  she 
read  the  letter  over  again,  and  wondered 
whether  he  were  going  to  war  realizing  what 
war  meant,  or  regarding  it  as  a  lark,  which  his 
letter  indeed  suggested.  She  wished  he  had 
not  said,  "Get  Dad  to  speak  to  some  of  his 
friends,  because  you  know,  Mother,  it  would 
help  me  to  get  a  commission  at  Plattsburg." 
Why  did  he  always  say,  "Get  Dad  to  do  it?" 

She  loved  her  son  devotedly,  and  she  loved 
also  her  husband.  She  knew  Dick's  faults  all 
too  well,  yet  could  not  help  resenting  the  fact 
that  her  husband  knew  them,  too.  Dick's  fa- 
ther had  been  just  such  a  man  as  his  son  now 
-  promised  to  be — attractive,  a  dreamer,  but  nev- 
er a  success.  He  had  died,  leaving  her  with 
her  small  son,  but  nothing  with  which  to  sup- 
port him.  Mrs.  Mason  was  a  woman  of 
charm  and  no  little  beauty  and  in  a  compara- 
tively short  time  had  married  again,  this  time 
a  Mr.  Cadwell  Taylor,  a  man  of  means  and 
culture.  He  was  a  very  successful  lawyer, 
and  was  able  to  give  her  both  a  social  position 
and  an  elegant  home.  Mrs.  Taylor's  fond, 
but  certainly  rather  irrational,  hope  for  her 
son  was  that  he  might  grow  up  to  resemble 
rather  his  step-father  than  his  father,  in  his 
ways  and  abilities.  In  this,  however,  she  was 
destined   to   be   disappointed,    for    Dick  grew 


to  be  quite  as  good  looking  as  his  father  and 
as  irresponsible.  Many  times  did  her  hus- 
band remind  her  of  this  fact,  for  he  was  often 
tried  with  the  boy's  lack  of  response  to  the 
serious  things  of  life.  In  time  Dick  went  to 
college,  and  found  more  doors  open  to  him 
in  his  college  town  as  Cadwell  Taylor's  son 
than  he  would  have  as  Ralph  Mason's.  When 
finally  the  foolish  youth  had  been  dismissed 
from  college,  Cadwell  Taylor's  influence  it  was 
that  got  him  safely  back  into  it  again.  Alice 
Taylor  had  tried  in  vain  to  think  of  a  time 
when  her  handsome  slacker  had  really  done 
anything  worth  while  by  himself,  even  for 
himself. 

She  dreaded  telling  her  husband  of  this  la- 
test request ;  she  knew  his  answer  even  before 
she  asked.  Mr.  Taylor  would  be  willing  to 
do  as  she  desired,  but  he  would  do  it  in  such 
a  way  that  it  would  be  amply  evident  that  he 
was  consciously  bestowing  a  favor  upon  his 
wife's  graceless  son.  At  times  she  hotly  re- 
sented Dick's  deplorable  lack  of  any  decent 
pride,  but  usually  she  hastily  smothered  such 
thoughts  as  disloyal  to  him. 

That  evening  she  spoke  casually  of  the  let- 
ter and  the  boy's  desire  to  enter  the  army. 

"Good !  It  might  be  the  making  of  him.  I'll 
see  about  it  tomorrow,"  was  Mr.  Taylor's 
reply. 

And  so  it  came  about  that  Richard  Mason 
entered  Plattsburg.  It  could  certainly  be  said 
that  it  was  through  Mr.  Taylor's  influence 
that  Dick  now  got  up  earlier  than  he  ever  had 
before,  that  he  grew  accustomed  to  hardships 


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and  eventually  made  good;  but  Mr:  Taylor  ap- 
parently never  forgot  that  it  was  he  who  se- 
cured Dick's  admission  and  he  intended,  so 
it  seemed,  that  Dick,  too,  should  never  forget 
it.  Mrs.  Taylor  was  secrectly  provoked  by  her 
husband's  oft  repeated  boast  that  it  was  lucky 
for  Dick  that  he  had  spoken  to  various  offi- 
cers and  men  in  charge;  but  of  course  she 
could  say  nothing  of  this  to  him.  Dick,  for 
his  part,  was  flatteringly  profuse  in  his  thanks 
to  his  step-father  and  very  sincere,  too — it  nev- 
er occurred  to  him  not  to  be.  But  Dick  was 
changing. 

The  change  was  apparent  for  the  first  time 
when  the  young  man  came  home  on  leave,  a 
first  lieutenant.  Mrs.  Taylor  was  proud  of 
him ;  he  was  as  fine  looking  a  soldier  as  one 
could  wish  to  see.  Army  life  seemed  to  have 
given  him  a  new  dignity,  a  more  compelling 
personality.  He  was,  as  usual,  rather  proud 
of  himself,  and  especially  that  he  had  been  one 
of  the  few  to  be  recommended  for  immediate 
overseas  service  His  step-father  greeted  him. 
warmly  and  evidently  felt  not  a  little  pride  in 
his  soldier  son,  as  a  man  might  be  proud  of 
his  own  invention.  This  feeling  he  showed  in 
several  remarks  during  the  evening.  Mrs.  Tay- 
lor paid  no  attention  to  this,  but  Dick,  himself, 
seemed  a  little  ill  at  ease,  and  finally  he  broke 
out  with : 

"Oh,  I  say,  Dad.  I  grant  that  it  was 
through  'pull'  I  got  into  camp,  but  you  will 
have  to  admit  that  'pull'  wouldn't  get  me  up 
every  morning,  keep  me  studying  and  drilling 
hard  till  I  was  almost  exhausted,  and  finally 
win  my  little  bar  for  me !" 

Mr.  Taylor  smiled  in  a  superior  manner, 
"My  dear  boy,  do  you  ever  think  for  one 
minute  that  you  could  have  made  good  if  it 
had  not  been  for  me?" 

This  was  the  beginning  of  a  conversation 
that  finally  ended  in  an  open  break,  Mr.  Tay- 
lor declaring  that  Dick  was  an  ingrate — "just 
what  I  should  have  expected  of  you"  ;  and  Dick 
retorting  that  he  would  yet  prove  to  his  step- 
father that  he  could  succeed  without  further 
assistance. 


Of  course,  after  this  disagreement  the  young 
officer  soon  left  for  camp,  whence  after  dis- 
couraging weeks  of  delay,  he  sailed  for 
France.  Here  was  repeated,  only  in  worse 
form,  the  monotonous  camp  life  he  had  had 
at  home.  The  men  did  no  fighting  and  the 
eternal  drilling  and  waiting  wore  down  their 
patience  ;  but  Dick  had  now  a  purpose,  a  steady 
aim,  a  burning  desire.  Henceforth  what  he 
should  become  he  would  owe  to  himself,  not 
to  his  father.  He  was  clearly  beginning  to 
prove  himself  a  man.  Popular  with  his  supe- 
rior officers  and  with  the  men,  he  willingly 
took  responsibility  and  was  presently  known 
as  a  man  who  could  be  depended  upon.  The 
acquiring  of  this  reputation  had  not  been  easy, 
however.  There  had  been  many  times  when 
he  had  been  tempted,  to  acknowledge  himself 
a  quitter,  and  just  to  "chuck  it"  all.  But  he 
had  not  yielded,  and  now,  at  last,  he  was  fast 
coming  into  his  ovyn. 

Then  one  glorious  day  they  were  sent  to 
the  front  to  relieve  a  British  regiment.  The 
young  officer's  training  stood  the  severest  test 
so  that  he  was  often  put  in  command  of  very 
important  scouting  parties.  His  company  was 
always  successful,  and  the  men  loved  and  hon- 
ored their  leader.  One  day,  however,  Dick 
was  not  so  fortunate ;  he  was  wounded  in  a 
skirmish  and  sent  back  of  the  lines  to  a  hos- 
pital. He  had  not  yet  learned  to  be  entire  mas- 
ter of  himself  and  so  his  impatience  and  dis- 
regard of  regulations  retarded  his  own  recov- 
ery; but  at  last  after  several  weeks  he  was 
sent  back  to  rejoin  his  division. 

During  an  attack  made  a  little  later  he  was 
severely  wounded,  but  this  time  he  could  not 
return  to  his  company.  His  left  leg  had  to  be 
amputated,  and  he  was  billeted  for  home. 
Here  was  a  real  test.  Could  he  go  home  smil- 
ing— or  would  he  funk  this  last  great  trial? 
He  was  mentioned  for  distinguished  service. 
This  made  his  mother  especially  proud  of  him. 
He  had  surely  done  this  thing  himself.  Ml 
Taylor  was  skeptical  about  it  and  said  dryly 
that  luck  was  coming  Dick's  way. 

But  when  Dick  came  home  smiling- — smil- 


LASELL    LEAVES 


ing  in  spite  of  his  maimed  condition,  Mr.  Tay- 
lor gave  him  heartiest  greetings  and  was  evi- 
dently moved;  for  it  was  with  a  catch  in  his 
voice  that  he  said  as  he  bent  over  the  boy's 
hand  shut  in  both  his  own  with  a  firm  clasp, 
'Dick,  you've  made  good.  This  is  just  the 
best  in  the  world  !" 

The  face  of  the  young  soldier  lighted  up 
with  a  sudden  glow  as  he  answered,  "Thanks, 
Dad!  Tell  Mother  that!  I  would  rather 
hear  that  from  you  than  all  the  honorable  men- 
tion they  could  give  me." 

Dorothy  Hopper, 
Phyllis  Rozve. 


CHRISTMAS  MAGAZINES 


Only  a  few  minutes  to  catch  that  train !  And 
away  I  flew,  darting  and  running  here  and 
there  into  every  opening  in  the  Christmas 
crowd  that  would  shorten  the  distance  between 
me  and  the  station.  After  much  needless 
pushing  and  crowding  I  found  myself  in  the 
station  at. track  fifteen  with,  after  all,  twenty 
minutes  still  to  spare  before  the  long  journey 
home.  My  eye  caught  the  bright  array  of 
magazine  covers  in  a  nearby  stand,  and,  of 
course,  I  couldn't  go  by  without  at  least  look- 
ing at  them. 

What  is  there  so  different  about  Christmas 
magazines  from  all  others?  Perhaps  it  is  the 
covers.  The  first  one  that  especially  took  my 
fancy  pictured  a  tiny  little  boy,  fast  asleep, 
with  a  fuzzy,  brown,  teddy-bear  clutched  firm- 
ly in  one  chubby  fist.  Around  and  above  him 
were  dream  balls,  horns,  aeroplanes,  a  Jack- 
in-the-box  and  a  wonderful  drum.  It  reminded 
me  so  much  of  the  old  Christmases  at  home, 
when  we  used  to  fill  the  children's  stockings 
and  decorate  the  tree  after  they  were  far  away 
in  Dreamland,  that  I  simply  had  to  buy  one  for 
"old  time's  sake."  But  I  spied  another  which 
I  couldn't  pass,  for  it  had  on  it  four  of  the 
healthiest,  j oiliest  looking  soldiers  and  sailors 
imaginable,   waving   a    "Merry    Christmas   to 


Everybody".  This  surely  expressed  the  true 
attitude  of  every  single  boy  in  American  ser- 
vice to  the  folks  back  home.  So  this  one  also 
found  a  place  under  my  arm.  But  I  now  put 
aside  the  temptation  of  looking  at  the  maga- 
zines any  more  and  hurried  to  my  train. 

In  a  few  moments  I  was  settled  down  ready 
to  look  beyond  the  covers.  I  found,  to  be 
sure,  some  interesting  serial  stories  and  short 
articles  on  "Our  Soldiers'  Christmas",  "When 
They  Come  Back",  and  "Dollars  and  a  Heart", 
but  the  greater  part  of  the  story  section  was 
crowded  with  tales  of  good,  happy,  wonderful, 
extraordinary,  startling,  amusing  and  every 
other  possible  kind  of  Christmases,  when  San- 
ta Claus  appeared,  reappeared  and  disap- 
peared, or  even  didn't  appear  at  all.  But  I 
couldn't  think  of  digesting  all  this  without 
further  investigation  of  the  printed  matter 
under  those  interesting  covers. 

Next  I  discovered  a  picture  section  of  the 
dearest,  darlingest  babies  one  could  possibly 
imagine.  One  whole  page  was  devoted  to 
bawling,  howling  babies ;  another  to  the  laugh- 
ing, kicking  variety;  and  another,  to  assorted 
ones,  some  playing  and  others  happily  en- 
grossed in  one  another.  All  through  these 
pages  I  found  little  scraps  of  Christmas  verse 
or  bright  Christmas  wishes,  Christmas  pray- 
ers and  suggestions  for  making  somebody 
else's.  Christmas  happy. 

Last,  but  by  no  means  least,  was  the 
Christmas  present  section — perhaps  the  most 
enchanting  of  all  in  my  excited  state  of  mind, 
when  every  minute  I  was  approaching  nearer 
the  expectant  family  circle.  Here  is  just  the 
thing  for  Dad  or  Brother.  Mother  simply 
must  have  one  of  the  alluring  things  on  this 
page,  and  Sister  would  be  so  pleased  with 
this  big  doll. 

So  on  through  the  list  I  went,  becoming 
more  and  more  excited  over  the  wonders  of 
Christmas  magazines,  but  if  you  should  ask 
me  now  why  they  are  different  from  all  oth- 
ers I  think  I  should  say,  "Because  every  page 
is  alive  with  the  true  Christmas  spirit". 

Mary  Hopkins. 


LASELL  LEAVES 


HIS  LESSON 


It  was  in  the  trenches  that  George  Fuller 
came  to  realize  his  mistake.  He  had  always 
been  a  handsome  fellow,  of  strong  athletic 
build  and  rather  winsome  ways,  and  that  to- 
gether with  his  being  an  only  and  too  much 
indulged  child,  was  the  root  of  his  trouble. 

When,  years  before,  he  had  entered  school, 
he  was  truly  a  lovable  little  chap,  and  quickly 
won  the  hearts  of  both  his  teachers  and  his 
playmates,  who  were  not  long  in  discovering 
that  the  youngster  possessed,  together  with  a 
pleasant  personality,  the  faculty  of  quickly 
learning  his  lessons.  As  their  admiration  in- 
creased and  he  grew  older,  he  gradually  be- 
came unhealthily  aware  of  his  popularity,  and, 
as  so  often  happens,  abused  it,  first  by  doing 
little  things  in  school  which  irritated  his 
teachers  and  amused  his  boy  friends.  He  felt 
safe  in  this  because  he  counted  upon  their  af- 
fection for  him  to  avert  punishment  and  any 
unpleasant  quarrels.  It  was  not  long  before 
he  advanced  to  a  further  and  more  serious 
stage  of  wrong-doing,  which  naturally  de- 
lighted the  worse  element  among  his  school- 
mates ;  for  many  are  too  cowardly  to  do  cer- 
tain evil  things  themselves,  but  are  glad  to 
have  another  do  them.  Now  a  fellow  pointed 
out  as  a  "dare-devil"  seldom  lacks  admirers 
among  young  people,  especially  if  he  is  physi- 
cally attractive  and  a  "good  mixer".  Of 
course  his  change  of  heart  was  soon  appar- 
ent at  his  home,  where  his  mother,  at  first, 
regarded  his  pranks  with  amusement,  some- 
thing her  darling  would  soon  outgrow  and  for- 
get. Thus,  by  degrees,  he  came  to  be  a  wil- 
ful, disagreeable  lad,  bent  only  on  his  own 
follies ;  and  his  parents,  with  dismay,  realized 
too  late  that  his  bad  conduct  was  becoming 
confirmed  habit,  and  that  he  had  already  made 
friends  with  the  bold  and  bad  among  other 
boys,  learning  all  too  surely  their  evil  ways. 
This  deplorable  companionship  seemed  to  have 
come  about  from  their  praise  of  his  ability  as 
a  pitcher  on  the  school  baseball  team.  George, 
flattered  to  the  height,  ceased  to  think  anything 


of  much  importance  save  that  he  was  "in 
right"  with  the  biggest  bullies  in  the  school. 
He  was  too  keen  a  fellow  not  to  note  that  his 
former  mates,  boys  of  a  better  class,  were  not 
as  cordial  as  of  old,  but  small-mindedly  as- 
cribed the  fact  to  jealousy  on  their  part.  His 
mother,  as  too  often  happens  in  such  cases, 
learned  the  entire  truth  of  the  matter  only 
after  everyone  else  had  been  discussing  it  for 
months,  and  her  son  had  come  almost  wholly 
under  the  influence  of  a  group  of  reckless,  un- 
principled companions.  Realizing  how  sadly 
she  had  failed  in  her  duty,  she,  now  that  she 
understood  the  situation,  tried  to  make  George 
see  his  behavior  as  did  other  people ;  but  her 
attempt  proved  a  failure.  Yet,  since  he  loved 
his  mother,  or  thought  he  did,  he  did  not  like 
to  see  the  sad  look  in  her  eyes,  but  to  set  her 
mind  at  ease,  promised  to  drop  his  bad  asso- 
ciates. The  next  time  the  fellows  met  him 
after  this,  they  noticed  his  uneasiness,  and 
when  he  refused  to  join  them  in  a  project 
they  had  on  hand,  taunted  him  with  coward- 
ice and  with  being  mother's  baby.  This  treat- 
ment was  new  to  him  and  proved  more  than 
he  had  character  to  withstand,  after  having 
so  long  been  one  of  them.  His  good  resolu- 
tion melted  away,  like  a  ripple  in  the  water. 

The  happiness  of  his  little  mother,  who  for 
a  time  knew  nothing  of  all  this,  was  a  con- 
stant pang  to  the  boy;  then  came  the  discov- 
ery of  his  faithlessness,  and  again  the  sad 
and  weary  look  came  back  into  her  eyes.  And 
George  ?  George  was  a  very  unhappy,  discon- 
tented boy.  His  pals  were  daily  becoming 
more  and  more  suspected  and  disliked,  and  for 
their  misdeeds  suspension  from,  school  hung 
over  them  as  the  sword  over  the  head  of  Dam- 
ocles. One  day  he  returned  home  in  a  more 
irritable  mood  than  usual,  a  day,  unfortunate- 
ly, when  his  father,  had  determined  to  take  a 
hand  in  his  affairs.  George  was  very  unreason- 
able, and  after  several  unsuccessful  arguments 
with  him,  his  father  became  angry.  The  re- 
sult was  that  the  hot-headed,  passionate  boy 
decided  that  the  easiest  way  to  escape  further 

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January  begins  for  us  not  only  the  first  of  a 
new  year  but  also  of  our  last  school  term. 
Since  we  have  decided  to  omit  most  of  our 
Easter  vacation  because  of  our  "Flu  Vaca- 
tion" in  the  fall,  this  term  is  going  to  be  a  long 
one.  Don't  begin  it  by  wishing  time  away; 
there  is  so  much  to  do,  so  much  to  learn,  that 
the  weeks  will  all  pass  too  soon.  Let  us  try 
and  create  a  friendly  spirit  of  competition.  If 
every  girl  in  the  school  strove  to  be  first  in 
her  studies,  to  be  first  in  some  branch  of  ath- 
letics and  to  do  the  best  Red  Cross  work,  she 
would  soon  greatly  raise  her  individual  stan- 
dard of  achievement  as  well  as  that  of  our 
school. 

We  have  all  heard  girls  say,  "Oh,  I  don't 
like  her;  she  agrees  with  everything  everyone 
says".  True,  we  can't  like  or  even  dislike 
these  people  who  mean  to  be  nice  to  everyone, 
but  who  are  unknowingly  weak  hypocrites. 
Have  your  own  opinions.  Don't  be  afraid  of 
disagreeing  with  others.  It  usually  does  them 
good  and  it  certainly  strengthens  you.  Don't 
be  a  colorless,  negative,  "wish-washy"  person. 
At  present,  the  world  greatly  needs  strong,  pos- 
itive characters. 


The  Student  Council  needs  the  co-operation 
of  every  single  girl  in  the  school  to  help  it  to 
run  smoothly.  Its  aim  is  to  encourage  us  to 
uphold  the  standards  of  Lasell.  One  of  the 
hardest  things  to  remember  is  that  there  should 
be  no  talking  in  the  halls  during  school  hours. 


This  tendency  is  most  noticeable  when  the 
chapel  bell  rings.  Somehow  we  all  find  things 
which  we  simply  must  plan.  Remember  that 
after  fifteen  minutes  of  absolute  quiet  you  can 
do  that  talking  and  planning  that  simply  could 
not  wait.  There  are  to  be  Student  Council 
members  stationed  in  different  parts  of  the 
building  just  to  remind  you,  but  they  dislike 
to  have  to>  speak.  Will  you  all  try  to  help? 
See  if  next  time  you  can't  think  before  you  call 
down  the  length  of  the  corridor,  "Mary,  wait 
a  minute,  I  have  the  best  news  to  tell  you !" 


This  is  just  the  best  time  of  the  year  for 
fun.  Skating,  coasting,  and  snow-shoeing  are 
great  sport.  Possibly  yuur  roommate  has  nev- 
er had  these  opportunities.  Take  her  out  and 
teach  her  to  enjoy  the  winter  sports.  After  a 
fine  skate  in  the  winter  air,  a  problem  in 
mathematics  seems  less  puzzling. 


Have  you  paid  your  war  pledge?  Why  wait 
until  March  ?     Do  it  now  ! 


AN  APPRECIATION 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  Miss  Potter  and 
Miss  Packard  wish  to  thank  the  students  pres- 
ent and  past  for  the  kindly  greetings  that  came 
at  the  Christmas  tide.  They  were  much  appre- 
ciated both  for  the  personal  touch  and  for  the 
message  that  they  implied  of  continued  loyalty 
to  the  school  of  their  choice. 


Saturday  afternoon,  Dec.  14,  in  place  of 
Bible  class,  Dr.  George  Martin  gave  a  Christ- 
mas reading.  He  read  from  the  Old  and 
the  New  Testaments  the  story  of  Christ's 
coming  and  showed  how  clearly  the  two  ac- 
counts agree.  Herod,  the  Wise  Men,  and 
the  Shepherds,  who  went  to  Jesus,  represented 
respectively  the  power,  the  learning,  and  the 
people  of  that  time.  These,  in  turn,  repre- 
sented jealousy,  humble  reverence,  and  the 
real  Christmas  spirit.  Dr.  Martin  read  some 
poems  on  the  angels,  the  shepherds,  and  the 
Christ-child;  and  brought  to  us  a  deeper  real- 
ization of  the  meaning  of  Christmas. 


Christian  Endeavor,  Tuesday  evening,  Dec. 
17,  was  a  real  Christmas  service.  It  was  led 
by  Ethel  Ramage,  who  spoke  of  the  love  and 
unselfishness  that  should  be  in  our  hearts  at 
this  time.  Helen  Webster  sang  a  Christmas 
carol   during   the   service. 


Student    Council    members     for    this    year 
have  been  announced.     They  are : 

Priscilla  Alden 
Gertrude  Edwards 


Frances  O'Brien 
Virginia  Smith 
Leilya  Barkman 
Virginia  Quarles 
Carolie  Abrams 
Katherine   Rice 
Katherine  Tufts 
Margaret  Cameron 
Helen  O'Brien 
Frances  Heath 
Ruth  Watson 
Janet  Edgerly 

.  At  the  last  meeting,  Carolie  Abrams  was 
elected  Vice-President  and  Virginia  Quarles, 
Secretary. 


On  Wednesday  evening,  Dec.  18,  John 
Kendrick  Bangs  spoke  at  the  Congregational 
Church.  In  place  of  his  usual  humorous  lec- 
ture, Mr.  Bangs,  who  has  been  abroad  with 
the  American  Committee  for  Devastated 
France,  spoke  of  the  cities  of  France,  especial- 
ly Paris ;  and  paid  a  wonderful  tribute  to  the 
French  people. 

From  Bordeaux  Mr.  Bangs  went  to  Paris, 
a  city  "ennobled  by  its  sufferings  and  resigned 
to  sorrow,  but  a  city  resolved  that  the  Huns 
should  not  break  through".     In  spite  of  the 


LASELL    LEAVES 


11 


signs  of  intense  suffering,  there  was  no  de- 
spair nor  fright.  This  was  well  illustrated  by 
the  cheerfulness  and  courage  of  the  wounded 
and  maimed  that  had  fought  for  France  and 
been  returned  to  Paris.  There  were  not,  as 
have  been  reported,  mobs,  violence,  and  break- 
ing down  of  French  civilian  morale.  They  were 
able  to  meet  the  bombardments  with  indiffer- 
ence, but  the  night  raids  were  avoided  as  much 
as  possible;  the  morale  of  the  French,  how- 
ever, is  immovable. 

Mr.  Bangs  then  spoke  of  our  present  deal- 
ings with  the  Germans.  They  are  asking  for 
humanity  and  mercy,  but  are  forgetting  to 
speak  of  repentance,  repentance  for  maiming 
children,  for  bombarding  hospitals,  for  break- 
ing faith.  Germany  shall  have  Justice,  but 
Justice  is  not  to  forgive  and  forget.  The 
Americans  in  France  are  a  revelation  to  the 
vvorld.  They  faced  war  with  laughter  and  it 
was  this  that  baffled  the  Germans :  they  can't 
understand  men  of  that  calibre.  America, 
through  this  great  world  war,  has  developed  an 
imperishable  soul. 


Our  annual  Christmas  dinner  was  held  Wed- 
nesday evening,  Dec.  18.  The  tables  had  been 
very  effectively  decorated  by  the  seniors  with 
holly,  Christmas  trees  and  greens.  As  usual, 
slams  were  given  and  caused  a  great  deal  of 
amusement.  The  engaged  girls  and  the 
crushes  had  to  march.  Woodland  Park  also 
marched  and  sang.  During  dinner  Miss  Nee- 
kamp,  Helen  Webster,  Katherine  Rice  and 
Doris  Rogers  sang.  After  a  pleasant  evening, 
goodbys  were  said  for  the  holidays. 


The  spirit  of  Christmas  was  brought  to  us 
very  impressively  at  Vespers,  December  15th. 
The  girls  marched  into  the  gymnasium  accord- 
ing to  classes,  after  which  the  glee  club  sang  a 
number  of  Christmas  carols.  Solos  were  given 
by  Julia  Rankin,  Helen  Prince,  Helen  Balcom 
and  a  violin  number  by  Helen  Brooks. 

The  Rev.  Brewer  Eddy  then  gave  a  short 
address    on    the    true    Christmas    spirit.      He 


told  us  that  this  was  to  be  a  different  Christ- 
mas from  any  we  had  ever  before  experienced, 
because  our  hope  for  future  liberty  is  assured. 
But  he  reminded  us  that,  in  our  enthusiasm 
over  our  great  success,  we  should  not  forget 
the  part  of  our  allies  in  the  struggle.  Mr.  Eddy 
says  that  the  spirit  of  giving  in  this  country 
is  greater  than  ever  and  that  it  is  this  spirit 
which  has  made  victory  possible.  One  of  the 
gifts  of  Christmas  to  the  world  this  year  is 
the  liberation  of  Armenia  from  Turkey.  We 
are  trying  to  show  our  appreciation  of  this  gift 
by  sending  ships  loaded  with  implements  to  re- 
build stricken  Asia  Minor. 

The  newly  elected  officers  of  the  Christian 
Endeavor  Society  are:  President  Ethel  Ram- 
age  ;  Vice-President,  Marion  Eaton ;  Secretary 
and  Treasurer,  Cornelia  Evans. 


GIGNOL 


Mile.  Le  Royer  introduced  a  new  kind  of 
entertainment  to  us  when  some  of  her  pupils 
presented  the  French  play  "Gignol".  This 
show  corresponds  to  our  "Punch  and  Judy" 
and  is  a  story  of  a  careless  fellow  who  runs 
debts,  abuses  his  family,  and  is  a  general 
nuisance,  but  escapes  a  prison  sentence  by 
promising  to  get  the  Kaiser.  This  he  succeeds 
in  doing  after  many  difficulties. 

The  show  was  held  in  the  parlors  on  the 
afternoon  of  December  17th.  Music  was  en- 
joyed before  the  performance.  The  Wood- 
land Park  School  attended  in  a  body  and  at 
the  close  pleased  us  with  some  of  their  songs. 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES. 


The  music  department  closed  its  work  for 
the  autumn  term  with  a  delightful  recital,  the 
second  of  the  season,  on  Monday  evening,  Dec. 
16.  The  assembly  room  was  well  filled  by  an 
audience  of  parents  and  friends  of  the  pupils 
and  their  kindly  interest  expressed  in  generous 
applause  was  a  real  inspiration  to  the  artists  of 
the  evening. 


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The  guests  were  received  on  their  arrival  by 
the  ushers,  Rosamund  Rice,  Katherine  Braith- 
waite  and  Marjorie  Winslow  who  introduced 
them  to  the  reception  committee  Bessie  Savage, 
Erna  Schmidt  and  Elizabeth  Retan,  officers  of 
the  Cecilia  Club. 

The  day  being  the  anniversary  of  Beetho- 
ven's birth,  the  first  of  the  program  was  de- 
voted to  a  short  sketch  of  his  life  and  work 
and  the  rendering  of  two  of  his  earlier  compo- 
sitions- 

At  the  close  of  the  program  which  is  given 
in  full,  the  Woodland  Park  song  was  sung  with 
a  hearty  good  will  by  the  entire  school. 

PROGRAM 

A  few  bits  from  Beethoven's  life 
Sonatina  in   G  major 

Elizabeth  Retan 
Polonaise  from  Serenade  for  Violin  and  Cello  in 
F  major 

Miss  Chase,  Miss  Beede 

Songs: — The    Tea    Kettle  Riley-Gaynor 

Jack   Frost  Riley-Gaynor 

The  School 

Trumpeter's   Serenade  Spindler 

Farewell  Hiller 

Ruth  Ufford 
In    May  Behr 

Cora    Cornell 
French   Child's  Song  Behr 

Barbara  Hansen 
Pansy   Song  Cramm 

Marjorie  Winslow 

Songs: — Away  in  a  Manger  Luther 

The  Heavenly  Stranger  Gabriel 

The  School 

Voice  of  the  Heart  Van   Gael 

Helen  Palmateer. 
The  Echo  Ritter 

Ines    Cabrera 
The  Tulip  Lichner 

Marion  Kirby 
Butterflies  Lege 

Erna   Schmidt 
Duet — God   Save  the   King 

Gwendolyn  McDonald,  Miss  Chase 

On  Saturday  evening,  December  14,  the 
Woodland  Park  pupils  made  their  dramatic 
debut  in  the  gymnasium  of  Lasell  Seminary. 


The  occasion  was  a  short  Christmas  play  en- 
titled "The  Star  of  the  East".  In  the  centre 
of  the  stage  was  the  manger,  containing  The 
Child  and  Mary,  who  was  very  beautifully  im- 
personated   by    Elizabeth  Retan. 

The  younger  children  of  the  school  repre- 
sented the  angel  choir  and  sang  several  carols 
from  behind  the  scenes. 

The  proceeds  of  the  play  amounted  to  $22 
and  were  used  to  pay  the  school's  subscription 
to  the  United  War  Work  Fund. 

For  the  Destitute  Children  of  Devastated 
France  Woodland  Park  pupils  filled  twenty- 
one  little  red  dime  stockings  making  a  total  of 
$10.50. 

On  the  evening  of  Dec.  18,  the  entire  Wood- 
land Park  School  assembled  to>  give  Christmas 
greetings  to  a  few  friends  in  the  good  old  En- 
glish custom  of  carol  singing.  The  moon  add- 
ed a  sacred  beauty  to  the  event  as  they  quietly 
gathered  under  Dr.  Winslow's  window,  and 
Mrs.  Winslow  and  Richard  made  a  beautiful 
picture  in  the  broad  window  as  they  responded 
to  the  greetings.  Next,  the  group  went  up  to 
Bragdon  Hall  where  Miss  Potter  and  Miss 
Genn  responded  and  invited  the  singers  in,  to 
sing  for  Red  Cross  workers  in  the  sewing- 
room. 

The  singers  then  moved  on  to  Clark  Cottage 
where  Mrs.  Wagner  and  Miss  Ransom  came  to 
the  door  and  responded  heartily  to'  the  unex- 
pected greetings.  Finally  they  stopped  at  the 
door  of  Dr.  F.  N'.  Peloubet  where  the  dear  old 
gentleman  came  out  and  with  a  reverent  air 
stood  with  hat  raised  and  lips  moving  in  uni- 
son listening  to  the  carols  "Away  in  a  Man- 
ger", "We  Three  Kings  of  Orient  Are",  and 
"God  rest  you  Merry  Gentlemen!"  At  each 
door  the  children  left  a  bunch  of  Christmas 
greens,  pine  cones,  and  holly  tied  with  red  rib- 
bon. They  were  made  happy  next  day  by  a 
beautiful  basket  of  delicious  cookies  sent  by 
Mrs.  Wagner  as  a  token  of  love.  Apprecia- 
tive notes  came  from  others  and  the  junior  de- 
partment of  Lasell  has  a  beautiful  remem- 
brance of  their  first  vear's  Christmas  carols. 


A  Happy  New  Year  to  all  our  girls,  old  and 
new,  but  especially  to  Edna  Louise  Crane,  '17, 
who  began  the  New  Year  as  Mrs.  James  Henry 
Rough,  Jr.  The  wedding  occurred  on  the 
thirteenth  of  December  in  the  City  of  Chicago. 

The  marriage  of  Eleonora  Stroh  to  Mr.  Ar- 
thur Emerson  Cole  took  place  on  the  thirtieth 
of  October. 

On  the  twenty- seventh  of  November  Annett 
Pearl  Roulstone  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Stan- 
ley Nelson  Barnhart.  They  are  at  home  in 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harvey  Mansel  Whipple  an- 
nounce the  marriage  of  their  daughter,  Dale 
Marie,  '16,  to  Mr.  Randolph  Watson  Turnbull, 
on  the  twenty-sixth  of  December  at  Orleans, 
Vermont. 

From  Hartford,  Connecticut,  comes  the  an- 
nouncement of  the  engagement  of  Miss  Ruth 
Dunning,  former  teacher  of  Physical  Train- 
ing, to  Mr.  Arthur  M.  Haas. 

In  a  dear  note  from  Mildred  Keasor  Pit- 
man to  our  Preceptress  she  asks  if  we  have 
forgotten  her.  Our  answer  is:  "Your  dear 
face  and  ways  stand  out  distinctly  in  our 
memory."  One  of  the  interesting  bits  of  news 
in  her  letter  is  her  mention  of  the  possible 
enrollment  on  our  next  year's  roster  of  her 
sister  who  will  be  a  graduate  from  the  Laconia 
High  School  this  coming  June. 


The  following  is  from  the  Kennebec  Jour- 
nal: 

"Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Prince  of  Madison 
are  announcing  the  engagement  of  their  daugh- 
ter, Helen,  to  Mr.  Ingleton  Schenck,  Jr.,  also 
of  Madison.  Miss  Prince  attended  Cony  High 
for  two  years,  graduated  last  June  from  the 
Madison  High  School,  and  is  now  a  member 
of  the  Junior  class  at  Lasell  Seminary,  Au- 
burndale,  Mass.  Mr.  Schenck  is  the  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ingleton  Schenck,  Sr.,  and  is 
m  charge  of  one  of  the  departments  of  the 
Great  Northern  Paper  Company's  mill  at  Mad- 
ison. Mr.  Schenck  received  his  education  at 
Holderness  Preparatory  School  and  at  Dart- 
mouth  College." 

In  their  Christmas  greetings  to  Miss  Potter, 
Hannah,  '14,  and  Katharine  Bingaman,  '15,  tell 
of  the  safety  of  their  two  soldier  brothers  and 
are  looking  forward  eagerly  to  their  return  to 
the  States. 

Enclosed  with  her  Christmas  greetings  to 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  Nell  Jones  Yeomans, 
'05,  sent  two  charming  pictures  of  her  chil- 
dren, and  very  graciously  adds,  "Mv  two 
daughters,  future  Lasell  girls,  I  hope."  Nell 
also  sent  a  splendid  Christmas  letter  to  our 
preceptress.  Although  a  busy  mother  and 
housekeeper,  this  graduate  finds  time  for 
worth-while  reading  and  during  the  summer 


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has  spent  some  profitable  hours  in  her  garden. 
Nell  speaks  of  a  visit  occasionally  from  Callie 
Le  Seure,  '03,  and  wishes  she  could  be  a  more 
frequent  guest,  but  Callie  is  devoted  to  her 
mother,  from  whom  she  is  not  willing  to  be 
long  separated. 

Our  Principal's  sister,  Marion  Ordway  Cor- 
ley,  '11,  and  her  husband  have  moved  to  Cole- 
brook,  New  Hampshire,  where  Mr.  Corley  has 
been  called  to  a  fine  position  in  one  of  the 
banks. 

Annie  Crowe  Collum,  '09,  recently  called  at 
the  home  of  our  Principal  and  some  of  the 
teachers  were  privileged  to  meet  her.  We 
found  her  brave  in  the  face  of  her  double  sor- 
row in  the  loss  of  her  husband  and  mother 
She  was  accompanying  her  father,  brother  and 
wife,  to  their  winter  home  in  Florida.  She 
spoke  of  a  visit  she  had  last  summer  from 
Katherine  Wheeler,  '09,  her  former  Lasell 
roommate. 

Our  glad  holiday  season  was  suddenly 
turned  into  mourning  because  of  the  great 
sorrow  which  visited  the  home  of  our  Miss 
Louisa  Parkhurst.  After  but  three  days'  ill- 
ness her  little  niece,  Helen  Louise,  passed 
away.  Many  of  the  old  girls  will  remember 
this  unusually  winsome  and  lovable  child  and 
will  join  with  us  in  our  tender  sympathy  for 
the  bereaved   parents   and   family   circle. 

Florence  Sheip  was  favored  during  Christ- 
mas vacation  by  a  visit  from  her  mother.  We 
regret  that  Mrs.  Sheip  had  a  slight  attack  of 
influenza  during  her  sojourn  in  our  midst. 

Word  has  come  to  us  indirectly  that  our 
dear  Ruth  Ketcham  Sturtevant,  '13,  has  lost 
her  husband.  Another  brave  soldier  who  has 
given  his  life  for  our  sakes  and  the  cause  of 
democracy. 

Our  Principal  seldom  leaves  Lasell,  but  dur- 
ing the  Christmas  vacation  spent  a  few  days 
with  his  mother  and  sister  in  Orleans,  Ver- 
mont. 

vVe  congratulate  Woodland  Park  School  in 
securing  for  their  dietitian  Miss  Eugenia 
Wood,  a  graduate  of  the  Boston  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
School  of  Domestic  Science. 


jLasell  received  holiday  greetings  from  our 
former  gymnasium  teacher,  Miss  Nellie  M. 
Warner,  who  was  spending  her  Christmas  va- 
cation with  her  brother's  family.  We  were  glad 
to  hear  again  about  that  charming  little  nephew, 
who,  as  Miss  Warner  writes  "has  just 
been  to  church  to  sing  'Asleep  in  the  Manger' 
entirely  out  of  tune."  We  understand  what 
it  must  have  meant  to  be  with  this  happy 
little  child  during  the  holidays. 

Those  of  us  who  read  the  January  Scribner's 
have  been  delighted  with  the 'splendid  article 
entitled  "Building  Character  in  the  Army" 
trom  the  pen  of  Allen  D.  Albert,  brother-in- 
law  of  Nell  and  Barbara  Jones.  We  advise  all 
our  readers  to  enjoy  it ! 

Elsewhere  in  our  columns  girls  of  1908-10 
will  be  interested  to  read  the  charming  lines 
from  Marion  Briggs'  pen,  which  Miss  Wither- 
bee  has  kindly  allowed  us  to  use. 

From  Yarmouth,  Nova  Scotia,  comes  a  mes- 
sage to  our  Principal  from  Madeleine  Lovitt, 
'08.  The  family  are  feeling  very  happy,  for 
they  had  just  received  word  from  their  soldier 
boys.  One  brother  arrived  in  this  country 
shortly  before  Madeleine's  message  and  had 
many  wonderful  ventures  and  hair  breadth  es- 
capes to  relate.  This  was  the  brother  who  was 
gassed,  but  is  fast  recovering  from  the  attack. 
He  is  wearing  the  bonnet  and  kilt  of  the  Argyle 
and  Sutherland  Highlanders.  The  second 
brother  is  in  an  English  hospital  and  writes 
an  interesting  letter  describing  the  reception 
of  the  Canadians  at  Mons  and  Valenciennes. 
Madeleine  is  hoping  to  return  to  the  United 
States  early  in  the  year  and  may  be  located  in 
New  York.  We  shall  hope  to  see  her  at  the 
school  before  long. 

Maria  Orozco  is  getting  to  be  a  real  Bos- 
ton University  girl.  We  feel  quite  pleased  to 
note  an  article  from  her  pen  in  a  recent  num- 
ber of  the  Boston  University  Beacon. 

On  November  1st  a  daughter,  Virginia,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Manness  (Eliza- 
beth H.  Linn, '13 ). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roy  E.  McCorkindale  (Ruby 


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Newcomb,  '14),  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of 
.a  daughter,  Ruth,  on  November  3d. 

A  son,  Richard  Dodge  Whittemore,  came  on 
December  7th  to  bless  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  E.  Whittemore (  Mary  E.  Dodge). 

Judge  Robert  Raymond  and  his  daughter, 
Miss  Anna  Raymond,  our  former  instructor 
in  Latin,  made  a  call  during  the  holidays  at 
the  Seminary.  Miss  Raymond  is  now  Dean  of 
Women  at  Colby  College,  and  is  enjoying  her 
work  very  much.  They  were  especially  happy 
this  vacation  on  account  of  the  release  from  a 
German  prison  of  Judge  Raymond's  son,  Rob- 
ert Raymond,  Jr.,  an  officer  in  the  Expedition- 
ary Forces  in  France. 

This  is  a  good  one,  and  we  are  not  quite 
^ure  who  'it  is  on,  our  Preceptress  or  Elsie 
Flight,  '18.  At  Christmastide  Elsie  asked  her 
little  pupils  "to  make  out'"  a  list  of  Christmas 
gifts  which  would  be  just  right  for  each  other. 
One  small  boy  wrote,  "I  hope  Santa  will  give 
our  teacher  a  pair  of  high  heeled  shoes,  for  she 
always  wears  low  ones." 

The  President  of  our  Alumnae  Association, 
Josephine  Woodward  Rand,  TO,  and  our 
Alumnae  Association  Secretary,  Harriet  Scott, 
'94,  visited  the  Seminary  recently  to  talk  over 
plans  for  the  Lasell  Mid-winter  Reunion.  Then 
it  was  we  learned  that  Harriet  Scott  is  to 
start  soon  on  an  extensive  tour.  Her  travel 
itinerary  includes  the  Philippines,  Japan  and 
China.  A  hearty  God-speed  to  this  loyal  La- 
sell  alumna ! 

A  number  of  Lasell  folk  received  a  beauti- 
-  ful  Christmas  card  from  our  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Turner  Bailey.  It  repeated  the 
last  poem  written  by  Joyce  Kilmer  and  re- 
ceived by  his  wife  a  few  days  before  she 
learned  of  his  death. 

A  host  of  old  girls  are  still  remembering 
the  visits  to  Lasell  of  Denis  McCarthy.  The 
exquisite  verses  of  this  Irish-American  poet 
have  found  a  place  not  only  on  our  library 
tables,  but  "into  the  hearts  of  us".  His  New 
Year's  greeting  to  the  "friends  who  like  me 
at  Lasell"  is  sincerely  appreciated. 


"Aurora  C.  Rivera  le  desea  muchas  felici- 
dades  en  el  Ano<  Nuevo."  So  runs  the  New 
Year's  greeting  from  our  Aurora.  We  would 
be  delighted  to  reciprocate  in  the  same  grace- 
ful language. 

We  are  glad  to  welcome  among  our  new 
girls  this  term,  Helen  M.  Street  of  East  Ha- 
ven,  Connecticut,  a  friend  of  Elsie  Flight  and 
Ruth  Tolman.  Also,  Thelma  Swan  and  Eve- 
lyn Hersum-  have  changed  from  day  to  resi- 
dent pupils.  A  very  cordial  welcome  to  these 
girls. 

We  found  Mary  Starr  Maxson,  12,  this 
Christmastide  in  her  brother's,  Dr.  Utter's, 
home  in  Providence,  the  home  from  which  our 
Josephine  Siggins  Utter  was  taken  so  suddenly 
last  spring.  While  Mary's  husband,  Lieu- 
tenant Maxson,  is  in  service  Mary  has  been 
with  her  brother  in  the  Providence  home.  She 
seemed  a  bit  dearer  than  ever  as  she  proudly 
presented  to  us  her  little  son,  a  blessed  baby 
nearly  a  year  old.  Just  now  she  is  planning 
to  leave  her  small  boy  in  care  of  his  devoted 
grandmother  while  she  and  her  brother  are 
spending  a  few  weeks  in  the  sunny  south. 

Alice  Jenks,  '17,  writes,  "I  have  just  fin- 
ished reading  the  Christmas  copy  of  the  Leaves 
and  it  took  me  back  to  the  good  old  Lasell 
days  which  I  have  missed  lately.  It  seems 
strange  to  see  all  the  new  names.  I  think  I 
must  come  back  for  a  visit  and  meet  these 
girls."  Alice  confesses  her  mind  is  still  in 
the  business  world  and  we  happen  to  know 
from  friends  that  she  is  making  good  in  her 
new  work.  She  refers  to  Edna  Crane's  recent 
marriage  and  tells  us  that  that  makes  the  fifth 
from  the  Class  of  1917  who  have  changed 
from  a  happy  to  a  happier  life.  She  is  expecting 
soon  Dot  Redmond,  '17,  and  Eleanor  McCaus- 
land,  '17,  to  visit  her  and  exclaims,  "Won't 
we  talk  of  Lasell  days?"  We  hope  the  three 
girls  will  visit  the  school  home  together.  She 
speaks  of  her  lovely  summer  excursion  out 
west,  especially  the  days  spent  with  Marjorie 
Kunkel,  '18,  and  closes  with  Happy  New  Year 
wishes  for  all  at  Lasell. 

To  Maude  Hayden,  '16,  we  are  indebted  for 


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this  information.  She  writes,  "Today  I  re- 
ceived a  very  interesting  announcement  which 
I  think  you  might  like  to  put  in  the  Leaves. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  H.  Herfurth  (Madeline 
Sheldon,  '16)  are  the  proud  parents  of  a  little 
son,  Kenneth  Sheldon,  born  December  27th. 
Madeline's  husband  is  still  in  army  service  and 
they  have  been  living  in  San  Diego,  Califor- 
nia, but  are  talking  of  coming  east  and  may 
make  their  home  in  Boston.  We  are  already 
anticipating  a  Herfurth  Lasell  reunion  later 
on. 

We  were  touched  and  pleased  to  receive  a 
loving  line  from  Mrs.  Orion  Siggins,  mother 
of  our  Josephine  of  blessed  memory.  We  are 
so  glad  that  this  mother  holds  our  school  and 
us  still  in  loving  remembrance. 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  birth  of 
George  Emerson  Cole  in  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harley  M  Cole  (Grace  Emerson,  '08)  on 
the  5th  of  January. 


In  the  home-going  of  Mrs.  Lucy  Packard, 
Lasell  has  lost  one  of  its  most  loyal  and  be- 
loved friends.  Mrs.  Packard  was  the  moth- 
er of  our  Registrar,  Miss  Lillian  H.  Packard, 
'83,  Mrs.  Nellie  Packard  Draper,  '84,  and  Mrs. 
Mary  Packard  Cass,  '89.  She  and  her  late 
husband,  Dr.  Packard,  were  among  Lasell's 
staunchest  friends  in  the  early  days  of  the 
school.  During  these  later  years  our  "Mother 
Packard",  as  we  loved  to  call  her,  moved  to 
Au'burndale  and  was  a  close  and  delightful 
neighbor.  Her  unfailing  and  loyal  interest  in 
the  Seminary  and  her  own  bright  personality 
have  endeared  her  to  a  host  of  old  girls  who 
will  join  with  Lasell  in  extending  tenderest 
sympathy  to  the  bereaved  family. 

The  passing  away  of  Mrs.  Packard,  long 
the  central  figure  in  her  quiet  home,  leaves  an 
aching  sense  of  loss  even  in  us  who  saw  her 
only  occasionally,  and  how  those  to  whom  she 
was  so  infinitely  near  and  dear  miss  her  we  do 
not  need  to  be  told.  Her  sweet  Christian 
character,  her  blithesomeness,  her  alert  interest 


in  all  about  her  are  convincing  proofs  that  for 
her  life  was  a  joy,  not  a  burden.  The  rare 
power  and  habitual  custom  of  finding  her  hap- 
piness in  every  day's  conditions  and  occur- 
rences rooted  in  her  serene  and  sure  grasp  of 
those  eternal  virtues  that  are  the  bedrock  of 
peace  and  calm.  All'  who  knew  her  found  in 
her  a  delightful  and  comforting  assurance  that 
with  God's  presence  and  promises  to  lean  up- 
on, the  soul  is  possessed  of  a  treasure  of  joy 
and  security  that  nothing  can  take  away.  Sure- 
ly hers  was  the  ministry  of  .a  gentle  and 
courageous  spirit,  and  earth  has  been  the  love- 
lier for  her  life  among  us. 


AN  UNWITTING  CONTRIBUTOR 


She's  a  Lasell  girl  and  our  long-time  friend, 
and  in  her  occasional  and  always  delightful 
letters  comes  now  and  then  a  bit  of  amusing 
verse.  This  which  follows  we  are  printing 
first,  intending  to  write  her  for  permission 
afterzuards.  And  we  are  doing  this  because  we 
know  her  obliging  disposition  and  are  sure  in 
advance  that  she  will  graciously  allow  us  to 
please  our  readers  with  this  diverting  little 
presentment  of  the  case  of  a  certain  small  boy 
among  those  lads  whose  young  minds  she  was 
once  helping  to  train  in  a  school  not  far  away. 

CAUSE   OF    THE    CROW 
Oh,  once  there  was  a  boy  who  fairly  worshiped 

Mother  Earth. 
(I  am  told  that  of  such  youngsters  there  is 

never  any  dearth), 
At  any  rate  'twas  evident  to  all  upon  the  place 
He  believed  in  soap  economy  regarding  hands 

and  face. 
Now  in  the  deep  dark  cellar  lived  a  shining 

black- tame  crow, 
To  visit  whom  at  recess  this  lad  must  always 

go; 
And,  on  returning  to  his  desk,  his  face  and 

hands  and  shirt 
Demonstrated  very  clearly  how  he  loved  a  lit- 
tle dirt. 

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JOKES 


Boarding  School  Telephone  Calls 

"Back  Bay  509  please." 

(Five   minutes    wait.) 

"Blodgett's  Female  Seminary?"' 

''I  would  like  to  speak  with  Lizzie  Maynard, 
please." 

"Miss   Maynard?" 

"Yes." 

"One  moment,  please." 

(Ten   minutes  wait.) 

"Hello." 

''Hello,  is  this  Lizzie?" 

"What?"' 

"Is  this  Lizzie  Maynard?" 

"No,  this  is  Miss  Mary  Maynard,  the  Eng- 
lish teacher." 

"I  am  calling  Miss  Lizzie  Maynard.  Hello, 
Central,  give  me  Back  Bay  509  again.  You 
cut  me  off." 

"Blodgett's  Female  Seminary?" 

"You  gave  me  the  wrong  person.  I  wish 
to   speak  to   Miss  Lizzie  Maynard." 

"Who  is  calling?" 

"Mr.  Brown." 

"One  moment.  I'll,  connect  you  with  the 
teacher  in  charge." 

"Hello." 

"This  is  Mr.  Brown  speaking.  May  I  speak 
with  Miss  Lizzie  Maynard  ?" 

"Who  are  you?" 

"Her  uncle." 

"Where  do  you  live?" 

"Boston." 

"What  street,  please?" 

"22  Beacon  St." 

"Is  the  message  very   important?" 

"Yes,  exceedingly." 

"Well,  I  guess  it  will  be  all  right.  How  old 
are   you  ?" 

"Sixty-five." 

"Call  the  office  girl  again  and  say  you  have 
my  permission  to  speak  with  Lizzie. 

"Hello,  hello,  is  this  Blodgett's?" 

"Yes." 


"I  have  the  teacher's  permission  to   speak 

"Miss  Maynard  is  in  class.  You  will  please 
call  her?" 

"One  moment,  please." 

(Fifteen    minutes    wait.) 

"Miss  Maynard  is  in  class.  You  will  please 
call  again  at  1.40  !" 


'    Proud  of  It,  Too 

Neighbor :  "They  tell  me  your  son  is  in 
the  college  football  team." 

Proud  mother :  "It  is  quite  true." 

Neighbor :  "Do  you  know  what  position  he 
plays  ?" 

Proud  mother :  "I'm  not  sure,  but  I  think 
he's  one  of  the  drawbacks." — Ex. 


Also    in    Debt 

"The  beauty  of  automobiling  is  that  it  keeps 
you  out-of-doors." 

"Not  always.  It  frequently  lands  one  in 
jail  or  in  the  hospital." — Ex. 


Mr.  A. :  "My  daughter  is  taking  a  course  in 

domestic  science." 

Mr.  B. :  "How  is  she  getting  on?" 

Mr.  A. :  "All  right.  She  writes  she  has  just 

made  the  scrub-team." — Ex. 


Lady  customer :  "Oh,  and  have  you  a  mouse 
trap?  and  please  be  quick.  I  want  to  catch 
the  bus." — Ex. 


Son  of  house  just  released  from  service: 
"Six  a.  m.  and  not  a  soul  down  to  break- 
fast."— Ex. 


Miss  Porcine:  "Any  pink  knitting  yarn?" 

Clerk :  "No,  ma'am.  Slackers'  depart- 
ment is  in  the  basement." — Ex. 

"Perkins  entertains  a  very  good  opinion 
of  himself." 

"Well,  it's  reciprocal ;  his  good  opinion  of 
himself    entertains    Perkins." — Ex. 


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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 

"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

RE-CONSTRUCTION   NUMBER 

All  articles  or   "  bits  of  gossip  "  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor  - 

Lillian  M.   Packard 


GRADUATES   AND    OLD   GIRLS! 


Do  not  forget  the  Midwinter  Reunion  at 
Lasell  on  February  10th !  The  committee  are 
very  anxious  to  have  this  a  most  enthusiastic 
and  representee  gathering.  They  are  plan- 
ning a  short  inspiring  program  significant  of 
these  reconstruction  days.  Plenty  of  time  for 
visiting.  Come  and  enjoy  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wins- 
low's  hospitality  and  meet  the  "old  girls" ! 


The  devoted  and  enthusiastic  treasurer  of 
the  Lasell  Alumnae  Association  has  recently  is- 
sued the  following  circular  letter  to  the  grad- 
uates of  Lasell.  As  it  is  of  value  to  every  La- 
sell girl  we  re-print  it  here,  hoping  that  many 
of  you  will  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity 
to.  definitely  connect  yourself  with  Lasell  and 
its  interests  in  the  years  to  come.  Requests  for 
membership  may  be  sent  to  Mrs.   Cushing. 

She  writes  under  date  of  -  December  21 : 
"Since  my  bills  went  out  the  first  week  in  De- 
cember I  have  received  $105.00  in  only  six- 
teen days.  This  is  by  far  the  finest  record  we 
have  ever  had,  and,  best  of  all,  a  number  of 
them  have  paid  for  the  first  time. 

LASELL   ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION 

Every  graduate  of  Lasell  Seminary  is  rec- 
ognized as  a  member  of  the  Lasell  Alumnae 
Association. 


Any  one  who  has  ever  been  a  Student  of 
Lasell  Seminary  may  become  an  Associate 
Member,  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of  the 
Association,  with  the  exception  of  voting  in 
important  matters,  by  the  payment  of  the 
Annual  due. 

The  Annual  due  of  the  Association  is  one 
dollar  a  year,  payable  at  Commencement  in 
June,  or  on  receipt  of  the  bill. 

The  funds  of  the  Association  are  deposited 
in  bank,  and  are  used  to  assist  worthy  Lasell 
girls.  During  the  past  year  we  have  loaned 
to  Lasell  students,  $200.00 ;  and  have  given 
$100.00  to  Lasell  girls  now  in  France,  to  be 
used  in  their  Hospital  Work. 

In  accordance  with  a  vote  at  our  business 
meeting,  June  eleventh,  $1,000.00  of  our  funds 
has  been  invested  in  the  Fourth  Issue  Liberty 
Loan. 

The  days  of  selfishness  are  fast  passing, 
and  we  who  are  able  must  reach  out  to  help 
those  less  fortunate  than  ourselves. 

Will  not  every  member  of  our  Association 
pay  the  Annual  due  fpr  1918,  and  endeavor  to 
influence  some  one  who  has  been  a  Lasell 
student  to  become  an  Associate  Member  of 
our  Association. 

The  Life  membership  is  $25.00,  and  we  have 
received  that  amount  from  Harriett  Grace 
Scott,   1894,   Lela   Helen   Goodall,   1908,   and 


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Laura  Case  Viot,  1908.     We  hope  to  receive 
others  the  coming  year. 

Faithfully  yours  for  Lasell, 
Ella  Richardson   Cushing,   '73, 

Treasurer. 
November  1,  1918. 


OUR  FRENCH  CHILDREN 


For  two  years  we  have  had  our  little  group 
of  the  "Fatherless  Children  of  France"  and 
such  a  grip  have  they  gotten  on  our  hearts 
that  we  cannot  desert  them  at  this  time.  In 
answer  to  a  request  of  Mrs.  Johnston,  who 
first  interested  us  in  the  little  ones  as  to  wheth- 
er the  need  continued,  the  reply  printed  below 
came.  This  proves  that  we  are  making  no 
mistake  in  continuing  the  good  work.  Al- 
ready a  number  of  the  teachers  and  present 
and  former  students  have  signified  their  pur- 
pose to  still  care  for  their  adopted  children. 
Anyone  who  would  care  to  have  a  share  in 
the  support  of  those  not  already  provided  for 
can  do  so  by  writing  to  Miss  Packard,  the 
editor  of  the  Supplement,  asking  for  further 
information  or  sending  a  contribution. 


FATHERLESS    CHILDREN    OF 
FRANCE 


From  Mrs.  Johnston  of  the  Boston  Committee 
Concerning  the  Lasell  Group  of  the  Father- 
less Children  of  France — There  Were 
Twenty-five  of  Them  Last  Year — How 
Many  This? 

*  *  *  I  hesitate  to  say  anything  that 
would  seem  to  urge  another  year  of  the  splen- 
did help  your  students  and  faculty  have  given 
to  this  work.  On  the  other  hand  I  know  you 
prefer  to  know  just  what  the  need  is,  so  I  shall 
tell  you. 

The  Paris  delegates  were  present  at  our 
committee  meeting  a  week  ago  and  their  ac- 
count of  the  need  of  French  women  and  chil- 
dren was  a  revelation  even  to  us.  It  is  most 
serious  and  widespread  and  greater  than  at 
any    time    since    the    war  began.        You  see 


during  the  war  dependents  of  soldiers  re- 
ceived a  small  allotment.  That  has  now 
stopped,  and  there  are  no  pensions,  no  insur- 
ance. Undoubtedly  some  steps  will  be  taken 
to  remedy  this,  but  just  when  no  one  knows. 
Then  again  many  women  have  been  able  to 
support  their  children  by  working  in  munition 
factories  and  other  industries  contingent  on 
war.  Thousands  of  these  women  are  now 
thrown  out  of  work  and  must  continue  with- 
out employment  until  peace  industries  can  be 
organized.  As  the  factories  of  France  are  most- 
ly destroyed  or  mere  shells  without  machin- 
ery, it  will  take  time  to  re-establish  them.  Be- 
sides the  railroads,  local  and  national,  are 
pretty  much  worn  out  because  of  fifty  months 
hard  usage  and  must  be  rebuilt  or  repaired 
before  communication  and  transportion  condi- 
tions can  be  adjusted  to  the  needs  of  trade 
again.  The  tension  of  the  last  four  years  has 
been  so  great  that  when  the  reaction  came 
many  collapsed.  Of  the  two  million  who  re- 
mained in  the  invaded  country  I  am  told  that 
all  are  practically  diseased.  Half  a  million 
prisoners  are  returned  to  be  cared  for,  every 
one  diseased.  Then  there  are  three  million 
refugees  coming  back  to  nothing.  The  Father- 
less Children  of  France  Society,  because  of 
the  appalling  need,  is  now  perfecting  its  ma- 
chinery to  care  for  250,000  at  once,  and  500,- 
000  to  a  million  as  soon  as  possible.  So  far 
only  about  100,000  children  have  been 
"adopted"  by  Americans,  all  told. 


A  FRENCH  LETTER 


Chere  marraine 

Jai  requ  avec  plaisir  les  45  francs  que  vous 
m'avec  envoyez.  Je  vous  en  remercie  beaucoup. 
Je  vais  toujours  a  1'  ecole  a  la  messe  chate- 
chisme.  L'hiver  commence  a  etre  vigoureux, 
Nous  avons  de  tres  belles  gelees.  A  Byarritz 
et  Bayonne  hier  a  fait  8  jours  il  y  a  eu  un 
grand  mouvement  en  l'honeur  de  la  fin  de  la 
guerre.  Notre  bon  papa.  On  ne  le  verra  plus 
a  cause  de  ses  vilain  Bodies,  Maman  nous  dit 
qui'ils  geront  bien  punis  a  leur  tour.    II  nous 


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manquera  notre  bon  papa  qu'il  nous  gatait 
beaucoup.  Nous  allons  bien  vite  grandir 
pour  aider  notre  maman. 

Merci  encore  recevez  de  la  petite  Helene 
un  doux  baiser  et  de  maman  et  de  tous  un  re- 
spectuen  bonjour. 

Helene  Larrebat, 
Maison  Sarnave, 
anglet  cartier  Picfuge. 
Dear  Godmother : 

I  have  received  with  great  pleasure  the  45 
francs  which  you  sent  to  me.  1  thank  you 
very  much.  I  go  always  to  school  and  to 
mass  and  to  the  communion.  The  winter  has 
commenced  to  be  vigorous.  We  had  a  very 
beautiful  frost. 

At  Biarritz  and  Bayonne  yesterday  there 
was  a  grand  celebration  in  honor  of  the  end 
of  the  war.  Our  good  papa  is  not  here  any 
more  because  of 'the  wicked  Boche.  Mamma 
says  he  will  be  punished  in  time.  We  miss 
our  good  father  because  he  petted  us  very 
much.  We  will  grow  up  quickly  so  we  can 
help  our  mamma.  Again  receive  thanks  from 
your  little  Helene  and  a  sweet  kiss  from 
mamma  and  from  me. 

Respectfully, 
Bonjours, 
Helene  Larrebat. 


HERE  AND  THERE 


The  Lasell  Clubs  and  certain  Lasell  girls 
have  been  much  interested  in  Julia  Ander- 
son's hospital  and  the  help  has  been  received 
when  most  needed.  She  is  most  grateful  for 
all  this,  but  feels  that  you  should-  know  that  now 
that  the  war  is  over  and,  because  of  some  extra 
gifts  that  have  been  given,  the  hospital  is  well 
cared  for  for  the  limited  time  that  remains  for 
the  carrying  on  of  the  work.  The  estate 
was  loaned  for  the  duration  of  the  war,  but 
it  is  hoped  that  it  can  be  kept  up  until  the  re- 
covery of  the  patients  is  assured,  which  would 
probably  be  about  six  months.  She  writes, 
"We  cannot  bear  to  have  any  harm  come  to 
our  boys.    But  as  soon  as  it  can  be  closed  and 


all  our  boys  taken  care  of,  how  glad  we  shall 
be  to  sail  for  America.  I  so  want  to  see  my 
family  and  friends  and  show  them  my  Franco- 
American  boy.  I  hope  we  can  get  to  Boston, 
and,  of  course,  in  that  case  we  shall  go  to  La- 
sell at  once. 

"The  day  of  the  signing  of  the  armistice  a 
group  of  our  boys  sent  me  a  great  bouquet  of 
flowers  with  a  palm  leaf  in  the  center,  and 
such  a  beautiful  letter  which  they  all  signed. 
I  was  so  happy  and  so  touched.  The  delicacy 
of  these  men  is  wonderful.  All  except  one  of 
the  men  are  day  laborers-."  (I  am  wondering 
if  we  cannot  learn  a  few  lessons  in  democracy 
from  "our  little  Julia".) 


We  are  very  grateful  to  Grace  Huntington, 
'89,  for  sending  this  interesting  bit  of  informa- 
tion: "I  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  a  Lasell 
girl  last  summer  and  although  she  was  there 
some  years  later  we  found  a  'tie  that  binds'. 
I  accidentally  discovered  what  great  and  good 
work  she  was  doing  and  I  feel  sure  that  you 
will  be  proud  of  her.  Mary  B.  White,  at  La- 
sell, '97  to  '99,  now  lives  at  116  Riverside 
Drive,  New  York.  She  had  a  studio  at  55  East 
56th  Street,  for  some  time,  where  she  did  ex- 
pert photography,  principally  portrait  work. 
When  the  war  came  she  gave  up  the  studio 
work,  went  to  Cornell  University  and  took  a 
course  of  radiology.  She  was  in  the  New  York 
Hospital  in  X-Ray  department  most  of  last 
year,  but  was  transferred  to  the  clinic  for  Func- 
tional Re-education  for  soldiers  and  sailors." 

These  are  just  the  sort  of  discoveries  that 
we  like  to  know  about.  Grace  has  not  been 
well  this  past  year,  but  is  improving  and  hopes 
to  be  at  the  New  York  reunion,  which  is 
booked  for  the  twenty-fifth  of  January. 


From  Alma  Bunch :  I  don't  believe  I  told 
you  that  I  received  my  Governmental  appoint- 
ment last  April  at  the  Medical  Supply  Depot 
of  the  Army.  I  have  been  at  the  Purchasing 
Desk  ever  since  the  beginning  as  stenographer 
and  clerk,  but  for  the  last  two  months  have 
had   charge   of   the   Purchasing    Department. 


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The  nature  of  our  work  brought  an  extra 
heavy  burden  during  the  epidemic  and  we 
worked  long  and  hard,  but  it  was  little  enough 
to  do  if  it  meant  relief  to  the  boys  at  the  camps 
and  hospitals.  Things  are  much  quieter  now 
since  the  signing  of  the  armistice. 


A  charming  little  serial  in  six  sections  has 
recently  been  published  in  The  Classmate 
called  The  Charity  Child.  It  was  written  by 
Anne  Spottswood  Young,  '97,  and  a  number 
of  her  Lasell  friends  have  been  reading  it. 


103  Union  Street, 
Rockville,  Conn. 
January  6,  1919. 
My  dear  Mademoiselle  : — 

Enclosed  you  will  find  a  check  for  seventy- 
five  (75)  dollars,  which  I  am  sending  on  be- 
half of  the  Connecticut  Valley  Lasell  Club 
for  you  to  use  as  you  wish  in  your  war  fund. 
The  usual  luncheon  was  omitted  this  year 
on  account  of  the  war  and  instead,  the  mem- 
bers voted  to  send  the  money  ordinarily  used 
for  the  luncheon  to  you.  We  all  appreciate 
the  wonderful  work  which  you  have  done  and 
are  only  too  glad  to  be  able  to  help  in  it. 

We  all  rejoice  with  you  in  the  cessation  of 
war  and  hope  for  the  speedy  restoration  of 
your  glorious  country. 

Sincerely  yours, 
Sarah  M.  Hammond,  Sec.  &  Treas. 
January  8,  1919. 


To  the  Members  of  the  Connecticut  Valley 
Club. 
Dear  Girls :  This  morning  on  my  return  to 
school  after  a  fine  vacation — the  first  real  one 
for  four  long  years — I  found  in  my  postoffice 
box  a  letter  which  filled  me  with  great  joy.  It 
was  from  Sarah  M.  Hammond,  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Connecticut  Valley  Lasell 
Club,  sending  me  seventy-five  dollars  for  my 
fund  in  France.     I  was  deeply  touched,  for  I 


knew  what  it  meant.  On  reading  the  letter  I 
found  out  that  the  Connecticut  Girls  had 
foregone  the  pleasure  of  meeting  at  their  usual 
luncheon  so  dear  to  all  true  Lasell  girls,  since 
there  they  may  talk  over  the  good  times  spent 
at  Lasell  years  ago  by  some,  recently  by  oth- 
ers, in  order  to  give  a  bit  of  comfort  to  some 
miserable,  unhappy  blind  men  thousands  of 
miles  away. 

It  is  this  "fact  that  has  touched  me.  Truly 
the  Americans  have  the  memory  of  the  heart, 
and  this  gift  will  be  doubly  enjoyed  by  the 
blind  and  the  Orphans  who  will  receive  the 
money  because  it  comes  from  the  people  whose 
kindness  has  not  stopped  with  the  war,  but 
who  generously  see  the  present  needs  of  our 
people.  These  blind  are  soldiers  whose  fami- 
lies have  been  scattered  and  who  have  no 
homes. 

Mrs.  Nogue,  who  has  been  a  true  mother 
to  them  will  thank  you  from  her  heart,  for 
many  a  time  she  was  obliged  to  see  men  leave 
her  "salle  sans  un  sou",  and  that  is  hard. 

For  the  little  ones  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Girardot 
Les  Trouche,  Isere,  will  give  garments  and 
food. 

I  received  also  a  contribution  from  our  dear 
friend,  Maud  Simes — Mrs.  Harding — always 
On  the  lookout  for  doing  good. 

A  kind  letter  has  also  come  from  Hazel 
Brady,  telling  of  her  soldier  in  France.  (Both 
letters  were  in  French,   good  French,  too.) 

I  desire  to  take  the  opportunity  to  thank 
here  all  the  girls  who  have  written  words  of 
sympathy  not  only  for  me  directly,  but  also  f or 
my  beautiful  France,  beautiful  .even  now, 
though  scarred  by  the  horrors  of  war,  deliv- 
ered by  the  help  of  your  boys  who  have  of 
their  own  volition  given  their  lives  to  preserve 
the  remnant  of  the  old  civilization,  for  those 
who  are  resting  "over- there". 

Again  thanking  you,  I  am, 

Gratefully  yours, 

J.   LeRoyer. 

P.  S.  This  beautiful  English  is  done  by  the 
help  of  our  Miss  C.  M.  True. 


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EXCHANGES 


A  Happy  and  Successful  New  Year  to  one 
and  all !  We  are  hoping  that  the  New  Year 
will  bring  many  new  names  to  our  Exchange 
List,  which  we  shall  endeavor  to  enlarge  and 
improve.     We  trust  you  will  all  help  us. 

The  Gleam — St.  Paul,  Minn. ;  The  Artesan 
— Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  The  Villa  Marian — Im- 
maculata,  Penn. ;  The  Attic — Passaic,  N.  J. ; 
The  Herald — Holyoke,  Mass. ;  The  Columbian 
— Columbia,  S.  C. ;  The  Paly  Life — Baltimore, 
Md. ;  The  Quill— New  Brighton,  N.  Y. ;  The 
Optimist — Newark,  N.  J. ;  Lawrence  High 
School  Bulletin — Lawrence,  Mass. ;  The 
Amygdaloid — Houghton,  Mich. ;  The  Dal- 
housie  Gazette — Halifax,  N.  S. ;  The  Brimmer 
School  Magazine — Boston,  Mass. ;  The  Early 
Trainer — Lawrence,  Mass. ;  Philomath — 
Framingham,  Mass. ;  High  School  Review — 
Lowell,  Mass. ;  The  Goldenrod — Wayne,  Ne- 
braska; The  Tattler— Waterloo,  N.  Y. ;  The 
Astar — Newark,  N.  J. ;  The  Blue  Bird — New 
York  City  ;  The  Advance — Salem,  Mass. ;  The 
Acropolis — Newark,  N.  J.;  The  Dickinson 
Union — Williamsport,  Penn. ;  The  Sunnyside 
— Tarrytown,  N.  Y. ;  The  Lion — La  Grange, 
111. ;  The  Orange — East  Orange,  Mass. ;  The 
Exponent — Greenfield,  Mass. ;  The  Sagamore 
— Brookline,  Mass. ;  Alpha — New  Bedford, 
Mass ;  Academy  Monthly  —  Philadelphia, 
Penn. 


COMMENTS 


The  Early  Trainer — Lawrence,  Mass. :  We 
like  the  idea  of  having  an  occasional  continued 
story.  It  makes  one  look  forward  to  the  next 
issue. 

The  Dalhousie  Gazette — Halifax,  N.  S. ; 
This  is  surely  a  "breezy"  little  magazine. 
Everyone  of  its  articles  suggests  lots  of  "pep" 
and  school  spirit. 

Lawrence  High  School  Bulletin — Lawrence, 
Mass. :  The  December  number  contains  some 
very  interesting  stories.     The  "School  Gossip" 


is  worthy  of  comment.  Why  not  vary  your 
cover   design ! 

The  Optimist — Newark,  N.  J. ;  What  clever 
cuts  you  have !  They  certainly  make  your 
reading  matter  more  attractive. 

The  Herald — Holyoke,  Mass. :  The  prize 
winning  stories  are  a  credit  to  your  Literary 
Department.  Your  magazine,  on  the  whole, 
is  good,  but  where  are  your  cuts  and  ex- 
changes ? 

Paly  Life — Baltimore,  Md. :  An  all-round 
magazine  containing  matter  of  interest  to  each 
student.  The  cuts  are  excellent,  though  few 
in  number. 

The  Villa  Marian — Immaculata,  Penn. :  Al- 
ways a  welcome  exchange.  It  is  interesting 
from  cover  to  cover  and  every  article  is  well 
written. 

The  Brimmer  School  Magazine — Boston, 
Mass. :  You  have  a  very  attractive  Christmas 
cover.  The  Literary  Department  is  especially 
good,  but  why  are  your  other  departments  so 
small  ? 


CAUSE  OF  THE  CROW 

(Continued  f i om  page  17) 

"Teacher"   noted   his   condition  was  not  like 

the  driven  snow, — 
But  he  answered,  "Please,  Miss  Treadwell,  I 

was  playing  with  the  crow  !" 
The  reply  was  quick  and  ready,  and  delivered 

with  some  force, 
"Oh,  I    see !     The  crow   explains   it   all — his 

black  came  off,  of  course." 

Now  I   know  not  whether  crows   since  then 

are  dyed  with  Diamond  Dyes, 
But   certainly  that  lad   today  would  fill  you 

with  surprise. 
His  face  so  clean,  his  hair  so  sleek,  his  raiment 

pure  and  bright — 
He  fills  the  tidy  soul  with  joy,  he's  such  a 

spotless  sight. 

"There's  a  reason,"  says  a  famous  ad.,  and 
a  reason  lingers  here 


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Which   may  help   explain    the    mystery   and 

make  the  matter  clear : — 
It's  easy  to  be  neat  and  clean  when  lying  still 

in  bed, 

And  a   hospital's  a  tidy    place,    I've    always 

heard  and  read ; 
But,  his  operation  over,  in  another  week  or  so 
We  expect  our  Real  Estate  man  to  be  "play- 
ing with  the  crow". 

Marian  Briggs. 


HIS  LESSON 

{Continued  from  page  8) 
"annoyance"  was  to  run  away.  He  did  so,  and 
without  delaying  long,  either.  To  his  surprise, 
he  found  that  his  character  seemed  not  to  im- 
prove any  upon  getting  away  from  home  and 
its  surroundings ;  he  was  still  the  sport  of  evil 
impulses,  still  getting  into  trouble  and  more 
trouble;  but  too  proud  to  return,  he  made  up 
his  mind  that  the  army  was  the  place  for  him. 
His  parents,  for  he  was  still  in  communica- 
tion with  them,  raised  no  objection  when  they 
heard  of  his  purpose  to  enlist,  although  he  was 
still  too  young  to  take  such  action  without 
their  consent.  Both  mother  and  father  had 
privately  agreed  that  when  he  was  far  away, 
he  might  realize  that  he  owed  them  something, 
might  understand  for  himself  the  seriousness 
of  his  misdemeanors  as  no  one  else  could  make 
him  understand  them. 

In  this  case  mother  and  father  were  correct 
in  their  judgment.  George,  when  alone,  waist- 
deep  in  the  mud  and  water  of  the  trenches 
saw  with  different  eyes,  faced  every  event  of 
his  past  honestly,  without  flinching.  The 
thought  of  the  suffering  that  he  had  caused 
those  who  had  so  loved  him  made  him  deeply 
ashamed  and  sorry,  and,  making  at  last  an 
unshakable  resolve  to  lead  the  life  of  a  real 
man  thereafter,  he  wrote  them  a  letter  which 
brought  into  their  lives  a  new  and' permanent 
joy  which  never  again  did  their  son  do  any- 
thing to  turn  to  grief  and  disappointment. 

Ethlyn  Wilson. 


cup 

BAKER'S  COCOA 

is  a  lar£e  part  of  a 
^ood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition, very  little 
■waste,  and  its  use 
saves  other  roods. 

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Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,  Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New   Faneuil   Hall   Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for    those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place        15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and   92,    16   and    17   North   Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.   RICE.   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  Cumming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  e  able  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
artic'es  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glas  ware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT   P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

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For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
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in  New  England. 

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taupe  and  black,  finished  with 
pockets  and  belt  $19.50 


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Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 


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WING  TIP   BOOTS 

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Military  Heels.   Also  in  Black  or  Brown 

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Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

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Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
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Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

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Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

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Costumers 

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FEBRUARY,   1919 


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QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 

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you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
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is  the  same  —nothing. 

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Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

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No.  5 


Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE - 4 

LITERARY 

An  Interesting  People M.  Fogg  5 

A  Futile  Search V.  A.  Smith  5 

A  Wild  Ride    S.  Weymouth  7 

EDITORIAL 8 

LOCALS  9 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 10 

PERSONAL 11 

JOKES 16 

EXCHANGES 17 


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ON  THE  LIFE-MASK  OF  ABRAHAM 
LINCOLN 


"This  bronze  doth  keep  the  very  form  and  mold 
Of  our  great  martyr's   face.  Yes,   this   is  he: 
That  brow  all  wisdom,  all  benignity; 
That    human,    humorous    mouth;    those    cheeks 

that   hold 
Like  some  harsh  landscape  all  the  summer's  gold; 
That  spirit  fit  for  sorrow,  and  the  sea 
Of  storms  to  beat  on;  the  lone  agony 
Those    silent,    patient    lips-  too    well    foretold. 
Yes,  this  is  he  who  ruled  a  world  of  men 
As  might  some  prophet  of  the  elder  day, 
Brooding  above  the  tempest  and  the  fray 
With    deep-eyed   thought   and  more   than   mortal 

ken. 
A  power  was  his  beyond  the  touch  of  art 
Or  arm'd  strength — his  pure  and  mighty  heart." 

R.  W.   Gilder. 


AN  INTERESTING  PEOPLE 


In  talking  with  the  Arctic  explorer,  Don- 
ald B.  MacMillan,  I  have  had  an  opportunity 
to  learn  something  of  the  life  of  the  strange 
people  who  inhabit  the  far  northland.  To  me 
the  accounts  of  the  Eskimo  women  and  chil- 
dren were  especially  interesting. 

The  familiar  "Come,  it's  time  to  go  to  bed!'' 
is  never  heard  by  the  little  Eskimo  child.  He 
goes  to  bed  when  he  is  sleepy;  he  stays  up 
as  late  as  he  chooses.  The  children  are  not 
unlike  our  own  little  folk  in  their  desire  for 
playthings  and  pets.  The  playthings,  how- 
ever, are  given  them  with  the  thought  of  the 
future.     The  Eskimo  dog  means  to  the  Eski- 


mo what  the  locomotive  means  to  us.  It  is 
essential  that  every  man  learn  the  art  of  dog 
driving.  And  so  we  find  an  Eskimo  boy  sit- 
ting on  a  big  musk-ox  skin,  playing  with  a 
tiny  dog  whip.  He  is  given  this  whip  even 
before  he  is  able  to  walk.  As  he  grows 
stronger,  he  is  given  a  toy  harpoon.  He  be- 
gins the  art,  if  we  may  call  it  that,  of  self- 
preservation  when  he  is  still  in  babyland.  As 
a  result  of  these  exercises  the  child  is  physi- 
cally very  well  developed. 

As  to  their  intelligence,  Mr.  MacMillan 
seems  to  think  they  compare  very  favorably 
with  our  children.  Of  course  they  have  not 
gone  very  far,  but  their  ability  in  learning 
to  read  and  write  English  is  marvelous.  The 
Eskimo  child  seems  to  have  a  natural  skill  in 
drawing.  The  animals  depicted  are  true  to 
life.  I  remember  a  picture  of  a  drawing  by 
one  Eskimo  child  which  tells  a  story.  It  con- 
sists of  a  series  of  pictures  in  which  one  can 
follow  the  story  of  a  bear  attacking  a  little 
family.  The  last  picture  shows  the  wife 
mourning  over  the  grave  of  her  husband  who 
has  been  killed. 

The  child's  great  pet  is  the  Eskimo  puppy. 
He  loves  to  tumble  and  play  with  these  balls 
of  fur.  It  is  not  long  before  he  is  harness- 
ing the  dogs  to  a  tiny  sled  and  taking  little 
rides.  Again  we  see  the  education  for  the 
future  creeping  in.  The  little  Eskimo  child 
has  something  which  compares  even  with  the 
candy  dolls  and  animal  crackers  which  our 
kiddies  enjoy.  They  are  very  happy  in  play- 
ing with  the  birds  which  are  caught  on  the 


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cliffs.     After   playing   thus    for   awhile,   they 
eat  their  playthings. 

An  Eskimo  girl  is  considered  old  enough  to 
marry  when  she  is  able  to  chew  the  hides 
from  which  the  boots  are  made.  When  she 
can  do  this,  she  is  able  to  make  her  husband's 
clothes,  as  the  boot  is  made  of  the  toughest 
skins.  These  skins  are  cured  in  a  crude  way ; 
then  it  is  necessary  for  the  women  to  suck 
and  chew  them  in  order  to  make  them  pliable 
enough  to  sew.  As  a  result,  there  is  hardly 
a  woman  in  the  tribe  whose  teeth  are  not  worn 
nearly  down  to  the  gums.  The  men's  cos- 
tume consists  of  a  shirt  made  of  birds'  skins 
which  is  worn  with  the  feathers  next  to  the 
body.  Over  this  is  worn  a  one-piece  coat, 
made  of  deer  or  bear  skins.  This  coat  al- 
ways has  a  hood  attached  to  it.  The  long- 
legged  boots,  too,  are  usually  of  bear-skin. 
The  seal-skiii  boot  is  also  common  but  is  used 
for  summer  wear.  Inside  the  boot  there  is 
a  stocking,  made  of  Arctic  hare,  the  fur  worn 
next  to  the  foot.  The  woman's  costume  is 
much  prettier  than  the  men's.  The  outside 
coat  is  usually  made  of  blue-fox  skin.  It  has 
a  broad  band  of  white  rabbit  skin  around  the 
face  of  the  hood  which  is  very  picturesque. 
She  wears  long  boots  which  come  above  the 
knee. 

The  women  are  very  skillful  _  in  catching 
birds.  The  little  auks  are  found  on  the  cliffs 
by  the  millions  during  the  summer  months. 
The  women  then  sit  among  the  rocks  with 
a  net  attached  to  a  long  pole  and  catch  these 
birds.  They  are  so  numerous  that  as  many 
as  a  dozen  birds  are  caught  at  one  sweep  of 
the  net.  These  birds  are  placed  in  cairns  and 
eaten  during  the  winter. 

It  is  interesting  to  study  these  people,  who, 
up  to  a  comparatively  few  years  ago,  thought 
they  were  the  only  people  in  the  world.  They 
have  their  religion,  their  language,  their  music. 
Mr.  MacMillan  could  not  say  enough  about 
the  faithfulness  of  this  race  which  has  done 
so  much  in  aiding  the  explorers  of  the  great 
white  north. 

May  Fogg,  '20. 


A  FUTILE  SEARCH 


As  a  child  I  have  recollections  of  having 
a  secret  room  pointed  out  to  me  in  our  large 
attic  as  the  place  where  my  uncle  had  been 
hidden  from  the  federal  soldiers.  The  at- 
tic was  not  finished ;  rough  boards  made  the 
walls,  so  that  by  one  unacquainted  with  the 
secret  the  opening  was  not  discernible  even 
upon  close  inspection.  Since  a  small  knot- 
hole was  used  in  lifting  the  door  back  and 
forth  on  its  hinges,  it  did  not  necessitate  a 
knob  of  any  kind. 

The  story,  as  I  remember  it,  is  that  my 
great  Uncle  Tim  and  two  companions  were 
concealed  there  when  the  union  soldiers  came 
in  search  of  some  confederates,  who  were 
known  to  be  in  hiding  somewhere  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  our  home. 

On  reaching  the  place,  the  soldiers  de- 
manded to  be  shown  through  the  house — 
shown  from  attic  to  cellar.  My  aunt  having 
graciously  asked  them  in,  they  entered, 
searched  the  first  floor — every  nook  and  cor- 
ner— then  looked  through  the  kitchens.  From 
the  basement  back  to  the  first  floor  the  sol- 
diers marched ;  next,  up  the  stairs  to  the  sec- 
ond floor.  Through  all  the  bed-rooms  they 
went,  rummaging  in  all  the  closets  and  ward- 
robes ;  but  still  no  confederate  soldiers  were 
to  be  found.  From  the  second  floor  the 
unionists  mounted  to  the  attic.  Here  were 
trunks,  boxes,  and  parts  of  old  sets  of  furni- 
ture, piled  around  against  the  walls.  The  for- 
mer were  pulled  away  and  their  contents 
strewn  upon  the  dusty  floor.  All  this  was 
done  in  anger  and  disgust,  as  they  had  not 
yet  found  the  men  for  whom  they  were  search- 
ing. 

For  several  days  the  soldiers  remained  in 
the  house,  demanding  hospitality  of  my  aunt, 
and  thinking  the  men  would  appear  for  food 
at  any  moment.  There  had  been  time,  how- 
ever, to  store  food  away  in  the  little  room, 
before  the  coming  of  the  federals, — enough  to 
last  quite  a  while.  After  the  first  inspection 
there  was,  therefore,  really  no  danger  of  their 


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being  discovered  except  when  they  stirred. 
On  the  attic  floor  were  nuts,  which  had  been 
placed  there  for  drying;  so  the  noise  heard 
by  the  soldiers  was  easily  explained  to  them 
by  my  aunt's  saying  that  perhaps  it  was  the 
rats  nibbling  at  and  rolling  the  nuts  over  the 
floor. 

In  a  few  days  the  searchers  left  the  house 
and  the  surrounding  country,  and  only  then 
did  the  three  men  descend  from  their  cramped 
quarters.  In  the  course  of  time,  they  de- 
parted in  safety,  rejoining  their  regiment  with- 
out mishap. 

Although  the  attic  was  partly  destroyed  by 
fire,  the  secret  room  remains  just  as  it  was 
during  the  war,  and  one  will  surely  find  the 
little  door  if  one  knows  just  where  to  look 
for  it. 

V.   A.   Smith. 


A  WILD  RIDE 


One  day  during  my  vacation  a  friend,  call- 
ing me  up  on  the  telephone,  asked  me  to  go 
horseback  riding  with  her  that  afternoon. 
Now  I  knew  very  little  about  horseback  rid- 
ing, as  I  had  never  been  on  a  horse  until  a 
very  short  time  before,  when  I  had  taken  two 
lessons  at  school.  To  tell  the  truth, I  was  rath- 
er timid  about  riding  a  frisky  horse,  and  such 
was  my  father's  saddle  horse ;  so  I  told  my 
friend  I'd  call  her  up  later  and  let  her  know 
my  decision.  During  lunch  my  father  asked 
me  if  I  had  any  special  plans  for  the  afternoon 
and  I  told  him  that  I  might  go  riding,  if  he 
thought  it  would  be  all  right  with  so  little 
knowledge  of  riding  as  I  possessed.  He,  being 
a  military  man  and  entirely  at  home  in  the  sad- 
dle, thought  riding  very  easy  and  said,  "Cer- 
tainly, go  by  all  means.  Use  the  curb  if  neces- 
sary, and  you  will  be  perfectly  safe."  My 
mother  did  not  immediately  agree  to  this,  but 
finally  gave  a  reluctant  consent.  Therefore 
after  lunch  I  telephoned  to  Hazel  that  I  had 
decided  to  go.  Then  I  ran  up  to  my  room  and 
put  on  my  riding  habit. 

In  the  meantime  my  father  was  saddling:  the 


horse,  Colonel,  a  recent  purchase  from  a  cer- 
tain Colonel  White  at  Camp  Devens.  He  was 
certainly  a  beauty  with  his  chestnut  colored 
coat,  glossy  and  shining,  his  white  star  in  the 
middle  of  his  forehead  and  his  three  white 
feet.  Full  of  spirit  and  life  he  was,  and  car- 
ried his  head  high  and  his  neck  arched.  Too 
full  of  life,  altogether,  I  thought  him,  as  he 
began  to  prance  around  and  toss  his  head  in 
the  air,  flinging  back  his  thick  foretop.  My 
heart,  I  must  admit,  began  to  beat  faster  as  I 
watched  these  proceedings,  but  wishing  not  to 
let  my  father,  or  Hazel,  who  had  already  ar- 
rived, know  that  I  was  rather  timid,  I  said 
nothing.  After  two  attempts,  I  managed  to 
mount  Colonel,  and  off  we  started.  Although 
the  air  was  cold  and  snappy,  I  myself  was  far 
from  cold  as  you  can  guess.  I  managed  to 
keep  my  horse  in  check,  and  when  Hazel 
drew  closer,  we  turned  down  a  bridle  path  and 
rode  abreast  for  awhile. 

All  sorts  of  thoughts  about  that  horse  were 
racing  through  my  head.  What  should  I  do  if 
anything  should  startle  him !  With  a  strong 
effort,  I  put  aside  my  fears,  and  by  talking 
to  my  companion  tried  to  keep  them  in  the 
background.  Soon  we  left  the  bridle  path  and 
after  a  short  ride  on  the  highway,  entered  a 
small  town  where  were  gathered  a  crowd  of 
people  drawn  together,  as  we  shortly  discov- 
ered, by  the  fact  that  a  monument  was  being 
unveiled  there.  As  we  drew  near,  the  flag  on 
the  monument  was  lowered  and  the  band  com- 
menced playing  ''The  Star  Spangled  Banner." 
Colonel  stopped  at  once  and  stood  perfectly 
still.  I  spoke  to  him,  but  he  did  not  move  un- 
til the  music  had  ceased.  Later  I  learned  that 
he  had  been  trained  at  Camp  Devens  to  stop 
immediately  when  our  national  anthem  was 
played. 

Now  we  turned  homeward,  but  Colonel  was 
evidently  all  too  anxious  to  reach  his  waiting 
stable  ;  for  tossing  back  his  proud  head  he  com- 
menced to  run.  Alarmed,  I  tried  to  check  him, 
but  to  no  avail.  On  and  on  he  raced,  leaving 
my  friend  far  behind.       Suddenly  I  remem- 

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Mfonjrt 


The  problem  of  thrift  among  women  is  be- 
coming a  very  vital  one.  Newspapers  and 
magazines  fill  many  a  column  advocating  more 
businesslike  ways  for  women,  more  careful 
buying  and  keeping  of  accounts.  But  because 
we  are  at  school  and  not  placed  on  our  own 
responsibility,  we  pay  little  attention  to  these 
topics.  The  question  is,  can  we  afford  to  neg- 
lect them?  Who  knows  how  soon  we  may 
be  placed  on  our  own  resources,  when  we  may 
be  forced  to  be  independent?  No  matter  in 
what  circumstances  we  may  be  in  later  life,  we 
should  learn  to  spend  our  money  systematic- 
all)'.  Now  we  all  have  allowances,  some 
large,  and  some  not  so  large.  But  how  many 
of  us  can  account  for  half  of  them  ?  No,  you 
probably  didn't  begin  the  year  by"  keeping  ac- 
counts, but  it  is  certainly  not  too  late  to  start 
now.  You  will  be  surprised  to  find  at  first 
how  your  money  just  flies ;  but,  with  care,  later 
you  will  be  sure  to  have  money  to'  spend  for 
things  that  really  count  and  not  merely  for  in- 
cidentals. 


THE  NEW  LIFE 


"Perhaps  they  laughed  at  Dante  in  his  Youth, 

Told  him  that  truth 

Had  unappealably  been  said 

In  the  great  masterpieces  of  the  dead : — 

Perhaps  he  listened  and  but  bowed  his  head 

In  acquiescent  honour,  while  his  heart 

Held  natal  tidings, — that  a  new  life  is  the  part 


Of  every  man  that's  born, 

A  new  life  never  lived  before, 

And  a  new  expectant  art ; 

It  is  the  variations  of  the  morn 

That  are  forever,  more  and  more 

The  single  dawning  of  the  single  truth. 

So  answers  Dante  to  the  heart  of  youth !" 

Witter  Bynner. 


Feb.  10  is  the  day  set  for  completing  the  two 
hundred  garments  for  the  Belgian  sufferers. 
Although  there  is  nothing  fascinating  about 
this  plain  sewing,  the  work  is  imperative.  Let 
as  not  fail  in  our  share  of  it ! 


If  one  were  to  count  from  the  register  the 
names  of  girls  who  regularly  take  books  from 
the  Library,  one  would  find  the  number  sur- 
prisingly small.  We  all  love  to  tell  about  how 
little  time  we  get  to  read ;  and  yet  we  all  know 
that  if  we  honestly  planned  our  time  better, 
we  could  squeeze  out  considerable  for  reading. 
We  must  admit,  also,  that  when  we  do  secure 
this  precious  time,  most  of  us  devote  it  to  some 
frivolous  magazine,  the  contents  of  which  are 
soon  forgotten  and  well  deserve  to  be.  Our 
plea  is  for  every  girl  to  make  up  her  mind 
not  to  let  a  week  go  by  without  reading  a  few 
chapters  at  least  from  some  standard  literary 
work  or  from  some  of  the  recent  books  sug- 
gested by  our  Principal.  We  shall  surely  feel 
repaid — not  at  once,  perhaps,  but  assuredly 
later  on — by  a  taste  elevated  and  by  a  mind 
enriched. 


On  Sunday  evening,  Jan.  12,  owing  to  a 
sudden  attack  of  influenza,  Dr.  Francis  E. 
Clark,  founder  of  Christian  Endeavor,  was 
unable  to  speak  to  us ;  but  Dr.  Butters  very 
kindly  consented  to  talk  in  his  place.  Dr.  But- 
ters spoke  of  the  duty  of  the  educated  girl  to 
her  school.  A  girl  gets  out  of  a  school  just 
what  she  puts  into  it ;  to  get  the  most  out  of 
it,  one  must  learn  these  three  important  things, 
to  be  appreciative,  to  be  content,  and  to  be 
ambitious  to  make  one's  school  the  very  best. 
In  doing  this  one  makes  not  only  the  best  of 
herself,  but  brings  out  the  best  in  others.  Let's 
all  do  our  best ! 

A  most  helpful  Christian  Endeavor  meet- 
ing was  held  January  14th  led  by  Esther  Mc- 
Master.  "Stricken  Armenia,"  was  the  topic 
of  the  evening.  Our  leader  told  us  of  the 
numerous  calls  for  help  which  have  come 
from  this  devastated  country.  Bible  refer- 
ences on  giving  were  read  by  some  of  the 
girls,  after  which  Helen  Balcom  sang  a  solo. 
The  meeting  was  closed  with  sentence 
prayers. 

The  Rev.  Grant  Person  of  Newton  spoke 
to  us  at  Vesper  Service,  Sunday  evening,  Jan. 
19.  His  text  was,  "To  him  that  hath  shall 
be  given,  and '  from  him  that  hath  not  shall 


be  taken  away.''  This  law  applies  to  every- 
thing in  life,  physical,  mental,  and  spiritual. 
We  must  all  make  the  most  of  our  powers 
and  opportunities  in  order  that  they  may  in- 
crease  rather   than   diminish. 

Tuesday  evening,  Jan.  21,  at  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  through  the  kindness  of  the 
Auburndale  Brotherhood,  Lasell  had  an  op- 
portunity to  hear  Major  Carroll  Swan,  who 
was  with  the  101st  Engineers,  26th  Division, 
tell  his  experiences  in  France.  He  spoke  of 
the  wonderful  feeling  between  the  American 
soldiers  and  the  French  soldiers ;  how  they 
work  together  and  fight  together.  The 
French  people  treat  the  Americans  with  un- 
usual consideration,  and,  in  return,  the  sol- 
diers do  everything  they  possibly  can  for  the 
people.  All  the  soldiers  have  a  feeling  of  joy 
when  they  are  ordered  to  the  front  and  are 
wonderfully  courageous  and  self-sacrificing. 
Major  Swan  made  us  realize  that  the  least 
we  can  do  for  these  splendid  men  when  they 
return  is  to  help  them  secure  their  former 
positions  in  life. 

We  were  very  agreeably  surprised  in  Chapel, 
Tuesday,  Jan.  21,  when  the  Rev.  Dr.  Crooks, 
father  of  one  of  our  girls,  spoke  to  us.  His 
subject   was   Roosevelt,   the   moral   hero,   the 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


man  who  took  a  chance  on  the  side  of  right — 
and  succeeded. 

On  Jan.  28  Mercie  Xichols  was  the  leader 
of  Christian  Endeavor.  She  read  some  very 
helpful  poems  on  kindliness.  The  meeting 
was  greatly  enjoyed  by  all. 

The  French  Department  under  the  direction 
of  Mile.  LeRoyer  has  been  working  hard  on 
the  French  play.  Miss  Mullikin,  too,  has  been 
putting  much  time  and  skill  into  making  an 
appropriate  stage  setting.  The  frontispiece 
shows  the  gifted  cast  of  characters. 


WASHINGTON 


"The  winged  years,  that  winnow  praise  and 

blame, 
Blow  many  names  out ;  they  but  fan  and  flame 
The  self-renewing  splendors  of  thy  fame." 


I       WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 

We  all  knezv  before  the  holidays  just  how 
long  it  would  be  before  Woodland  Park  could 
be  in  readiness  for  us  and  we  gave  our  sev- 
eral opinions  freely ! 

But  the  Man  in  the  office  at  Bragdon  Hall 
said  very  little.  Instead  he  gathered  many 
workers  together  and  when  on  January  6  we 
asked  Mr.  Melody  to  drive  us  to  "Carpenter 
Hall"  where  we  had  left  our  little  school,  we 
were  brought  right  on  to  Woodland  Park 
proper.  There  busy  people  had  been  putting 
our  rooms  in  readiness.  By  night  our  efficient 
little  dietitian  said  we  might  breakfast  at 
home  on  the  following  morning ;  so  our  house- 
hold  felt  established. 

The  roominess  of  the  sunny  house — the 
many  baths  and  sleeping  porches,  the  spacious 
lawns  and  woods  about  us — all  add  to  the  joy 
we  feel  in  our  new  home. 

The  former  reading  room  has  been  fitted 
up  as  our  cosy  dining  room.  The  tables  ac- 
commodate six  each  and  make  it  possible  for 
the  teachers  to  guide  the  smaller  children 
gently  into  the  ways  of  correct  table  etiquette. 


Little  folks  forget  quickly,  but  as  quickly  re- 
spond to  kindly  suggestion. 

Out  of  the  sun-parlor  has  evolved  a  study 
hall  in  the  upper  part  of  which  classes  are  held. 
In  the  south  wing  are  practise  rooms,  play 
rooms  and  other  class  rooms — all  light  and 
well  ventilated.  The  large  dining-room  we 
use  for  the  morning  exercises  and  for  the 
dancing  class  which  meets  on  Friday  after- 
noons. This  class,  as  well  as  our  music  de- 
partment, attracts  a  number  of  children  who 
are  not  otherwise  our  pupils. 

Our  day  begins  directly  after  breakfast  with 
a  setting-up  drill  conducted  out-of-doors  by 
our  resident  nurse.  In  fact,  during  our  whole 
day  everything  possible  is  conducted  in  the 
fresh  air  and  sunshine.  We  are  looking  for 
great  results  in  the  physical  and  moral  health 
of  our  young  people. 

Our  ideal  is, — Only  the  best !   , 


MORE  THAN  ONE 


The  Bible  lesson  had  been  a  story  in  the 
life  of  Abraham.  The  following  week  the 
teacher  asked,  "Whom  did  we  talk  about  last 
week?"  Quickly  Donald  answered,  "Lincoln!" 


Cupid  seems  to  be  taking  his  vacation  a 
little  easy  just  now  as  we  have  but  two  wed- 
ding announcements  for  this  issue  but  these 
will  certainly  prove  to  be  of  a  special  impor- 
tance in  the  eyes  of  the  girls  of  '04  and  '16. 

On  the  fifteenth  of  January  Katharine 
Jenckes,  '04,  became  the  bride  of  Lieutenant 
Albert  Knox  of  the  Dental  Corps  of  the  United 
States  Navy. 

The  marriage  of  Vera  Willis,  '16,  to  Mr. 
Hugh  McMillan  Warfield,  which  occurred  on 
the  first  of  February,  is  announced. 

We  gather  from  our  last  letter  from  Alice 
Jenks,  '17,  that  she  has  decided  to  settle  per- 
manently in  the  business  world.  Alice,  you 
were  a  gay  deceiver  and  yet,  after  all,  it  is 
true,  only  she  is  going  into  partnership.  The 
senior  member  of  the  firm  will  be  Mr.  Leon 
Edgar  Nickerson.  The  wedding  day  has  not 
been  fixed. 

Lydia  Greeley  has  just  announced  her  en- 
gagement to  Mr.  Nelson  Alcorn  Talmadge. 

We  have  not  had  word  officially,  but  one  of 
our  girls,  a  citizen  of  the  same  town,  an- 
nounced the  recent  engagement  of  Helen 
Soule,  '14,  to  Mr.  Norman  Kilby. 

Heartiest  congratulations  to  these  Lasell 
girls  and  the  favored  young  men. 

Jessie  Joy  MacMillan,  '82,  has  just  returned 
from  a  sojourn  with  her  niece  in  the  sunny 


South.  En  route  home  she  called  on  Ida  Cogs- 
well ,B.  Allen,  whose  mother  was  also  a  Lasell 
girl.  She  tells  us  that  Mrs.  Allen  has  lectured 
to  one-half  million  people  the  last  year  on 
Household  Economics.  She  talks  especially 
to  educational  centers,  and  has  just  published 
a  Cook  Book.  We  are  proud  of  this  fine  rec- 
ord and  hope  some  day  Lasell  will  have  the 
privilege  of  listening  to  this  now  famous 
alumna. 

Quite  a  number  of  the  Lasell  family,  espe- 
cially in  the  faculty,  were  remembered  with  in- 
teresting foreign  postal  cards  containing  New 
Year's  Greetings  from  Mr.  Jack  Connolly,  who 
has  been  serving  overseas  for  the  past  year. 

Ruth  Straight,  '17,  is  certainly  making  a 
fine  record.  In  a  letter  to  our  Registrar  she 
writes,  "It  is  not  studying  that  keeps  me  so 
busy  this  year — it  is  urging  others  to  study. 
My  profession  takes  me  way  out  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  State  (Nebraska)  where  it  is 
really  'wild  and  wooly,'  flat  and  sandy.  Life 
out  there  is  as  new  to  me  now  as  Lasell  was 
almost  four  years  ago  and  I  enjoy  it  immense- 
ly. I  am  supposed  to  be  principal,  besides 
teaching  French,  Latin,  Algebra  and  Geometry, 
so  perhaps  you  can  guess  how  I  spend  most 
of  my  hours.  On  account  of  the  influenza  I 
have  been  home  for  nearly  two  months  and 
have   been    fortunate    enough   to    have    been 


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chosen  to  take  the  place  of  the  Domestic 
Arts  teacher  of  our  new  Junior  Vocational 
High  School  while  I  am  here.  Now  is  the 
time  I  appreciate  the  efforts  of  Miss  Tuttle  and 
Miss  Shank  in  my  behalf.  You  inquired  about 
my  little  French  protege.  Yes,  indeed,  I  want 
to  continue  to  do  what  little  I  can  for  the  un- 
fortunate children  of  brave  France." 

Mary  Taylor,  '17,  writes  to  Dr.  Winslow 
that  she  is  still  in  Colorado  and  hardly  knows 
when  she  will  return  to  Chicago.  She  is  at 
home  with  her  aunt  and  grandmother  and  very 
contented  in  the  land  of  her  adoption.  After 
all,  Mary  was  born  in  Denver,  so  in  a  sense  it 
is  a  case  of  "going  home."  She  is  still  do- 
ing office  work  for  the  Hiltz  Sign  Company 
and  enjoys  an  occasional  glimpse  of  Nell 
Woodward,  '15,  and  hopes  before  long  to  visit 
Lasell. 

I  am  sure  that  many  of  the  real  old  girls 
will  remember  Miss  Childs  and  her  thread  and 
needle  shop  in  our  village.  She  retired  from 
business  years  ago,  but  has  always  kept  her 
interest  in  Lasell  girls  and  each  holiday  sea- 
son there  has  been  some  exchange  of  friendly 
greetings.  Recently  she  passed  away  and 
one  of  her  last  requests  was  that  Lasell  girls 
should  sing  at  the  funeral  service,  which  they 
did. 

Miss  Witherbee  keeps  in  constant  touch 
with  Sarah  Caldwell,  '06.  In  her  last  'letter 
she  spoke  of  the  passing  away  of  her  dear 
grandmother  in  her  eighty-second  year. 
Sarah  writes  in  her  dear  way,  "It  was  so  hard 
to  give  her  up  as  I  have  been  her  constant  com- 
panion ever  since  I  left  Lasell."  We  cannot 
refrain  from  repeating  the  beautiful  tribute 
with  which  Sarah  closes  her  message  concern- 
ing her  grandmother.  "She  gradually  faded 
like  a  beautiful  flower  and  quietly  slipped  away 
from  us  to  join  her  other  loved  ones.  How 
I  wish  you  could  have  known  her!  She  was 
a  perfect  example  of  the  old-time  aristocratic 
southern  gentlewoman  and  the  dearest  grand- 
mother who  ever  lived."  Sarah  continues, 
"Have  you  ever  spent  the  summer  at  the  sea- 
shore with  eight  young  girl  cousins  as  guests 


and  with  no  help  about  the  place?  If  so,  you 
realize  that  the  summer  was  a  busy  and  rather 
strenuous  one.  All  the  Mexicans  and  Negroes 
went  to  the  cotton  fields.  However,  we  had 
a  good  time  swimming  daily  and  usually  end- 
ing the  day  with  a  moonlight  picnic,  built 
campfires  on  the  beach  a  number  of  times,  over 
which  we  cooked  fish  chowder,  toasted  bread 
and  made  coffee.  One  night  we  had  a  real  old- 
fashioned  beefsteak  broil  on  the  beach." 
•  (Sarah,  this  sounds  awfully  appetizing  and 
tempting.)  Between  times  Sarah  made  a  very 
interesting  trip  to  California.  Her  uncle  owns 
one  of  the  largest  herds  of  registered  Jerseys 
in  the  world.  They  make  fourteen  hundred 
pounds  of  butter  daily  and  twelve  hundred 
pounds  of  this  butter  and  fifteen  hundred 
pounds  of  milk  are  sent  daily  to  the  Base  Hos- 
pital at  Camp  Travis,  San  Antonio.  She 
speaks  of  the  rations  of  the  little  calves  and 
of  what  a  problem  it  is  to  give  the  right  kind- 
of  milk  to  the  calf  of  the  right  age,  for  their 
rations  depend  upon  their  age.  "Just  think  of 
having  cream  too  thick  to  pour,  lamb  chops 
and  roasts  that  would  melt  in  your  mouth,  ven- 
ison steaks  and  doves !  Often  when  I  was  up 
late  I  had  a  feeling  that  I  was  back  at  Lasell 
and  listening  for  a  knock  at  my  door  hearing 
Miss  Potter  or  Mademoiselle,  'Miss  Caldwell, 
how  does  it  happen  you  are  not  yet  in  bed?' 
Christmas  day  we  entertained  six  convalescent 
soldiers  who  seemed  delighted  to  be  in  a  home. 
We  have  tried  to  entertain  convalescent  sol- 
diers every  Sunday  since  the  camp  opened 
in  our  neighborhood.  I  had  hoped  to  enter 
Pratt  Institute  'this  month  to  take  a  year's 
course  in  dietetics  but  the  doctor  has  urged 
me  because  of  my  recent  attack  of  influenza  to 
defer  the  school  work  a  little  longer."  A  de- 
lightful letter  and  we  hope  some  day  soon  you 
will  come  this  way  for  your  post-graduate 
work  and  then  come  home  to  Lasell  for  a  visit. 
Ruth  Newcomb,  '18,  has  drifted  way  out  to 
Vallejo,  California,  as  the  guest  of  her  sister, 
Ruby  Newcomb  McCorkindale,  '14.  Ruby's 
husband  is  stationed  at  the  Mare  Island  Navy 
Yard.       Ruth  is  taking  a  course  for  private 


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secretaries  in  one  of  the  San  Francisco  schools. 
We  are  delighted  to  hear  from  this  recent 
graduate  and  well  know  that  her  record  in  the 
California' school,  judging  from  her  Lasell  ex- 
perience will  be  a  fine  one. 

Mar)-  Goodwillie  Townsend,  '12,  in  a  letter 
to  Dr.  Winslow  expressed  her  regret  that  the 
plan  to  be  at  Lasell  for  the  Mid-Winter  Re- 
union will  not  materialize.  Influenza  is  back 
of  this  disappointment,  as  it  is  the  cause  of  so 
many  changed  plans  everywhere.  We  are 
thankful  that  Mary  is  recovering  wholly  from 
her  affliction.  She  encloses  a  picture  of  her 
small  boy,  Frank,  which  she  declares  is  a  typi- 
cal picture  of  him,  "all  smiles  and  lots  of  ac- 
tion." We  are  thankful  that  Mary's  brother, 
Herrick,  has  come  through  the  war  unharmed. 
He  is  in  an  O.  T.  C.  near  Lyons,  France,  and 
hopes  to  be  home  soon. 

From  the  Instituto  Normal  para  Senoritas, 
Puebla,  Mexico,  comes  a  letter  to  our  Principal 
from  Florence  Harper.  Florence  has  drifted 
a  long  way  off,  but  is  making  good.  She 
writes,  "Last  summer  I  took  a  teacher's  course 
at  Columbia  University  after  which  I  came  to 
this  mission  to  teach  the  second,  third  and 
fourth  grades.  However,  my  work  has  not 
begun,  as  the  Mexican  schools  have  their  vaca- 
tion from  November  to  January.  The  climate 
is  about  the  same  as  that  of  southern  Califor- 
nia and  is  very  delightful.  We  are  seven 
thousand  feet  above  the  sea  level.  The  popu- 
.  lation  of  Puebla  is  about  one  hundred  thou- 
sand and  over  half  of  these  are  poor  ignorant 
Indians.  I  never  imagined  such  terrible  pov- 
erty existed  or  could  possibly  exist  as  I  find 
here.  The  mission  is  doing  a  great  work. 
Last  year  there  were  over  five  hundred  fifty 
students.  I  received  the  interesting  Woodland 
Park  catalog  and  would  like  much  to  revisit 
Auburndale  and  see  the  changes.  I  often  think 
of  Lasell  and  the  happy  days  spent  there  and 
wish  we  might  have  schools  like  it  in  Mexico. 
I  have  reqested  that  a  little  paper  called  Mex- 
ico be  sent  you  and  from  that  you  will  get  a 
better  idea  of  the  work  here." 

Mrs.  Ella  R.  Cushing,  '73,  Treasurer  Lasell 


Alumnae  Association,  sends  encouraging  re- 
ports of  the  loyalty  of  the  old  girls  who  are 
paying  up  generously  their  dues  and  making  a 
fine  fund  which  will  some  day  benefit  worthy 
Lasell  students. 

The  sad  tidings  have  come  to  us  of  the  death 
of  Margaret  Kelchner  who  passed  away  after 
a  lingering  illness.  Our  tenderest  sympathy 
is  extended  to  the  bereaved  family  and  friends. 

Lois  Nichols,  '18,  spent  several  days  at 
Lasell  as  the  guest  of  Rosenda  Cabrera.  She 
seemed  to  enjoy  ever}'  moment  of  her  stay  and 
we  certainly  enjoyed  having  her  in  our  midst. 

Leontine  Goodman,  '18,  came  back  and 
seemed  to  slip  into  her  own  place  in  the  Sem- 
inary. We  were  indeed  glad  to  welcome  her 
home. 

Edith  Powell  Van  der  Wolk,  '18,  again 
looked  in  on  us  and  inasmuch  as  her  home 
this  winter  is  in  Boston  we  live  in  hopes  of 
seeing  her  frequently. 

Gladys  Rankin  came  out  for  the  week-end  as 
the  guest  of  her  sister,  Julia.  We  certainly 
were  glad  to  see  her  and  wish  she  would  come 
often. 

During  the  vacation  season  Josephine  and 
Isabel  Fish  were  saddened  through  the  loss 
of  their  dear  mother  who  was  a  loyal  friend 
of  Lasell.  Our  tenderest  sympathy  is  extend- 
ed to  the  bereaved  daughters. 

Hazel  Bragdon  was  delighted  and  Lasell 
very  much  pleased  over  the  recent  visit  from 
Hazel's  father.  He  doesn't  claim  close  rela- 
tionship to  our  Principal  Emeritus,  but  there 
is  certainly  a  family  resemblance. 

Deborah  Ingraham  has  been  doubly  favored 
recently  in  a  visit  from  each  of  her  brothers, 
Ensign  J.  F.  Ingraham  of  Bowdoin  College, 
and  Horace  of  Worcester  Academy. 

Dorothy  Sprague's  mother  and  sister  drop- 
ped in  just  for  a  short  visit.  Mrs.  Sprague 
tells  us  that  they  have  "moved  up  to  Boston" 
for  the  winter  and  we  hope  that  this  means 
they  will  come  often  to  Lasell. 


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The  former  official  director  of  the  Leaves, 
Mr.  Jack  Connolly,  sends  an  acknowledgement 
to  Miss  Genn  which  we  share  with  the  present 
readers  of  the  Leaves.  Mr.  Connolly,  as  we 
have  said  in  another  column,  is  serving  in 
France  and  is  really  on  the  editorial  staff  of 
the  "Stars  and  Stripes."  He  opens  his  letter 
by  expressing  his  suprise  and  appreciation 
at  receiving  a  copy  of  the  Leaves  and  thinks 
the  stories  are  better  than  usual.  Mr.  Con- 
nolly has  had  an  unusual  opportunity  to  visit 
France,  especially  the  southern  part,  where  he 
has  been  gathering  materia]  for  stories  which 
will  appear  in  the  official  paper  over  there. 
He  writes,  "The  boys  from  the  26th  Division 
of  which  I  was  a  member  probably  went 
through  more  action  than  any  other  division 
in  France.  Our  losses  were  heavy  but  the  old 
fighting  spirit  was  with  the  boys  all  the  time. 
This  was  largely  due  to  the  efforts  of  the  peo- 
ple back  home,  especially  the  women  folk  and 
the  loyal  manner  in  which  they  supported  us. 
I  have  just  returned  from  Chateau-Thierry, 
Verdun  and  St.  Miheil  and  was  in  Paris  the 
day  President  Wilson  arrived."  Corporal 
Connolly  closes  his  letter  by  extending  cordial 
greetings  to  all  of  his  Lasell   friends. 

Girls  of  a  few  years  back  may  remember 
Artine  Mardoian,  or  better  known  to  them  as 
Artine,  the  Armenian  boy  one  oi  the  assis- 
tants to  our  chef.  Since  leaving  Lasell  Mr. 
Mardoian  has  been  a  student  at  Technology 
and  is  now  with  the  Army  of  Occupation  in 
Germany.  Miss  Genn  has  recently  received 
a  letter  from  Private  Mardoian  written  at 
Brohl  on  the  Rhine.  He  describes  the  scenery 
viewed  from  the  neighboring  hills  as  beautiful 
and  inspiring  but  declares  "we  were  not  up 
there  for  pleasure.  We  were  supposed  to  go 
'over  the  top'  theoretically.  That  is  some  of  the 
boys  had  previously  dug  several  trenches  on 
an  ideal  spot.  We  were  divided  into  special 
groups  and  hid  ourselves  in  bushes.  Several 
of  us  were  stationed  on  different  points  in 
trenches  to  act  as  jury.  I  was  among  the 
group  of  bombers.  We  carried  on  the  differ- 
ent phases  of  attack  so  successfully  that  when 


the  command  was  given  to  go  'over  the  top' 
we  found  ourselves  in  the  enemy  trenches 
chasing  out  thousands  of  prisoners.  Theoreti- 
cally we  had  very  few  casualties  and  no  pris- 
oners at  all  You  wouldn't  mind  my  being 
killed  theoretically,  would  you?  No,  I  was 
alive  when  the  attack  was  over.  And  I  did 
not  mind  going  'over  the  top'  in  this  manner. 

This  morning  we  had  Regimental  inspection. 
The  poor  bandsmen  were  steadily  pouring  out 
a  stream  of  music  to  keep  us  warm — I  suppose 
— to  stand  at  attention,  while  Major  and  his 
staff  were  carefully  inspecting  us.  It  seemed 
to  me  as  if  the  Major  was  studying  Psychology. 
He  was  always  looking  right  into  our  eyes. 

A  few  days  ago  I  received  a  copy  of  Lasell 
Leaves  that  you  had  sent  me.  There  were 
many  interesting  items  in  it.  Momentarily 
1  was  carried  by  my  thoughts  to  Auburndale. 
You  know  we  soldiers  are  experts  in  dream- 
ing at  daytime.  But  after  all  we  still  long  for 
real  things  that  means  the  States. 

Enclosed  I  am  sending  you  a  post-card  pic- 
ture taken  in  Brohl.  Perhaps  you  would  like 
to  know  what  that  paper  is  that  I  am  holding 
in  my  hand.  It  is  my  diploma  in  Applied 
Picking  and  Shoveling,  a  sepcial  course  given 
to  Army  Engneers.  I  am  quite  sure  Lasell 
doesn't  teach  this  course.  I  wonder  if  Dr. 
Winslow  would  let  me  teach  it  when  I  get 
back   to   the    States." 

Several  of  our  Lasell  family  including  our 
head  nurse,  Miss  Lindsay,  have  been  favored 
with  letters  from  our  former  nurse,  Miss 
Mabel  Cox,  who  is  now  in  the  American 
Nurses  Corps  across  the  water.  She  writes, 
"France  is  quite  a  place  but  not  as  sunny  as 
most  people  picture  it,  as  it  rains  most  of  the 
time.  We  sailed  on  a  French  boat,  one  of  the 
five  largest  boats  now  afloat,  had  a  fine  apart- 
ment, small  boudoir  with  brass  twin  beds, 
private  bath,  dressing  room,  plenty  of  mirrors, 
closets,  etc.,  so  we  considered  ourselves  very 
fortunate.  Among  the  distinguished  fellow 
passengers  was  Congressman  Fuller,  a  Polish 
member  of  council,  the  French  ambassador  to 
Japan  and  several  secret  service  men.    We  had 


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several  interesting  entertainments  including 
musicals  and  dances.  We  landed  in  Brest 
and  such  a  welcome  as  we  received.  Three 
hundred  nurses  cause  considerable  excitement. 
The  docks  where  we  landed  were  lined  with 
Yankees  who  yelled,  cheered  and  saluted  us. 
You  may  be  sure  the  movie  man  was  there 
on  his  job,  also  many  French  peasants. 

There  are  two  units  here  and  it  is  a  three 
thousand  bed  hospital  fairly  well  equipped. 
The  boys  are  leaving  for  the  states  rapidly. 
They  come  and  go  so  fast,  come  down  from 
the  front  and  board  the  boats  here.  Such  dear 
boys,  so  many  without  arms,  legs,  eyes.  Oh ! 
it  is  so  pitiful,  yet  they  are  so  cheerful  and 
bright.  I  don't  see  how  they  have  such  a  sun- 
ny disposition  and  they  are  so  eager  to  relate 
their  experiences  and  in  such  a  brave  way. 
We  have  five  hours  off  duty  daily,  an  after- 
noon a  week  and  generally  spend  our  time  off 
exploring  and  travelling  about  the  country. 
We  have  seen  most  of  the  interesting  sights. 
One  is  a  dungeon  started  by  Caesar  and  fin- 
ished by  Napoleon  and  it's  such  a  dingy,  dark, 
clammy  place,  has  quite  a  weird  history  con- 
nected with  it.  An  old  French  guide  showed 
us  through.     I  am  learning  French  fast. 

Brest  is  a  walled-in  city,  the  streets  are  very 
narrow,  dingy  and  especially  more  dismal  on 
account  of  the  rainy  weather.  We  are  about  a 
five  minutes'  walk  from  the  bay.  It's  beauti- 
ful there,  wonderful  chateaus  line  the  shore, 
gardens,  hot-houses,  roses,  it's  just  lovely  to 
walk  along  the  high  stone  walk  which  borders 
the  gardens  and  watch  the  tide  come  in  and 
on  a  sunny  day  it's  very  inspiring. 

Some  of  the  boys  have  given  us  amusement 
in  the  form  of  a  minstrel  show,  musicale,  etc. 
When  President  Wilson  landed  in  Brest  his 
naval  escort  gave  us  a  dance  and  we  had  a  very 
pleasant  evening  and  met  some  interesting  and 
noted  people." 

Space  forbids  us  giving  the  rest  of  this  very 
interesting  letter. 

Marguerite  Hall,  '16,  could  not  be  with  us 
at  the  reunion  because  she  is  training  in  the 
McLean  Hospital. 


Ruth  Winslow,  '16,  too,  was  detained  from 
joining  us  on  this  festive  occasion  because  of 
her  school  duties.  She  is  now  teaching  (the 
dearest  youngsters,  to  use  her  own  words)  in 
East  Lynn,  Connecticut. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Bittenbender 
(Elizabeth  Peirce)  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth 
of  their  son,  Steven,  on  February  thirteenth. 


A   WILD    RIDE 

{Continued from  page  7) 
bered  what  my  father  had  said  about  the  curb 
and  grasping  it  I  pulled  as  hard  as  I  possibly 
could  on  both  curb  and  rein,  but  it  did  no  good. 
Then  I  spoke  to  him,  but  this  seemed  to  me 
only  to  make  him  go  faster  yet.  Never  had 
I  ridden  on  a  horse  that  went  fast,  so  that  I 
was  unused  to  keeping  my  balance. 

''How  shall  I  ever  stop  him?"  I  thought,  foi 
he  seemed  to  have  no  notion  of  going  a  whit 
slower,  but  even  appeared  to  be  enjoying  him- 
self immensely,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  1 
wasn't.  I  was  beginning  to  sway  in  the  saddle 
preparatory,  I  was  certain,  to  falling.  We 
were  now  approaching  a  town  and  I  could  see 
visions  of  myself  passing  through  the  center  of 
it  like  a  second  John  Gilpin,  when  suddenly  I 
remembered  hearing  some  one  say  once  that  if 
I  ever  felt  myself  unsteady  while  riding,  I 
should  seize  the  horse's  mane  and  then  I  would 
not  fall  off. 

I  gripped  it.  I  was  now  holding  the  reins, 
the  curb,  and  the  mane  and  pulling  on  all  of 
them  together  like  mad.  To  cap  the  climax 
I  lost  one  of  my  stirrups.  That  was  my  finish  ! 
Having  nothing  to  aid  me  in  keeping  my  bal- 
ance, I  fell  off,  landing  on  the  ice  just  beyond 
a  watering  trough.  Immediately  Colonel 
stopped  and  began  nosing  about  me  as  if  to 
show  that  he  had  had  no  intention  at  all  to 
throw  me.  Luckily  I  wasn't  really  hurt,  and 
picking  myself  up  and  finding  no  bones  brok- 
en, I  made  right  there  a  solemn  resolve  never 
again  to  venture  to  ride  anything  more  frisky 
than  a  plough-horse  till  I  had  taken  a  course 
in  horsemanship. 

S.  Weymouth,  '19. 


Tommy  (at  Red-Cross  concert)  :  "What 
has  the  singer  got  her  eyes  closed  for?" 

Friend :  "Because  she  can't  bear  to  see  us 
suffer." 


Miss  Rand :     "What  is  the  capital  of  Ar- 
gentina ?" 

Deborah:     ".Brazil. " 


"He  told  the  shy  maid  of  his  love ; 
The   color   left   her   cheeks, 
But  on  the  shoulder  of  his  coat 
It   showed   for   several   weeks." 


-Ex. 


Some  girls'  heads  are  turned  by  Flattery; 
others  by  peroxide. 


Wanted 

Moving  stairway  from  Physiology  to  His- 
tory of  Art  recitations. 
■     Jam. 

Fifty  cent  tickets  to  Jack  o'Lantern. 

Jam. 

More  telephone  calls  at  Gardner. 

Jam. 

An  amiable  but  active  cat  at  Bancroft. 

And  again  Jam. 


Poor  Seniors,  they  are  worked  so  hard ! 
Why  they  are  even  losing  their  beauty ;  in 
fact,  a  few  of  them  are  taking  drastic  meas- 
ures to  regain  it.  Ask  Phil,  Ed.  Vance,  or 
Dot  Hopper,  poor  dears ! 


Medical  Examiner : 
trouble?" 

Recruit :     "No,  sir. 


"Have  you  any  organic 
I  ain't  a  bit  musical, 


Little  jars  of  jelly 

Little  jars  of  jam 

Make  the  mighty  Seniors 

Seem  small   as  grains   of   sand. 


Teacher  to  student :     "Ignorant  people  ask 
more  questions  than  wise  men  can  answer." 

Student :    "No  wonder  so  many  of  us  flunk . 
in  our  Exams." 


"Madame,"  announced  the  new  maid, 
"your  husband  is  lying  unconscious  in  the  re- 
ception hall,  with  a  large  box  beside  him  and 
a  paper  crushed  in  his  hand." 

"Ah !"    cried   the  madam,   in    ecstasy,    "my 

new  hat  has  come  !" — Ex. 


Mother :  "Willie,  you  have  been  fighting 
again  and  lost  two  of  your  teeth." 

Willie:  "No,  I  ain't,  either;  I've  got  both 
of  'em  in  my  pocket." — Ex. 


"There  must  be  some  mistake  in  my  ex- 
amination marks,"  complained  the  student. 
"I  don't  think  I  deserved  to  be  marked  zero." 

"I  don't  think  so  either,"  agreed  the  teach- 
er, "but  it  is  the  lowest  mark  I  can  give." — 
£.r. 

{Continued  on  page  IS) 


The  Leaves  has  received  so  many  splendid 
Exchanges  this  month  that  it  is  impossible  for 
the  editors  to  comment  upon    all    of    them. 
Taken  as  a  whole,  the  magazines  contain  much 
better  reading  matter  and  present  a  much  more 
attractive  outward  appearance  than  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  school  year.  On  account  of  the 
influenza  epidemic  a  great  many  of  the  schools 
were  forced  to  take  an  unexpected  vacation  in 
the  earl}-  fall ;  consequently  the  work  of  edit- 
ing school  papers  was  greatly  broken  up.  jBut 
everything  is  running  smoothly  now  and  we 
trust   that   the    editorial    boards    of    our   Ex- 
changes will  live  up  to  their  New  Year's  reso- 
lutions  and   continue  to   produce  as  pleasing 
magazines  throughout  the  year  as  their  Jan- 
uary numbers  have  indicated. 
Hotchkiss  Literary  Monthly — Lakeville,  Conn. 
The  Jabberwock — Boston,  Mass. 
Orange  and  Black — Middletown,  Conn. 
Philomath — Framingham,  Mass. 
Recorder — Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Keene  Kronicle — Keene,  N.  H. 
The  Reviezv — Newton,  Mass. 
The  Argus — Gardner,  Mass. 
The  Raysonian — New  York  City. 
The  Radnorite — Wayne,  Pa. 
Echoes — Fort  Lee,  N.  J. 
The  World— St.  Paul,  Minn. 
The  Columbian — Columbia,  S.  C. 
The  B udget— Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
IV h ittier  Miscellany — Wilmingto 
The  Quill— New  Brighton,  N.  J. 
The  Mirror — Bethlehem,  Pa. 


Del. 


The  Missile — Petersburg,  Va. 

The  Megaphone — Franklin,  Mass. 

The  Roman — Rome,  Ga. 

X-Ray — Anderson,  Ind. 

Academy  Monthly — Philadelphia,  Pa. 

The  Magpie — Waterbury,  Conn. 


AS  OTHERS  SEE  US 


Lasell  Leaves: — Your  little  paper  is  exceed- 
ingly interesting,  especially  your  narration  of 
May  Day  and  River  Day  activities,  which  be- 
speak brisk  life  and  animation.  Your  short 
stories  are  very  appropriate  to  the  times. 
Don't  you  think,  however,  that  your  June  num- 
ber would  have  a  more  pleasing  aspect  were 
the  cover  made  of  better  paper?  Echoes — 
Fort  Lee,  N.  J. 

Lasell  Leaves :  Your  art  editors  have  pro- 
duced splendid  results.  The  Argus — Gardner, 
Mass. 

"Lasell  Leaves"  a  good  taste  in  our  mouth — ■ 
what  a  "personal"  department !  Certainly  a 
treasure  for  graduates — apparently  the  wages 
of  beauty  and  brains  is  marriage.  Exchange 
Editors,  you  need  work. 


AS  WE  SEE  OTHERS 


The  World— St.  Paul,  Minn. 

The  World  is  one  of  our  very  best  ex- 
changes. We  look  forward  to  its  coming 
each  month  with  pleasure  because  it  contains 


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so  much  excellent  reading  matter  and  so  many 

fine   cuts. 

The  Megaphone — Franklin,  Mass. 

Your  service  number  is  worthy  of  praise. 
The  letters  from  your  boys  in  service  are  es- 
pecially interesting. 
The  Radnorite — Wayne,  Pa. 

What  an  attractive  cover  you  have  this 
month !  The  school  seal  gives  it  individuality. 
The  Roman — Rome,  Ga. 

A  small  magazine,  but  brimful   of  stories, 
poems,  and  jokes. 
X-Ray — Anderson,  Ind. 

Welcome,  X-Ray!     You  are  another  of  our 
splendid  exchanges.     The  January  number  is 
especially  fine. 
The  Raysonian — New  York  City. 

Don't  you  think  that  a  few  cuts  would  im- 
prove Tile  Raysonian? 
The  Budget— Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

We  can  find  nothing  to  criticise  about  the 
Budget  because  it  is  such  an  all-round  school 
magazine.  The  departments  are  well  bal- 
anced and  the  cover  is  unusually  attractive. 


JOKES 

{Continued from  page  16) 
How  did  the  Oxford  tie  ? 
What  did  the  Baltic  sea? 
How  did  the  Diamond  Dye? 
How  can  the  honey  bee? 
When  did  the  canvas  sail  ? 
Why  did  the  cod-fish  ball? 
What  did  the  evening  mail  ? 
What    did   the    railroad-track? 
Who  heard  the  kitten's-tail  ? 
Who'd    ever   think    Paris-green  ? 


AT  GARDNER 


Sometimes  on  the  winter  mornings 
When   our   time   is  limited 
We  forget  our  teachers'  warnings 
And  neglect  to  air  our  beds. 

Now,  since  twice  we  have  been  driven 
To  our  home  upon  the  hill, 
We  all  rise  at  quarter  of  seven; 
We  don't  wait  for  the  last  bell. 


Pure,  delicious, 
wKolesome 
A  well  made  cup  of  1 

BAKER'5  COCOA 

is  a  larde  part  of  a 
£>ood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition, very  little 
waste,  and  its  use 
saves  otker  roods. 

rflADZ  MARK  O/t  £V£RY  PACKAGE 


Let  us  know  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 
WALTHAM 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


Nwtrtmt  Sntat  dflmpattij 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices  : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-12 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese.  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phones  Richmond  202-203-3087 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 


A  FRIEND 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


TELEPHONES 
Richmond   883,  885 


RUDOLF  STOLAR 


R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New    Faneuil   Hall    Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing   the   full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid   in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and    92,    16   and    17   North   Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market',    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  dimming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT   P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese   and  Eggs 

2    and   4   Faneuil   Hall    Market 
Boston,   Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Tumbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
'  Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter- Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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NECKWEAR 

CRISP  AND   NEW 

Use  your   dress   for  a  background   and 
realize  the  charm  of  these  ad- 
vance Spring  Models 


Beauti 

fully  made  in  dainty  designs  and 

colors  are  these  New  Collars, 

Collar  and  Cuff  Sets 

and  Jabots 

50  Cents  to  $1.50 

c. 

F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 

Shop 

Telephone 

By  Mail 

Beach  3460 

T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model  in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.   Also  in  Black  or  Brown 

Calf   with   Buckskin   Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


2L  f .  TJfoilantor  Sc  (£0. 

Misses'     and     Young    Ladies' 
Suits,     Coats     and     Dresses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  W 

at  Popular  Prices 


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COMPLIMENTS  OF 

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2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


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BEACH   1561 

PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

"That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  da})" 

The  Boston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 

BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specialty 


gX  Brothers 

TTop/srs 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

GJtjmre  l&mt& 
Utairt0  *«*  GDrrtjfajs 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipt 

Packed  in   Stone  Jars 

A.   T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 

Send   for   price   list   of  over  60   kinds 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 

PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire   Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 

Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

Domestic  Fruits 

Confectionery,    Cigars 

and  Tobacco 

331  AUBURN  ST.,       AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 
Tel.  Con.    1275  N.  W. 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1907 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON   PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College    Dramatic  Work  a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach   1 45 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

Mnsu  Dealers 

2B  Park  St.,  Boston  Tel.  Haymarket  1150 

Send     for     our    recent     catalogues.     Mail 

orders  filled   the  same   day    as   received. 

Music    sent    on    selection    if    desired. 


William   M.  Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale   Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


BUNKER  HILL 

COFFEE 


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MARCH,  1919 


LASELL    LEAVES 


New  England's  Greatest  Store 

IS  FULLY  EQUIPPED  TO  SUPPLY 

STUDENTS'  REQUIREMENTS 

OF  PRACTICALLY  EVERY  KIND  AND  NATURE 


Wearing  Apparel  in  Unlimited  Assortments. 
Furniture,  Rugs,  Pictures,  Draperies,  Room  Ornaments. 

Books,  Music,  Writing  Materials,  Cameras,  Gift  Articles,  and  the  multitude  of 
other  things  School  and  College  Life  demands. 

All  at  prices  as  low  as  (or  lower  than)  can  be  found  anywhere  for 
like  quality  —  Free  Delivery  in  Massachusetts  of  any  purchase. 


Jordan  Marsh  Company 

Washington,  Avon,  Summer,  Bedford  and  Chauncy  Streets 


Boston 


New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 


Diamonds 
Watches 

Bracelet  Watches 
Platinum  Jeweliy 
Green  Gold  Jewelry 
Gold  Pocket  Knives 
Gold  Pencils 
Silver  Goods 


Combs  Fountain  Pens 
Aluminum  Hair  Ornaments     Brass  Goods 

Roman  Pearls  Opera  Glasses 

Cameo  Brooches  Chafing  Dishes 

Vanity  Cases  Percolators 

Doreen  Boxes  Parisian  Ivory 

Photo  Frames  Ebony  Goods 

Leather  Goods  Panel  Mirrors 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 


Our    Watch    and    Jewelry     Repair     Departments    do   the   best 
work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving   Department 


MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON 


Plate  and    100  Visiting   Cards,    Script     $1.75 
Plate   and     50  Visiting   Cards,  Old  Eng.  $2.75 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


•BOSTON* 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


21  West  St. 
Tel.  Beach  952 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 


Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Let  us  know  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


Nroitim  ©rust  dompanij 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-12 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Here  You  Pay  No  Fee 

GO  TO  lawyer  or  doctor  for  advice  and  you  rightly 
expect  to  pay.  Come  to  us  for  advice  and  it  costs 
you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
what  wrong.  You  may  follow  their  advice  or  not.  Cost 
is  the  same  — nothing. 

JOHN   H.  PRAY  &  SONS  CO. 

646   Washington  St.,   Opposite  Boylston  St.,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 
Pemberton  /   Square 

BOSTON     -      -     MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


B\Sm_   tpAYE5 


Vol.  XXXXIV 


LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  MARCH,  1919 


No.  6 


Published  Monthly  from  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
Entered  as  second-class  matter  at  ihe  Boston,  Mass.,  Post  Office. 
Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rate  of  postage  provided  for  in  Section  1103,  Act  of  October  3,  1917,  authorized  on  October  28, 191S. 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business  Manager 
DOROTHY   HOPPER 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES  O'BRIEN 

Subscription  Editor 

EDITH   VANCE 

Assistant 

Local  Editors 

CAROLIE  ABRAMS 

VIRGINIA  QUARLES 

Assistant    Editor 

DOROTHY  BALCH 

FRANCES   HEATH 

Literary  Editor 
MARY   HOPKINS 

Joke  Editor 
PRISCILLA  ALDEN 

Assistant 
KATHERINE   RICE 

Art  Editors 
MERCIE  NICHOLS 
LEILYA  BARKMAN 

Exchange  Editors 
SARAH    HOPKINS 
DOROTHY   HALL 

TERMS,  in  Advance  :  One  Copy,  one  year,  (including  postage),  $  1 .00.     Single  Copies,  1 5  cents. 


CONTENTS 


FRONTISPIECE 


LITERARY 

Cho  Cho  Sau H.   Westervelt 

Dyeing  a  Skirt Doris  Crowley 

His  Bit    Gladys  Burnett 

Ole  Pete Frances  Coombs 


EDITORIAL 


LOCALS 


'PERSONAL 13 


JOKES 

SUPPLEMENT 


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A   WINTER  TRIP   TO   THE   WHITE   MOUNTAINS 


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CHO  CHO  SAU 


Cho  Cho  Sau  knelt  before  her  tiny  mirrored 
cabinet,  tilting  her  head  to  better  admire  the 
sleek  coil  of  hair  being  arranged  by  the  dainty 
little  maid.     It  was  a  'lovely  morning  in  early 
spring  and  a  branch  of  the  old  cherry  tree  be- 
side the  house  poked  an  inquisitive  spray  of 
|  pink  blossoms   toward  her  beyond   the   open 
I  screen.    The  sunshine,,  streaming  through,  put 
i  to  shame  the  feeble  warmth  of  the  small  brass 
pot   of    charcoal    and    filled)  the   room    with 
dancing  light. 

Cho  Cho  Sau  was  feeling  the  spring  in  her 
blood  this  morning,  and  her  own  voice  sang  as 
■  she  said  to  her  maid,  "It  is  almost  time,  Suzu- 
ki." 

Cho  Cho  Sau's  heart  beat  fast  as  she  moved 
over  a  little  nearer  to  the  open  screen,  for  she 
had  a  secret  which  she  was  guarding  carefully. 
Every  morning  at  just  this  time  she  waited 
and  watched,  and  every  morning  a  young  mm 
walked  hurriedly  past  with  a  glance  toward 
her  open  screen.  How  handsome  he  was,  and 
how  proudly  he  carried  his  head !  She  moved 
again  slightly,  then  sat  up  suddenly  with  pulse 
throbbing,  for  he  was  passing.  Who  he  was, 
poor  Cho  Cho  Sau  could  never  know,  but  she 
recognized  from  his  garb  that  he  was  the  son 
of  a  Samurai. 

He  had  gone,  and  she  turned  again  to  her 
mirror;  but  all  the  glow  of  expectation  was 
gone  from  her  face  and  a  cloud  seemed  to 
have  passed  over  her.  With  pathetic  careless- 
ness she  bade  the  maid  bring  her  the  beautiful 


new  kimono  which  she  was  to  wear  tomorrow. 
She  tried  it  on  and  preened  a  bit  before  the 
glass  which  showed  her  a  lovely  picture.  Her 
black  hair  was  dressed  with  the  greatest  care 
and  a  tinge  of  the  happy  flush  which  had  dyed 
her  cheek  was  reflected  from  the  magnificent 
kimono  of  scarlet  brocade.  It  was  her  wedding 
kimono  and  far  lovelier  than  any  other  which 
she  possessed,  but  she  suddenly  threw  it  off 
with  a  gesture  of  disgust.  Her  parents  had 
told  her  that  tomorrow  she  was  to  be  married, 
and  nothing  she  might  say  or  do  could  change 
that  fact.  Tomorrow  she  was  to  be  married — ■ 
and  how  could  she  tell  her  parents  of  this 
secret  hope  that  she  had  cherished. 

It  was  another  bright  and  beautiful  morning 
when  she  woke  next  day,  but  her  heart 'was 
heavy  as  she  sat  up  among  her  soft  quilts.  At 
her  call  Suzuki  came,  and  soon  she  was  again 
clad  in  the  beautiful  scarlet  kimono.  She 
closed  her  eyes  while  Suzuki  covered  her  face 
with  white  paint,  and  when  it  had  dried,  poor 
Cho  Cho  Sau  could  no  longer  open  her  eyes 
or  smile,  lest  the  stiff  white  coating  crack. 
Suzuki  then  added  small  red  circles  to  each 
cheekbone,  and  a  tiny  one  on  the  forehead, 
and  Cho  Cho  Sau  was  ready  for  the  wedding. 

She  was  brought  to  the  house  of  the  groom 
in  a  closed  chair  and  taken  to  a  small  platform 
where  the  groom  sat,  resplendent  in  his  purple 
robes.  How  her  hand  trembled  as  she  knelt 
beside  this  man  whom  she  had  never  seen, 
and  went  through  the  simple  ceremony  of  pre- 
tending to  eat  and  drink,  while  a  family  head- 
dress was  placed  on  her  head  and  then  re- 


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moved.  How  quietly  they  both  knelt,  waiting 
while  the  black  beans  were  set  out  to  appease 
the  evil  spirits.  Then  he  gently  led  his  new 
bride  into  the  feast  of  eel  and  lotus  root,  and 
as  she  knelt  there  beside  him,  she  opened  her 
eyes  and  found  him  to  be — her  Samurai. 

//.  Westervelt,  '20. 


DYEING  A  SKIRT 


Monday  morning,  and  my  turn  to  clean 
room !  Of  course,  I  was  perfectly  willing,  and 
started  in  by  "weeding  out"  the  closet.  Rolled 
up  in  a  ball,  down  in  one  corner,  I  discovered 
an  old  velour  suit-skirt  that  had,  once  upon  a 
time,  looked  respectable.  It  was,  naturally, 
slightly  soiled,  but  as  it  was  about  the  width 
now  required  by  fashion,  I  decided  it  would 
be  quite  in  style  if  I  could  only  fix  it  up. 
;  "To-  fix-  it  up",  however,  was  the  problem. 
To  be  sure  I  had  never  had  any  experience 
along  that  line,  but  I  had  plenty  of  confidence 
in  myself,  and  sat  down  to  think  over  the 
situation.  I  decided  that  dyeing  it  would  be 
best.  Accordingly,  I  rushed  down  to  the  phar- 
macy and  obtained  two  cakes  of  Sunset  Dye, 
the  darkest  brown  possible.  I  selected  this 
kind  of  dye,  as  I  had  often  heard  of  the 
marvelously  satisfactory  results  it  usually  pro- 
duced. 

Immediately  upon  my  return,  1  flew  upstairs, 
grasped  the  skirt,  went  down  again  to  the 
sewing  room,  and  began.  After  skirmishing 
around  a  bit,  I  found  a  floor  pail,  in  which  I 
'  boiled  the  dye.  Then  I  put  in  the  skirt.  I 
boiled  it  for  four  or  five  minutes,  and  then 
wrung  it  out.  All  seemed  serene. 
'  I  put  the  skirt  on  the  side  of  the  sink  and 
tried  to  wash  out  the  pail.  This,  fortunately, 
became  clean  after  much  scrubbing  and  I  put 
it  away.  In  doing  so  I  glanced  at  my  hands. 
They  too  were  dyed  a  dark,  dark  brown !  I 
picked  up  my  masterpiece,  went  upstairs,  and 
shook  it  out.  To  my  horrible  disappointment,  it 
was  all  terribly  streaked  in  colors  ranging  from 
a  buff  to  a  black.  In  utter  disgust  I  twisted  the 
offending  garment  into  a  tight  wad,  picked  it 


up,  and  threw  it  into  the  ash  barrel. 

The  next  thing  was  to  get  my  hands  clean. 
I  scrubbed  and  scrubbed  them — finally  with 
clear  ammonia — and  succeeded  at  last  in  get- 
ting most  of  the  color  off,  as  well  as  con- 
siderable skin.  It  certainly  was  a  "staying" 
dye,  I'll  guarantee  that;  my  hands  gave  proof 
of  this  for  about  a  week. 

Such  was  my  luck  at  dyeing  a  skirt !  But 
perhaps  you,  gentle  reader,  may  be  more 
successful  in  an  attempt  at  "fixing  something 
up".  Doris  Crowley. 


"HIS    BIT" 


He  had  heard  the  cry  for  Freedom 
And    had    listened    not    in    vain, 

But   had  marched   away  with   other  lads — 
No    thoughts   of  pomp   or   fame. 

He   had   left   behind   him   home   and   friends, 

To  fight  for  Uncle  Sam, 
And   show  to   all  what  he  would   do 

To    prove   himself   a   man. 

With    the    true-born   Yankee    Spirit 

He  had  sailed  across  the  sea, 
To  fight  the  fight  until  the  end — 

The  dawn  of  Victory. 

Amidst    the    roar   of   cannon 

And  noise  of  bursting  shell 
He  had  stood  his  ground,  unfaltering 

Before   the   mouth    of   Hell. 

Then,    on   his    way    rejoicing 

He  had  left  the  foreign  shore 
And  back  to  friends  and  home,  had  come — 

To    see    them    never    more! 

"Speak   not  of  pitying  me!"   he   said; 

"My   sacrifice   was    small 
Compared  with  that  of  many  men 

Who  gave  the  world  their  all. 

"I  have  my  life,  and  I  am  young, — 

How.  could   I   e'er  be  sad? 
I   offered  all — my  life  was  spared; 

My  very   soul   is    glad. 

"I   journeyed   forth   in    Freedom's   cause, 

To  fight  a  sacred  fight. 
Alas — 'twas  such  a  little  thing 

To    sacrifice   my   sight!" 

— Gladys  Burnet. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


OLE  PETE 


Down  in  New  Orleans  in  years  gone  by  on 
the  Mississippi,  river  of  dreams  and  wild  ro- 
mance, whose  turbid  waters  in  time  of  flood 
roll  resistlessly  along  their  muddy  course, 
threatening  disaster  to  the  settlements,  were 
located  many  negro  hamlets.  One  of  these 
which  in  particular  interested  me  at  one  time 
while  in  the  Sunny  South,  was  Crow  Village, 
closely  bordering  on  this  sullen  Mississippi. 
The  scenery  was  picturesque.  At  night  the 
slant  rays  of  the  setting  sun  fell  on  the  tur- 
bulent expanse  of  the  river.  Tall  and  dark, 
the  stately  cypress,  hung  with  long  draperies 
of  gray  funereal  moss,  stood  in  the  golden 
light,  as  the  heavily  laden  steamboats  made 
their  way  down  stream  until  in  the  distance 
they  seemed  but  strange  blurry  things,  gray, 
mysterious. 

Now  the  chief  figure  in  this  little  darkey 
settlement  was  a  negro  known  as  "Ole  Pete". 
He  was  one  of  the  blackest  of  his  ebon  race, 
and  his  round,  shining  eyes,  glittering  like 
glass  beads,  moved  with  quick  and  restless 
glances.  When  he  was  surprised,  his  mouth 
half  opened  with  astonishment,  displaying  a 
set  of  brilliantly  white  teeth.  Of  about  mid- 
dle age,  he  had  the  darkey's  characteristic 
woolly  head,  fat  shining  cheeks,  and  broad 
chest.  The  old  man  had  the  soft  impression- 
able nature  of  his  kindly  race,  ever  yearning 
toward  "de  chilluns",  as  he  called  their  little 
ones. 

How  vividly  I  remember  Aunt  Mandy  get- 
ting her  man's  supper  and  watching  with  anx- 
ious interest  certain  frizzling  morsels  in  a 
stew  pan,  Ole  Pete,  meanwhile,  watching  the 
youngsters  with  a  paternal  interest  and  an 
adoring  affection  that  made  them  seem  to  him 
creatures  almost  divine.  Nevertheless,  it  was 
to  the  white  children,  with  their  golden  hair 
and  deep  blue  eyes,  that  he  was  apparently 
most  attracted.  Pete  had  a  thousand  simple 
ways  of  propitiating  and  inviting  the  approach- 
es of  little  people,  and  surely  played  well  his 
part  of  entertainer.    Many  times  he  would  cut 


cherry-stone  baskets  for  them  or  carve  gro- 
tesque faces  on  hickory  nuts ;  as  for  his  pock- 
ets, well,  they  were  generally  filled  to  the  top 
with  old  jack-knives,  striped  candy  sticks  and 
sundry  curious  goodies. 

Yet  it  was  in  song  and  dance  that  Pete  ex- 
celled. When  told  to  strike  up  a  song  or  to 
play  "that  thar  ole  banjo,"  he  needed  no  sec- 
ond invitation,  but  grabbed  straightway  his 
beloved  instrument  and  with  a  queer  rum- 
strumming  raggledly  sort  of  prelude,  peculiarly 
his  own,  drew  all  the  darkies  of  the  quarter 
from  their  cabins.  How  grotesque,  how  ridi- 
culous he  looked  as  he  swayed  about  in  his 
weird,  fantastic,  spinning  dances,  clapping  his 
hands,  knocking  his  knees  together  in  a  sort 
of  rhythm.  Certainly  one  of  the  most  amusing 
features  of  such  displays  was  the  succession 
of  odd  guttural  noises  that  often  proceeded 
from  his  throat,  usually  finishing  with  a  pro- 
longed closing  note,  as  weird  and  unearthly  as 
the  scream  of  a  steam  whistle. 

Many  lovable  traits,  many  amusing  oddities 
had  Ole  Pete,  but  he  had,  too,  certain  faults ; 
and  among  them  was  that  of  glaring  greedi- 
ness for  food.  His  voracious  appetite  for 
chicken  was  insatiable.  Whether  they  were 
given  to  him  or  were  slyly  abstracted  from 
neighbors'  roosts  mattered  not  to  Pete.  Many 
times  had  he  been  called  before  the  Court  for 
stealing  his  favorite  fowl,  pleading  guilty  al- 
ways— the  old  sinner — and  shaking  his  head 
in  a  mournful  way,  as  though  very  sorry  that 
he  had  committed  the  naughty  deed.  Yet  he 
never  seemed  to  reform  in  spite  of  the  various 
sentences  of  the  Court,  intended  to  work  his 
reformation. 

Pete  claimed  to  have  got  religion  at  a  camp 
meeting  two  years  ago,  and  certainly  he  ex- 
hibited great  fervor  in  public  worship.  In 
prayer  he  especially  excelled,  indulging  him- 
self sometimes  in  a  lengthy  solo  to  the  im- 
mense pleasure  of  his  fellow  worshippers  af- 
terwards. At  such  meetings  the  singing  usual- 
ly included  "Jordan's  Panks",  and  "Canaan's 
Fields",  and  the  "New  Jerusalem".  As  they 
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All  congratulations  to  the  new  Leaves  staff ! 
We  know  the  paper  will  improve  under  your 
direction  and  we  sincerely  hope  the  school,  as 
a  whole,  will  uphold  and  aid  you.  The  Leaves 
is  LaselPs  representative  in  the  numerous  other 
schools  that  it  visits  and  in  the  homes  of  our 
"old  girls" ;  let  it  therefore  be  the  best  spokes- 
man you  can  possibly  make  it. 

This  delightful  weather  together  with  so 
many  concerts,  lectures  and  receptions,  to  say 
nothing  of  its  being  "prom"  season,  has  played 
more  or  less  havoc  with  our  studies.  Now 
that  midyears  are  over,  most  of  us  have  allow- 
ed ourselves  to  let  down  a  bit.  It  is  so  easy 
to  quit — but  who  wants  to  be  a  quitter  ?  Work 
accumulates  so  rapidly  that  it  doesn't  pay  to 
let  a  single  clay's  lessons  go  unprepared.  Not 
only  must  we  keep  on  working,  but,  as  Miss 
Packard  told  us  in  Chapel,  we  must  work  effi- 
ciently. We  must  plan  our  time,  learn  what 
our  capacities  are,  and  so  secure  the  greatest 
results  with  the  least  effort.  If  we  do  this 
our  work,  our  lessons,  will  not  be  drudgery 
but  pleasure. 

Once  behind,  always  behind !  Avoid  this  by 
saving  time.  If  you  should  try  this,  think  of 
all  the  seemingly  impossible  which  could  be 
accomplished  in  each  day.  Then  there  would 
be  no  terrible  rush  and  confusion  at  the  last 
minute  ;  no  familiar  yellow  notes,  as  a  welcome, 
in  the  otherwise  empty  mail  box.  All  would 
be  happy,  and  complaining  of  lack  of  time 
would  be  unheard. 


OLE    PETE 

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sang,  some  laughed,  some  cried ;  and  Ole  Pete 
would  clap  enthusiastically,  shake  hands  with 
vigor,  and  rejoice  with  his  brethren,  as  if  they 
had  all  fairly  gained  the  "Other  Side  of  the 
River". 

Like  almost  all  his  race  at  the  time,  his 
chances  for  an  education  had  been  small  in- 
deed. Ever  since  he  could  remember  he  had 
worked  daily,  at  first  in  the  cotton  fields  and 
later  in  the  mills.  One  of  his  employers  had 
taught  him  his  letters,  which  he  learned  as  if 
by  magic,  but  in  writing  he  was  not  an  apt 
pupil.  His  talent  for  every  kind  of  drollery, 
grimacing,  mimicry,  dancing  and  song,  seemed 
inexhaustible. 

A  typical  southern  darkey  was  Ole  Pete, 
possessing  all  the  likable  qualities  of  his  race, 
with  not  a  few  of  its  faults  of  course;  but  in 
general  industrious,  patient,  cheerful  and  kind. 
He  made  life  brighter  for  those  who  knew 
him.  Of  how  many  of  his  self-considered 
superiors  can  the  same  be  said? 

Frances  Coombs 


Some  of  the  problems  which  women  will 
confront  in  the  next  generation  was  the  theme 
of  the  stirring  address  given  by  Mr.  Frank- 
Spear,  on  Feb.  2.  He  told  ns  that  no  two 
people  are  created  equal  and  because  of  this, 
we  should  not  attempt  to  be  like  someone  else 
but  try  our  utmost,  individually,  to  measure 
up  one  hundred  percent.  To  do  this,  we  must 
keep  ourselves  well  physically ;  we  must  de- 
velop our  mentality  by  using  all  our  brain 
power  all  the  time ;  lastly  we  must  have  some 
kind  of  a  vocation. 

Mr.  Spear  warned  us  of  the  ever  increasing 
trouble  between  labor  and  capital  in  this  coun- 
try. He  said  that  if  conditions  were  not  soon 
improved,  a  civil  war  would  ensue.  In  order 
to  change  this  spirit  of  hostility  to  one  of 
friendliness  before  we  are  forced  to,  he  sug- 
gested that  we  cultivate  a  spirit  of  good  will 
toward  all,  avoid  useless  extravagance,  keep 
our  standards  high — for  men  follow  those  of 
the  womenfolk — and  above  all  retain  our  spir- 
ituality. If  we  all  follow  the  teachings  of 
Christ,  our  future  will  be  secure. 

Christian  Endeavor,  Tuesday,  Feb.  4,  was 
led  by  Martha  McLaughlin.  Her  topic  was 
Self-Centered     or     Christ-Centered.     Several 


very  good  topic  thoughts  on  actions,  selfish- 
ness and  thoughtfulness,  were  read. 

Vespers  on  Sunday,  Feb.  9,  was  held  im- 
mediately after  dinner  instead  of  in  the  even- 
ing. Miss  Alice  Levins,  a  graduate  of  Smith, 
told  us  of  the  work  of  the  Smith  Unit  in 
devastated  France.  Miss  Levins  emphasized 
the  necessity  of  true  service  and  self-forget- 
fulness  if  one  really  wished  to  be  of  use.  She 
showed  how  important  it  is  in  work  of  this 
kind  to  be  ready  and  willing  to  do  anything 
that  is  desired.  The  unit  went  into  an  area 
that  had  been  occupied  by  the  Germans  for 
nearly  three  years.  When  they  were  forced  to 
evacuate,  they  deported  all  the  able-bodied 
boys  and  girls  over  fifteen.  Then  the  peasants 
were  sent  away  and  their  villages  destroyed. 
Miss  Levins  told  how  these  people  were  helped 
but  how  really  needy  they  are  even  today. 
Besides  the  work  with  the  French  people,  the 
unit  helped  our  own  boys  by  cheering  them  up, 
by  establishing  club  houses,  and  even  by  nurs- 
ing in  the  hospitals  when  needed. 

Helen  Webster  led  Christian  Endeavor, 
Tuesday,  Feb.  11,  and  spoke  of  how  we  must 
avoid  grouping  ourselves,  and  must  learn  to 
be  more  considerate  of  one  another.    If  everv 


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girl  sincerely  tried  to  make  every  other  girl 
happy,  soon  a  difference  would  be  noticed.  In 
fact,  the  whole  school  would  be  happier.-  Isn't 
it  worth  trying? 

At  the  first  reception  of  the  year,  Feb.  6, 
the  French  Department  were  the  hostesses. 
During  the  first  part  of  the  evening  French  III 
gave  a  play,  "Gianni  Schicchi",  adopted  from 
a  Florentine  opera.  It  is  the  story  of  a  very 
rich  man  who  dies  and  leaves  nothing  to  his 
numerous  relatives.  Gianni  Schicchi,  an  old  . 
friend,  comes  in  and  saves  the  day  by  posing 
as  Buoso,  the  dead  man.  However,  the  rela- 
tives get  nothing. 

The   Personages   Were: 
Gianni     Schicchi  .         .         .  Muriel  James,  '20 

Lauretta,   sa   fille  .         .  Marion   Eaton.  '20 

Zita,    "La   vieille,"    cousine   de   Buoso 

Helen  Files,  '20 
Rinuccio.  neveu  de  Zita  Helen  Westervelt,  '20 
Gherardo,  neveu  de  Buoso  Doris  Crawford.  '20 
Nella.    sa   femme  .         .  Katherine   Forgie,  '20 

Gherardino,    leur    fils  .     Gladys  Keniston,  '20 

Betto  de  Signa,  cousin  pauvre 

Virginia  Quarles,  '19 
Simone,     cousin  .         .         .      Maude  Tait,  '20 

Marco,    sa     fille  .         .      Hazel   Morrison,  '21 

La  Sciesca,  sa  femme  .  Georgina  Flattery  '19 
Le    Docteur  ....  Edith  Abbott,  '19 

Le    Notaire  .         .         Marguerite    Perley,  '20 

Premier   Temoin  .         .      Sylvia  Bregman,  '20 

Deuxieme  Temoin       .         .        Julia    Kittridge,  '21 

At  Vespers,  Sunday,  Feb  16,  Bishop  Clancy, 
of  India,  spoke  to  us  on  the  war  from  the 
Orient  side  of  the  world.  Germany  planned 
world  dominion  by  way  of  the  East.  Thus 
we  see  how  clearly  she  had  planned  ahead  in 
the  construction  of  the  Berlin-Bagdad  Rail- 
way. The  purpose  was  to  carry  arms,  troops, 
and  supplies  toward  India,  the  key  to  the  East, 
desired  by  all  the  nations.  The  collapse  of 
Bulgaria,  of  Turkey,  and  of  Austria  meant 
the  defeat  of  Germany.  In  India,  the  Indians 
themselves  helped  defeat  the  Germans,  and  the 
Turks  failed  with  their  holy  war  that  was  to 
bring  the  rest  of  the  Orient  under  German 
rule.  Today,  countries  that  have  been  under 
Turkish  misrule  for  ages  are  free  and  are  go- 
ing to  have  their  chance.  God's  hand  has  been 
in  all  this  change. 


Christian  Endeavor,  Tuesday  evening,  Feb. 
18,  was  led  by  Lillian  Doane  Gossip  and  how 
to  keep  from  gossiping  was  the  subject.  Helen 
Webster  sang. 

The  second  formal  reception  of  the  winter, 
was  held  on  Feb.  20,  when  Mr.  Thomas  A. 
Watson  spoke  on  "The  Birth  and  Babyhood 
of  the  Telephone".  Mr.  Watson  was  associat- 
ed with  Mr.  Bell  when  the  telephone  was  in- 
vented. It  was  he  who  heard  the  first  word 
over  the  simple  instrument,  constructed  by  his 
own  hands.  He  gave  us  a  very  interesting 
lecture  on  the  different  stages  in  the  early  de- 
velopment of  this  invention.  Before  his  talk, 
the  guests  went  to  the  parlors  to  meet  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Winslow  and  the  speaker.  Later  they 
were  served  refreshments  in  the  dining  room. 

The  Martha  Washington  Party,  held  in  the 
gymnasium  on  Feb.  22,  was  the  prettiest  of 
the  year.  The  girls  appeared  at  dinner  dressed 
in  old-fashioned  costumes  and  having  their 
hair  powdered.  An  orchestra  played  during 
dinner,  after  which  we  all  adjourned  to  the 
gymnasium  where  French  II  entertained  us 
with  tableaux  of  historic  scenes  and  with  the 
stately  minuet.  Miss  Beede,  dressed  in  a  quaint 
costume  of  earlier  days,  gave  an  interesting 
old-time  song.  The  members  of  the  French 
court  and  the  distinguished  Americans  then 
laid  aside  their  dignity  and  took  part  in  an 
informal  dance  which  all  enjoyed. 

On  account  of  the  illness  of  our  speaker, 
Feb.  23,  Vespers  was  held  in  the  parlors  and 
took  the  form  of  a  sing.  Miss  Packard  pre- 
sided and  later  read  us  some  very  interesting- 
missionary  stories. 

The  Christian  Endeavor  meeting,  Feb.  25, 
was  led  by  Gertrude  Trafton.  "When  Our 
Boys  Come  Back",  was  the  topic  taken  for  the 
evening.  Helpful  suggestions  as  to  how  we 
should  make  ourselves  worthy  of  the  boys 
when  they  return  were  given  by  the  leader. 

Lasell  girls  and  their  friends  were  most 
favored  on  Feb.  25,  in  hearing  the  gifted  writ- 
er, Mrs  Margaret  Deland,  give  a  talk  on  "The 
Reactions  of  War  and  of  Peace."  In  the  first 
part  of  her  address  she  dwelt  upon  the  way  in 


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which  French  women  re-acted  when  opportun- 
ities for  heroism  came  suddenly  upon  them. 
She  told  many  stirring  incidents  to  show  how 
they  met  with  quiet  strength  untold  hardships 
and  dangers.  Upon  the  women  of  this  country 
the  reactions  of  war  were,  on  the  whole,  stimu- 
lating and  at  times  even  exhilarating.  The 
reactions  of  peace  will  be  a  greater  test  of 
character.  The  abrupt  cessation  of  the  war 
has  caused  many  in  the  old  world  to  turn 
from  work  to  attempts  at  social  upheaval. 
This  is  still  a  "tottering"  world.  We  are  bound 
to  realize  this  fact  even  here,  unless  peace 
finds  us  ready  to  submit  to  the  dull  routine  of 
duty,  unless  it  teaches  us  to  "deal  justly,  love 
mercy  and  walk  humbly".  In  closing,  Mrs. 
Deland  quoted  some  impressive  lines  from 
Kipling's  Recessional. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  Feb.  26,  was  held 
the  first  school  recital  of  the  year.  A  very 
well-arranged  program  was  given ;  each  num- 
ber called  out  the  appreciation  of  the  audience. 
The  program  was  as  follows : 

PIANOFORTE.     Prelude,    C-sharp    minor 

Miss   Stewart  Rachmaninoff 

VOICE.     A    Birthday  Woodman 

Miss    Prince 
PIANOFORTE.     Romance.  La  Forge 

Miss   Hannah 

VOICE.     Mavourneen  Lang 

Shena  Van  Beach 

Miss  Freeman 

PIANOFORTE.     A.  D.  MDCXX         MacDowell 

Miss    Crawford 
VOICE.     Serenade  Gounod 

Miss    Rice 
VIOLIN.     Serenade  George    Aitken 

Miss    Brooks 
VOICE.     As   Sung  on   the  Waters  Schubert 

Miss   Chase 
PIANOFORTE.     Autumn  Chaminade 

Miss  Aguirre 
VOICE.     May    Morning  Slater 

Miss  Webster 
PIANOFORTE.     Mazurka,  Op.  33,  No.  4 

Miss   Ladd       .  Chopin 

VOICE.     Request  R.   Franz 

Gondolier    Song  Jensen 

Miss    Balcom 

PIANOFORTE.     Etude  in   E  major  Chopin 

Miss  Abbott 


VOICE.     My  Lovely  Celia  Old  English 

All  in  Vain,   Oh  my  Beloved  Lalo 

Miss   Flattery 
PIANOFORTE    DUET.     Delibes    Lack 

Coppelia 
Misses    Phillips   and    Chase 

Early  Friday  morning,  the  seventh  of  Feb- 
ruary, a  party  of  us  girls  with  our  enthusiastic 
chaperone,  Miss  Austin,  left  Lasell  for  the 
White  Mountains.  We  went  into  South  Sta- 
tion, Boston,  crossed  the  city,  left  North  Sta- 
tion about  nine  o'clock  and  arrived  at  Intervale 
at  two  o'clock.  A  large  bob-sled  was  waiting 
at  the  station — not  large  enough,  however,  for 
all, —  so  some  had  to  wait  until  the  second 
trip. 

This  sled  took  us  up  to  the  hotel  where  the 
Barneses  gave  us  a  cordial  greeting.  A  large 
log  fire,  Lasell  banners  on  the  wall,  and  a  deli- 
cious chicken  dinner  made  us  feel  we  were 
welcome.  We  were  all  so  hungry  that  we  did 
justice  to  the  good  meal.  After  dinner  we 
went  to  our  rooms  where  our  eyes  were  greet- 
ed with  light  blue  cards  having  the  words, 
"Welcome  Lasell",  written  on  them  in  white 
letters.  We  dressed  in  our  mountain  togs  and 
went  out  at  once  to  enjoy  the  various  sports 
which  were  open  for  our  pleasure. 

There  was  a  large  toboggan  slide  which 
everyone  tried  about  the  first  thing.  Over  this 
slide  was  arranged  a  chain  of  electric  lights 
of  different  colors.  At  night  the  effect  was 
very  picturesque.  There  was  also  a  well-light- 
ed skating  rink  which  several  tried,  but  for 
some  unknown  reason,  skating  was  not  so  pop- 
ular as  the  other  sports. 

On  Saturday  morning,  we  all  started  with 
our  snowshoes  for  Crawford  Notch.  We  were 
to  go  by  train  to  Crawford  and  then,  if  there 
was  enough  snow,  we  were  to  snowshoe 
through  the  Notch.  When  we  got  to  the 
Intervale  station,  some  thought  it  would  be 
useless  to  carry  snowshoes.  As  Mr.  Bassett 
rather  agreed  with  them,  they  left  theirs  there. 
When  we  arrived  at  Crawford,  Mr.  Bassett 
brought  out  a  grand  lunch,  in  which  we  show- 
Crawford  Notch,  but  after  going  a  short  dis- 
ed  a  languid  interest.    Then  we  all  set  out  for 


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tance,  those  who  had  left  their  snowshoes  at 
Intervale  had  to  go  back  to  the  railroad  and 
walk,  while  the  others  went  on.  Our  course 
for  six  miles  lay  through  this  marvelous  part 
of  the  mountains.  Here  we  took  many  pic- 
tures. Every  once  in  a  while  those  on  the 
railroad  would  call  to  us  and  we  would  answer. 
Some  were  faster  walkers  than  others,  but 
when  the  first  of  the  snowshoers  arrived  at 
the  Willey  House,  the  ones  who  had  walked 
on  the  tracks  were  there  to  meet  them.  Soon, 
we  were  all  together.  Since  we  had  to  wait 
about  three  hours  for  the  train,  we  went  into 
the  house  and  amused  ourselves  by  singing 
and  playing.  It  was  dark  when  we  got  back  to 
Intervale  and  as  usual,  everyone  was  hungry ; 
but  no  one  was  tired  enough  that  evening  to 
turn  down  the  chance  of  going  to  the  movies, 
when  it  was  suggested.  Consequently  every- 
one, after  eating  a  hearty  meal,  got  into  the 
bob-sled  and  went  to  North  Conway. 

There  the  first  picture  shown  was  that  of 
Dr.  Winslow.  This  aroused  great  applause. 
Then  followed  pictures  of  former  Lasell  girls 
enjoying  the  mountain  sports.  After  the  mov- 
ies, we  returned  to  the  hotel,  where  we  to- 
bogganed by  electric  light  until  retiring  time. 
Sunday  morning  after  breakfast  about  twen- 
ty-five of  the  girls  went  trailing.  Two  teams 
of  horses  were  hitched  to  a  rigging,  and  to  this 
were  attached  four  double-runner  sleds  and 
two  toboggans.  These  were  all  held  together 
by  a  huge  rope  to  which  everyone  had  to  hold 
fast.  If  anyone  let  go  of  the  rope,  the  whole 
toboggan  or  sled  she  was  on  would  be  lost  from 
the  group.  Then  they  would  all  have  to  get 
off,  run  after  the  others  and  get  hitched  on 
again.  It  was  no  fun,  though,  unless  we  did 
get  thrown  off  and  have  to  go  through  this 
performance.  After  the  trailers  came  back, 
we  all  went  up  into  the  wonderful  Cathedral 
Woods.  Here  the  bacon  bat  was  successfully 
managed  Everything  tasted  so  good,  too ! 
Then  we  went  back  and  those  who  had  not 
gone  trailing  in  the  morning  went  in  the  after- 
noon. 


In  the  evening  we  all  met  in  the  parlor  for 
a  brief  service  in  honor  of  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, that  genuine  lover  of  man  and  of  nature, 
whom  many  hearts  were  especially  remember- 
ing that  day.  Miss  Austin  had  arranged  ap- 
propriate readings  and  songs  and  Mr.  Bassett 
gave  some  reminiscences  of  a  meeting  with 
this  great  man. 

At  six  o'clock  the  next  morning,  everyone 
was  awakened  by  hearing  a  vigorous  knock  on 
her  door.  Soon  we  were  all  down  to  break- 
fast. Then  came  the  worst- part  of  the  whole 
trip,  the  leaving  of  the  beautiful  mountains. 
But  the  last  view  will  long  remain  in  our 
memories — Mt.  Washington  bathed  in  the  full 
glory  of  a  wonderful  sunrise. 


PERSONALS 


Margaret  Perley  entertained  her  sister  Amy 
over  the  week-end.  We  were  delighted  to  hear 
this  dear  guest  declare  that  she  hoped  later  to 
be  a  Lasell  girl.  Mildred  Patten  also  enter- 
tained her  sister  recently. 

Girls  of  1904-1910,  will  be  especially  sorry 
to  learn  of  the  bereavement  which  has  come 
to  Lela  and  Mildred  Goodall  in  the  loss  of 
their  uncle,  Ernest  Montrose  Goodall.  "The 
Sanford  Tribune"  paid  sincere  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  this  distinguished  citizen,  has  a  fine 
portrait  occupying  the  first  page  of  the  daily 
issue  and  above  the  title  of  the  paper  these 
words,  "To  live  in  the  hearts  of  those  left  is 
not  to  die."  And  the  Springvale  Daily  Ad- 
vocate paid  an  equally  fine  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  this  prominent  and  honorable  citi- 
zen. 

Mildred  Hotchkiss,  '14,  took  luncheon  at 
Lasell  recently.  Annie  Dimond,  '18,  also  spent 
one  of  her  vacation  days  (for  Annie  is  now 
a  regular  teacher)  at  Lasell.  We  were  indeed 
glad  to  see  these  two  dear  girls. 

We  congratulate  Corporal  Arthur  Edwin 
Roberts,  who  on  the  twenty-second  of  Feb- 
ruary was  married  to  our  Georgina  Fank- 
boner,  at  Marion,  Indiana.  Our  hearty  good 
wishes  are  also  extended  to  the  dear  bride. 


We  are  especially  favored  in  this  issue  in 
having  two  fine  messages  from  our  Principal 
Emeritus.  Next  to  having  him  really  on  the 
Lasell  field  are  these  characteristic  letters.  As 
several  of  the  old  girls  said  when  they  heard 
his  greeting  to  the  midwinter  reunion,  "Can't 
you  almost  see  Mr.  Bragdon  and  hear  him 
speaking".  We  only  hope  his  half  promise  to 
he  with  us  at  Commencement  will  materialize 
and  that  we  will  know  "for  sure"  as  early  as 
possible  so  as  to  send  the  word  to  all  of  his 
devoted  old  girls. 

FROM  CALIFORNIA 
This  is  mostly  a  Scott  letter!  Ina  Scott 
Bryant,  '01,  of  Amarillo,  Texas,  is  spending 
the  winter  at  the  Baker  Apartments,  845  West 
Tenth  street,  Los  Angeles.  Her  three  splendid 
children  are  with  her,  and  she  expects  Mr. 
Bryant  later. 

Helen  Scott  Dougan,  of  Richmond,  Indiana, 
is  in  Pasadena,  at  the  La  Loma  Apartments. 
She  looks  "fine"  as  the  girls  say  and  says  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hibbard  (Lestra's  pa  and  ma)  are 
coming  later. 

Harriet  G.  Scott,  '94,  writes  me  that  she  is 
going  Feb.  14,  from  'Frisco  to  Japan  and 
China,  and  so  will  not  be  at  Lasell  to  celebrate 
the  25th  anniversary  of  her  class — I  am  sur- 
prised at  Harriet  for  it  seems  to  me  no  "China 


and  Japan"  is  to  be  compared  to  a  25th  re- 
union at  Old  Lasell ! 

I  am  told  that  Kittie  Clemens,  of  Pottsville, 
Pa.,  who  ought  to  have  been  in  '03  or  '02  but 
somehow  was  switched  off  (perhaps  because- 
she  was  so  bad.  Mr.  Hills  will  appreciate 
that  use  of  "switched" — it  is  almost  as  good  as 
one  of  his  puns!)  is  about  here  but  I  don't 
know  where.  She  visited  Kate  Wheldon 
Plumb  '02,  for  a  time  in  the  fall. 

We  Bragdons  and  Barlows  are  well  as  usual. 
If  I  can  scrape  up  enough  of  the  leavings  of 
Red  Cross,  Liberty  Loans,  etc.,  I  am  now  hop- 
ing to  take  Harriet  Scott's  place  in  June  and 
I  warrant  I  can  cheer  as  wildly  as  she  could, 
tho'  I  don't  know  as  I  could  equal  those  other 
boisterous  members,  Virginia  Wyckoff,  Mil- 
dred Warren  or  May  Tulleys ! 

Meanwhile  my  love  to  all  my  old  "girls"' — 
Bless  them ! 

How  many  subscribers  has  The  Leaves? 

C.  C.  B. 


Next  in  importance  to  the  message  from  Dr. 
Bragdon  comes  the  announcement  of  the  mar- 
riage of  one  of  his  girls.  On  the  fifth  of  Feb- 
ruary our  dear  Lena  Vee  Kelley,  '14,  became 
the  wife  of  Mr.  Fred  Almon  Stone.  The  wed- 
ding was  celebrated  in  Washington  but  Mr. 
and  Mrs.   Stone's  future  home  will  be  7130 


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Ridgeland  avenue,  Chicago,  Illinois.  As  this 
is  the  only  marriage  which  we  are  announcing 
Lena  Vee  and  her  husband  will  receive  a  most 
generous  share  of  our  congratulations. 

A  very  unique  announcement  party  occurred 
in  Canton,  Ohio,  when  Marguerite  Vicary  en- 
tertained in  her  sister's  honor  and  at  this  after- 
noon party  announced  the  engagement  of 
Grace  L.  Vicary,  '07,  to  Professor  J.  L.  G. 
Pottorf.  Professor  Pottorf  is  a  graduate  of 
Cook  Academy,  Montour  Falls,  N.  Y.,  and 
Columbia  University.  Announcement  of  the 
engagement  was  made  during  the  serving  of 
lunch.  With  the  coffee  was  served  a  "Hoover 
sugar  envelope''  containing  a  card  decorated 
with  silver  bells  and  pink  roses  in  the  form  of 
a  heart.  On  the  card  was  written  in  gold 
''Early  Summer"  and  the  name  of  Miss  Vicary. 
Gilt  letters  were  also  contained  in  the  envelope 
which  when  put  together  spelled  the  name  of 
the  groom-elect.  Small  imported  candle  sticks 
in  shades  of  pink  and  blue  were  used  as  favors. 
One  of  the  most  original  and  timely  features 
of  this  afternoon  was  this — the  guests  spent 
the  hours  in  sewing  on  Belgian  refugee  gar- 
ments. This  was  particularly  appropriate  as 
Grace  has  been  very  actively  connected  with 
the  chapter  of  the  American  Red  Cross  in  her 
home  town. 

We  have  the  pleasure  also  to  announce  the 
engagement  of  Wilda  Irene  Berkey  and  Mr. 
John  Homer  Emrick. 

Jessie  Shepherd,  '17,  is  at  present  at  Miami, 
Florida,  and  from  this  interesting  southern  re- 
sort she  sends  a  charming  card  and  also  word 
that  she  has  seen  Bernice  Reagan,  '17,  and  her 
family  and  Carita  Palmer  who  are  in  Florida 
for  the  Winter. 

Irene  Norman  could  not  attend  the  mid-win- 
ter reunion  hecause  she  was  still  in  service 
overseas.  We  hope  soon  to  know  more  defin- 
itely about  her  line  of  work. 

Word  has  come  recently  from  Jean.Youtz, 
from  Oberlin,  Ohio.  It  was  just  a  cordial 
greeting  to  our  preceptress.  Jean,  we  wish 
you  had  really  told  us  more  about  yourself. 

In  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  the  Lasell 


Baby  Book,  by  Ruby  Newcomb  McCorkindale, 
'14,  sends  a  gracious  greeting  to  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Winslow.  She  writes,  "I  just  wish  you  could 
see  our  baby.  She  is  as  sweet  as  can  be  and  as 
good  as  gold.  I  am  hoping  that  before  many 
years  she  can  visit  Lasell  and  meet  some  of  our 
other  class  babies.''  We  are  not  surprised  to 
hear  this  good  report  of  Ruby's  daughter  and 
we  certainly  hope  that  her  wishes  will  come 
true  and  baby  Ruth  will  soon  be  on  our  visit- 
ing list.  Ruby  has  a  good  word  to  say  about 
the  Lasell  Leaves  and  rejoices  over  the  success 
of  our  school  for  younger  girls.  Her  husband 
is  lieutenant  in  the  civil  engineering  depart- 
ment of  the  navy  and  is  stationed  on  an  island 
near  Vallejo,  California,  but  there  is  some  talk 
of  his  being  transferred  to  New  England.  All 
the  kind  wishes  with  which  Ruby's  message 
closes  are  warmly  reciprocated  . 

Marjorie  Beeler  has  evidently  kept  a  warm 
place  in  her  heart  for  Lasell  as  she  proves  in 
a  recent  message  to  Dr.  Winslow.  She  has  not 
been  idle  during  the  silent  years,  has  kept  up 
her  music  and  in  touch  with  a  number  of  the 
old  girls.  She  describes  an  interesting  musical 
event  which  was  about  to  take  place  in  her 
home  town  and  of  which  she  was  the  "chorus 
master".  Among  other  bits  of  news  she  tells 
us  that  Kathryne  Nitzigman,  who  married 
Karl  Peterson,  of  Auburndale,  is  now  living  in 
Chicago,  at  7736  North  Paulina  street,  and  is 
the  proud  mother  of  a  dear  baby  boy  born 
January  4. 

It  made  us  both  happy  and  proud  to  read 
her  father's  repeated  declaration  that  "he  had 
never  regretted  choosing  Lasell  as  her  school 
home''. 

We  are  sorry  to  learn  through  Marjorie  of 
the  recent  death  of  Alice  Hathaway,  of  Fall 
River. 

Her  former  roommate,  Florence  Bell  Claw- 
son,  who  has  been  living  in  Indiana  has  moved 
back  to  her  parent's  home  town,  Robinson, 
Illinois,  and  through  Florence  Marjorie  learns 
that  Ida  Merrill  has  a  young  daughter  and  that 
Marion  Gibbons  is  wintering  in  California. 

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the  Chicago  Lasell  Club  which  she  anticipates 
joining  and  also  would  like  to  subscribe  for 
the  Leaves.  The  Leaves  in  turn  are  grateful 
for  the  words  of  appreciation  from  this  old 
girl  and  glad  through  her  to  receive  so  many 
interesting  personals. 

From  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Marbold  Wernsing,  at 
Lasell  in  'jg-'&o,  comes  a  friendly  word  of  in- 
quiry. We  are  sorry  to  learn  through  this 
message  that  Anna  has  recently  lost  her  hus- 
band. Although  she  is  not  sure  that  she  has 
an  acquaintance  still  at  Lasell  she  sends  her 
yearly  subscription  to  the  Leaves  and  also  asks 
for  a  Lasell  pin.  Our  preceptress  who  remem- 
bers Anna  very  distinct!}'  and  pleasantly  ans- 
wers that  the  S.  D.  society  disbanded  many 
years  ago  and  for  some  time  Lasell  has  not 
supported  any  secret  society.  We  are  certain- 
ly pleased  to  hear  from  this  loyal  old  girl  and 
hope  that  some  day  she  will  come  back  home 
and  see  the  few  friends  who  are  still  at  Lasell. 

Isabel  Fish  recently  had  a  call  from  her  sis- 
ter Josephine,  a  former  Lasell  student.  She 
just  stopped  for  an  hour  on  her  way  to  Florida 
where  she  is  spending  the  winter. 

Virginia  Quarles  was  made  very  happy  re- 
cently by  a  visit  from  her  father  and  mother. 
We  hope  that  they  will  be  with  us  again  at 
Commencement  time. 

Helen  Balcom  too  has  been  favored  with  a 
visit  from  her  parents  and  the  Lasell  girls  will 
not  forget  soon  the  musical  treat  which  was 
furnished  by  Helen's  father. 

Sue  Davidson  is  another  Lasell  girl  who  has 
been  made  happy  recently  by  a  visit  from  her 
father.  We  wish  we  could  have  entertained 
these  parents  longer  and  Lasell  will  lie  glad 
to  see  them  often. 

Lydia  Adams,  '18  and  Octavia  Hickox.'iS, 
certainly  did  furnish  their  friends  at  Lasell 
with  a' genuine  surprise  party.  They  made  all 
their  arrangements  quietly  and  suddenly  ap- 
peared at  Lasell  for  a  week-end  visit.  Never 
were  guests  more  welcome.  Our  regret  was 
that  sickness  in  Lydia's  family  compelled  them 
to  shorten  their  stay. 


Rosalie  Louis's  father  came  all  the  way  from 
Illinois  to  see  her  and  we  wish  Lasell  could 
have  shown  him  some  attention  for  Mr.  Louis 
has  a  double  claim  on  our  school  being  the 
father  of  our  former  school-mate  and  gradu- 
ate, Helen,  '17. 

Mildred  Cary,  '18,  and  Helen  Maggi,  '18, 
dropped  in  for  a  very  few  minutes  Washing- 
ton's Birthday.  According  to  their  reports  and 
from  what  we  hear  outside  they  are  both  hard 
at  work  and  happy. 

Lillian  Fontaine  is  rejoicing  over  the  recent 
visit  of  her  brother  who  has  just  been  released 
from  service  and  reentered  Boston  University. 

Miss  Dolley  is  forging  ahead,  carrying  a 
heavy  program  as  her  friends  will  see  and  yet 
keeping  very  well  and  happy.  Her  outline  is 
something  like  this — two  technical  courses,  two 
courses  in  chemistry,  social  science,  biology, 
philosophy  of  education  and  typical  forms  of 
literature  and  in  addition  seems  to  be  taking  in 
every  worth  while  event  for  which  New  York 
is  so  famous.  She  recently  poured  at  the 
Dean's  tea  where  there  were  some  five  hundred 
guests.  She  tells  us  that  she  met  Elba  Forbes 
recently  who  is  now  Superintendent  of  Play- 
grounds in  Dallas,  Texas,  and  expects  to  direct 
the  recreation  centers  for  adults  which  is  about 
to  be  incorporated  in  the  school  system. 

From  her  temporary  California  home,  Dor- 
othy Barnes,  '18,  sends  a  delightful  letter  to 
our  Preceptress.  "During  the  past  few  weeks" 
she  writes,  "Margaret  Mclntyre,  '18,  has  been 
visiting  me.  While  she  was  here  we  had 
several  outings  with  Amy  Phillips,  '18,  and 
Marion  Lord.  Barbara  McLellan,  '18,  is  also 
in  the  city  and  growing  very  fond  of  Califor- 
nia and  who  can  blame  her?"  Dorothy  hopes 
to  remain  long  enough  to  attend  the  Lasell  re- 
union which  occurs  just  about  this  time.  She 
congratulates  Phyllis  Rowe  on  her  success  as 
an  assistant  instructress  and  tells  us  that  Amy 
Phillips  is  doing  finely  in  her  new  work,  teleg- 
raphy, and  in  every  way  is  making  good. 

Hazel  jBrady  and  Flavia  Folsom  have  been 
favored  by  visits  from  their  mothers. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


JOKES 


MY   ROOM. 

My    room    contains    a    rug 

That  is  red! 

Bright   Red! 

I've    done    my    best    with    ink 

And    shoe    polish 

And   even   food, 

But  the  rug  remains 

Red! 

And   my   roommate   likes   green. 

So  the   covers  and  the  -curtains   are 

Green! 

And  when   my   friends   come   in 

They   smile   and   say 

"Merry   Christmas!" 

And  then  they  look  at  the  boudoir  caps 

And  the  pink  pillows  that  I 

Brought   from    home, 

And  they  laugh  and  say, 

"Happy  New  Year!" 

But   that's   not   all! 

They    look  at   the   posters 

And  the  photographs 

And  the  sketches  of  my  brother 

And  my  roommate's  pictures 

Of  "Life"  and  "Love" 

And   "September   Morn" 

And   they   say,   "Great    Scott!" 

And  then   they   depart. 

Now  what   would  you   do, 

If   your   room   were    like 

Mine? 


A   strapping   youth   stood   on    the    dock 

In   a  uniform   of  blue. 
A  maiden  stood  beside  him — 

Her  hair   of  brownish   hue.    " 

He   was  a  bold,   brave   sailor — 

As    sailors    always    are, 
And   she    was   his   darling  sweetheart, 

He   loved   her   best  by   far. 

Now  our  sailor  boy  was  leaving 

For  a  land  he'd  never  seen, 
Where   he'd  live  on  nothing  but  hard  tack 

And  the  good  old  Navy  bean. 

The  whistle  blew  it's  warning 

And    he    kissed    his    girl    goodbye. 

Then   turned   around   just    long   enough 
To    brush    the    tear-drop    from   his    eye. 

Alas,   the    boat   was   leaving   dock, 

The    girl    grew    paler,    paler, 
Then  she  walked  slowly  up  the  street 

And   found   another   sailor! 


— R.   O. 


Oh,  fool  I  was  to  loan  it 
To  the  girl  who  sat  in  front! 

I   said  it  didn't  write  well — 

She    could    see    that    it    was    blunt; 

And   when    1    saw   her   lick   it, 

I   mentally  went   lame; 
For  I   have  a  constant  habit 

Of    doing   just    the    same. 


It's  not  the  people  who  joggle  your  arms, 
Nor  the  ones  who  read  your  papers, 

Nor    the    ones   who   think   the   middle   of   class 
The  best  time  to  cut  funny  capers, 

It's  not  the  ones  who  run  out  of  ink, 

For  these  pests  cannot  compare 
With  the  ones  who  say:  "We're  sorry,  but — 

We're   trying  to   save   this   chair!" 


Nurse :    "So    you    are    not    feeling 
Where  do  you  feel  the  worst?" 
Girl:  "In  class!" 


well  ? 


New  rule  for  fastening  thread :  "Push  the 
needle  through  the  cloth,  and  hold  it  with 
your  thumb." 


It  served  me  in  all  quizzes 

And  in  writtens  that  were  sprung. 

And  I  credit  to  that  pencil 
All  the  A's   that  I   have  won. 

Do   you   wonder   that   I   mourn? 

Do  you  wonder  I  feel  blue? 
As   I   vainly  scan  my  classmates 

For  the   girl   I   loaned  it  to? 
OH,  GIVE  ME  BACK    MY  PENCIL! 

— "The  Campus  Cat.' 


In  Latin :  "Give  the  meaning  of  'sic  tran- 
sit." 

Pupil :  "An  ambulance." 


Phil :  "Did  Carlyle  write  something  about 
worship?" 


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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND   FORMER  STUDENTS 

"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

REUNION   NUMBER  ' 

All  articles  or   "bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor - 

Lillian  M.   Packard 


IMPORTANT 

On  account  of  the  enforced  vacation  last 
fall,  due  to  the  epidemic,  the  Commence- 
ment dates  have  been  changed. 

Baccalaureate  Sunday June  Fifteenth 

Class  Night June  Sixteenth 

Commencement  Day June  Seventeenth 

It  is  time  you  were  making  definite  arrange- 
ments for  the  class  reunions.  This  is  the  first 
opportunity  some  of  you  have  ever  had  to  see 
Lasell  and  Auburndale  in  the  middle  of  June. 


LIFE  MEMBERS 


A  list  of  the  Life  Members  of  the  Lasell 
Alumnae  Association  will  be  printed  in  the 
next  Supplement.  Twenty-five  dollars  will 
make  you  eligible  and  will  excuse  you  from  any 
further  annual  dues.  It  is  worth  thinking 
about. 


THE  LASELL  CLUB  OF  NEW  YORK 


The  Annual  Meeting  and  Luncheon  was  held 
on  Saturday,  January  twenty-fifth  at  Hotel 
Plaza.  Fifty-four  covers  were  laid,  showing 
the  largest  attendance  in  the  history  of  the 
club.  The  table  decorations  were  the  American 
flags  and  those  of  our  Allies,  the  latter  being 
individual  souvenirs.  As  Dr.  Winslow  did  not 
find  it  feasible  to  be  away  from  the  seminary 
at  this  time  Miss  Packard  was  the  guest  of 


the  club  and  was  the  messenger  to  bring  us 
the  latest  Lasell  news.  We  were  much  inter- 
ested in  the  bright  prospects  of  the  new  Wood- 
land Park  School. 

It  is  requested  that  all  who  can  be  present 
on  the  last  Saturday  in  January  1920  send  in 
early  replies  to  the  secretary.  Visitors  to  New 
York  are  welcome  so  plan  to  be  in  the  city  on 
that  date. 

Those  present  were : 

Mercy  Sinsabaugh  Ingalls 

Frances    Barbour   Sonntag 

Lillian  Packard 

Frances  Dolley 

Susan    Hallock    Couch 

Hazel  Brady 

Gladys   Stults 

Cornelia    Gaty 

Dorothy  Payne  Whiteway 

Louise   Morrell 

Mary   Bigelow   Green 

Elizabeth    Harwood    Fones 

Genevra    Strong 

Mrs.  Arthur   Chambers 

Lina   Jones    Bourne 

Grace    Garland    Etherington 

Ada  Marsh 

Natalie  York 

A'farguerite   York 

Mrs.  T.   A.   Wilhon 

Juliette   Beach  Barker 

Helen   Smith 

Julia  ter  Kuile 

Julia   Lipps 

Mildred   Carey 

Mabel  Loverin 

Birdie  Lipschuetz 


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Fannie   M.   Gates 

Julia  DeWitt   Read 

Harriet    Frey 

Marian   Beach 

Eleanor   McCarty 

Anita  Hotchkiss 

Alice  Fuller 

Jennie  Raymond   Geyer 

Charlotte    Swartwont 

Eula   Lee  Merrill 

Hannah   Proctor  Bonner 

Mary  White 

Helen   Stephan 

Frances   Wood   Willis 

Meta  Buehner  Noble 

Florence   Bell 

Maye   Palmer  Jago 

Louise   Morrell 

Bertha   Meissner  Wendell 

Ada  Wood   Peterson 

Annie  Gwinnell 

Florence    Rankin    Montgomery 

Winnifred    Adams    Hamilton 

Grace    Huntington 

Mabel  Bliss  Tibbetts 

Eleanor   McCausland 

Eva  Ferris  Foote 

Lillian  Laffey 


NEW  YORK  CLUB  GOSSIP 


A  few  notes  from  Miss  Packard's  note  book 
garnered  at  the  New  York  luncheon. 

Mrs  Mercie  Sinsabaugh  Ingalls,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  club,  presided  and  was,  ably  assisted 
by  the  secretary  Mrs.  Frances  Barbour  Sonn- 
tag,  both  of  whom  had  done  valiant  prepar- 
atory work  which  bore  fruit  in  the  increased 
numbers  and  enthusiasm.  Miss  Dolley,  who  is 
studying  at  Columbia  University  this  year,  was 
present  for  a  short  time  after  a  strenuous  day- 
of  mid-year  examinations.  ' 

Frances  Wright  has  graduated  from  the 
Worcester  Art  School,  specializing  in  silver- 
smithing  and  jewelry.  She  is  expecting  to 
have  a  studio  in  the  fall  and  mentions  wedding 
rings  as  a  specialty. 

Julia  ter  Kuile  is  very  enthusiastic  oyer  her 
work  among  the  homes  of  the  soldiers  in  New 
York  City.  She  was  much  in  earnest  when 
she  asked  if  there  were  not  a  number  of  our 
girls  living  in  the  vicinity  who  would  become 


volunteer  workers  as  many  days  in  the  week 
as  they  could  give.  She  said  she  could  use  as 
many  as  five  hundred.  Names  may  be  sent  to 
her. 

Charlotte  Swartwout  told  of  the  little  one 
who  had  recently  come  to  her  sister  Florence's 
home. 

The  class  of  '89  and  their  friends  in  near-by 
classes  made  a  good-sized  group  and  in  their 
usual  loyal  fashion  they  were  making  very 
definite  plans  for  their  thirtieth  reunion  -in 
June,  at  Lasell. 

Miss  Packard  enjoyed  thoroughly  the  hos- 
pitality of  Gladys  Stultz  and  Annie  Gwinnell, 
the  hours  spent  in  their  homes  are  delightful 
memories.  Both  are  interested  in  community 
life  in  a  practical  way.  Annie  has  done  a  splen- 
did work  as  state  secretary  of  the  Girls'  Patri- 
otic League. 


THE  NEW  ENGLAND  LUNCHEON 


Unlike  the  other  annual  Lasell  Luncheons 
held  in  various  parts  of  the  country  the  New 
England  "Home  Gathering''  is  not  held  under 
the  auspices  of  a  local  Lasell  Club  but  is  ar- 
ranged by  a  mid-winter  committee  appointed 
by  the  Lasell  Alumnae  Association  at  its  June 
meeting.  For  a  number  of  years  Dr.  Winslow 
has  offered  the  hospitality  of  the  seminary  for 
this  reunion  and  the  only  expense  to  the  for- 
mer students  has  been  a  small  assessment  for 
incidental  expenses. 

A  pleasant  day,  February  tenth,  called  to- 
gether a  goodly  company  who  were  received 
in  the  parlors  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  AVinslow,  Miss 
Potter  and  Mrs.  Josephine  Woodward  Rand, 
president  of  the  Association.  After  this  for- 
mality was  over  friends  flocked  together  and 
a  number  flew  upstairs  to  get  a  glimpse  of 
their  old  rooms  which  were  in  apple-pie  order 
for  expected  and  hoped-for  guests.  At  1  130 
lunch  was  served  in  the  dining  room,  the  glee 
club  singing  grace.  After  the  first  three  courses 
of  the  substantial  menu  President  Rand  pre- 
sented in  well  chosen  words  Dr.  Winslow  who 
welcomed  the  girls  with  his  usual  cordiality- 


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Miss  Potter  and  Miss  Packard  added  a  bit  of 
gossip  and  good  advice,  and  a  good  letter  from 
Dr.  Bragdon,  printed  elsewhere  in  the  Supple- 
ment, was  read. 

Then  the  new  feature  of  the  day  came  in 
the  surprising  announcement  that  this  was  a 
progressive  affair  and  that  the  ice  cream  and 
coffee  would  be  served  at  the  new  Woodland 
Park  School  which  had  been  in  its  new  quar- 
ters at  the  former  Woodland  Park  Hotel 
scarcely  a  month.  We  then  emigrated,  some 
on  foot  and  some  in  automobiles  and  were 
delighted  at  the  opportunity  of  seeing  Lasell's 
"newest  departure."  The  children  of  the 
school,  about  thirty  in  all,  were  in  their  sun 
school  room  and  later  sang  for  us  their  school 
songs. 

Although  there  still  remain  many  things  to 
be  done,  so  Dr.  Winslow  said,  the  surroundings 
were  very  attractive  and  the  rooms  admirably 
fitted  for  the  purpose  intended.  What  is  even 
more  to  the  point  the  children  seemed  very 
happy  and  contented. 

Did  you  register?    If  so  your  names  appear 
in  the  following  list. 
Josephine  Woodward  Rand 
Mildred    M.    Hayden 
Rose   Taylor 
Rena  Goodwin  White 
Marion  Joslyn   Young 
Josephine     Chandler    Pierce 
Lillie   Fuller  Merriam 
Frances  Thomas  Fiske 
Mary    Fiske 
Ruth    Coulter    Bierer 
Elsie   Dolman 
Edna   Beaver 
Nellie   M.    Richards 
Ruth    Thacher    Brown 
Dorothy   Hadley 
Frances  Wright 
Clementina  Butler 
Beulah    Coward   Bresee 
Mary   King 

Hattic    Grecnleaf   Smith 
Lillian    M.    Packard 
Katherine    Dearborn 
Helen    Gerrett 
Olive  Bates  Dumas 
Florence    Bell 
Julia   Crafts 


Mabel    Straker   Kimball 

Ruth   Trowbridge    Brown 

Mary   Fenno 

Grace   Douglas  Murray 

Marietta   Rose   Green 

Marjorie    Watkins 

Mary   Wales    Smith 

Norine    B.    Dillingham 

Carrie    Manning    Dexter 

Bess   Linn  Manness 

Ida   Beane   Rice 

Jennie   Darling  Folsom 

Jessie  J.  MacMillan 

Edith  Burke  Wells  ' 

Mildred   A.    Williams 

Mary  Ransom  Wagner 

Martha   E.  Ransom 

Edith   Totten   Davis 

Lucy   Dudley    Merrill 

Georgie   Duncan   Seavey 

Bessie    Fuller   Perry 

Sibyl  H.   Spaulding 

Nellie  Packard  Draper. 

Mary  Walworth 

Blanche   Hofman 

Dr.    and   Mrs.   Winslow 

Miss    Potter 

Prof.   Hills 

Miss   Rand 

Mile.    LeRoyer 

Miss  Witherbee 

Senora   Orozeo 

Miss    Heinrich 

Miss  Mullikin 

Miss  True 

Miss  Tuttle 

Miss  Shank 

Miss   Wright 

Mrs.    Smith 

Miss    Saunders 

Mrs.    Martin 

Miss   Genn 

Mrs.  Hilbourne 

Mrs.    Hooker 

Miss    Hutchins 

Miss   Strang 

Miss   Meserve 


NEW  ENGLAND   NOTES 


From  the  replies  to  the  invitations  and  from 
bits  of  conversation  we  learned  a  few  things, 
some  of  them  are  here. 

Mildred  Manter  is  spending  the  winter  in 
Memphis,  Tennessee. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Miss  Roop  writes  that  she  is  teaching  in 
Hampton  Institute  and  finds  it  most  interesting 
work.  She  met  Miss  Collins  one  day.  Miss 
Collins  is  having  a  successful  first  year  in  her 
own  school  "Pembroke  Hall". 

Nellie  Chandler  was  unable  to  attend  on  ac- 
count of  the  recent  and  sudden  death  of  her 
sister. 

Mrs.  Emma  Sears  May,  '57,  writes  a  clear 
note  in  which  she  speaks  of  the  death  of  her 
husband  after  fifty-four  years  of  affectionate 
companionship.  She  also  expresses  her  thanks 
and  appreciation  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  for 
their  constant  courtesy  through  the  years  and 
expresses  her  best  wishes  for  the  continued 
prosperity  of  the  seminary  "for  which  I  have 
so  much  affection". 

Wilda  Berkey  recalls  "the  good  times  we  all 
had  together"  and  regrets  that  she  could  not 
come  as  she  had  planned. 

Dorothy  Smith  was  kept  away  by  a  little 
Home  Kindergarten  in  which  she  is  teaching 
this  year. 

Sadie  Peckham  was  giving  her  time  the  week 
of  the  reunion  to  a  campaign  for  the  Relief  of 
the  Near  East,  so  could  not  get  away. 

Mrs.  Jane  Ford  Amesbury  writes  that  the 
care  of  "my  new  daughter"  keeps  her  closely 
at  home  at  present. 

Etta  Handy  is  no  longer  in  her  New  England 
home  but  an  instructor  in  Institutional  Man- 
agement in  the  State  College  at  Pullman, 
Washington. 

.  Isabelle  Ventrone  is  attending  Pratt  Insti- 
tute this  year. 

Miss  Chamberlayne  declines  with  profound 
regret.  "May  I  offer  my  salutations  and  re- 
membrances to  all  the  old  friends". 

Orissa  Atwill  is  teaching  in  Lancaster,  Mass. 

Alice  jBallard  is  just  recovering  from  pneu- 
monia. She  says  she  keeps  in  touch  with 
Lasell  because  she  takes  the  Leaves. 

Helen  Scott  has  recently  gone  overseas  un- 
der the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Entertainment  Commit- 
tee. 

Evelyn  Hauser's  invitation  was  forwarded 


to  Los  Angeles,  California.  "I  came  out  here 
after  the  signing  of  the  armistice  prevented 
my  going  overseas  in  Red  Cross  service.  I  was 
prepared  even  to  my  passport  to  go  over  with 
the  next  unit.  I  came  to  help  cheer  my  mother 
as  my  brother  died  in  France." 


DR.  BRAGDON'S  LETTER 

My  dear  distant  "Girls"  : 

I  learn  from  Hattie  Scott  (Harriet,  I  notice 
it  is  now !  Same  out  here.  Bess  Lum  is 
Elizabeth.  Jen  Johnson  is  Virginia  and  so  on) 
that  you  intend  to  get  together  on  Feb.  10, 
and  that  you'd  like  a  word  from  me. 

That  is  kind  of  you — to  give  your  old  Prin- 
cipal a  chance  for  you  well  remember  the  sighs 
of — resignation  let  us  call  it,  and  save  the  lan- 
guage— with  which  you  used  to  greet  his  at- 
tempts to  talk  in  chapel.  Of  course,  once  or 
twice  a  year  is  easier  than  once  a  day.  Then, 
too,  I  suspect  that  several  of  you  have  by  this 
time  found  out  what  a  luxury  it  is  to  get  a 
chance  to  talk  without  his  talking  back. 

Do  you  know,  if  I  were  sitting  at  the  chapel 
desk  now,  looking  sternly  around  to  quell  the 
rising  insubordinations,  my  eyes  would  be 
softer  and  my  voice  gentler  than  they  were  30 
or  40  years  ago — for  I  would  now  realize 
better  than  I  then  did  how  surely  and  how 
quickly  your  dancing  feet  would  slow  down 
to  the  "Right"!  "Left"!,  of  the  march  of  life, 
how  bravely  your  hands  would  take  up  the 
musket  or  the  sword  in  the  Great  Battle  and  I 
would  yearn  to  help  you  get  ready,  I  would 
long  to  get  into  your  hearts,  not  your  minds 
only,  an  ambition  to  be  not  wise  only  or  witty 
only  or  charming  only,  tho'  all  these  are  good, 
but  to  be  strong.  I  would  want  to  make  you 
see  that  every  -experience  is  good  that  strength- 
ens, that  none  is  good  however  pleasant,  that 
weakens ! 

But  there!  listen  to  me  going  on  !  I  am  not 
in  the  chapel  chair  and  you  are  proving  in 
your  own  experiences  bravely  met  and  bravely 
borne  all  that  I  would  say. 

And  your   old   Principal   is  proud  of  you, 


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glad  to  have  had  a  hand  in  your  training  and 
glad  of  your  continued  friendship  and  glad  of 
your  success  in  your/chosen  fields  and  glad  of 
your  loyalty  to  Lasell. 

If  I  can  I  am  coming  to  Commencement 
next  June  and  hope  to  see  many  of  you.  For 
that  will  doubtless  be  my  last  visit  to  the  spot 
to  which  I  gave  the  best  of  my  life  and  to 
which  I  still  give  the  most  of  my  thoughts. 

My  little  wife  is  pretty  well.  I  want  you  all 
to  know  that  in  whatever  success  attended  our 
efforts  to  make  Lasell  a  school  where  girls 
might  get  the  best  possible  training  for  their 
special  needs  in  life  she  was  the  chief  factor. 
She  suggested  and  advised  as  few  women  were 
able  to  do.  She  is  naturally  so  modest  and 
retiring  that  many  of  you  would  not  know 
this  unless  I  told  you  Then  what  I  owe  to 
that  Queen  among  women,  Miss  C.  J.  Cham- 
berlayne,  to  that  wise  counsellor,  Mrs.  H.  N. 
Noyes,  to  that  peerless  Prime  Minister,  Caro- 
line A.  Carpenter,  who  was  as  Aaron  to  Moses, 
I  can  never  tell.  And  Miss  Nutt,  the  sweet 
saint — but  of  many  others  whose  modesty  must 
be  spared  because  they  are  still  with  us  I  can 
only  say  that  they  are  part  of  the  making  of 
Lasell,  and  to  have  helped  make  Lasell  what 
she  has  been  to  many  and  still  is,  is  glory 
enough  for  any  life. 

God  bless  you  all !     Amen  ! 

C.  C.  Braydon. 


IN  MEDIAS  RES 


Through  the  kindness  of  Julia  DeWitt  Read 
we  have  before  us  an  attractive  group  of  print- 
ed letters  with  a  picture  of  the  writer  on  the 
front  sheet  who  is  none  other  than  our  Helen 
Richards  She  has  on  the  uniform  of  the 
Motor  Corps  in  which  she  served  before 
she  went  overseas.  These  were  printed  for  the 
benefit  of  her  immediate  circle  of  friends  of 
which  we  are  glad  to  be  a  part.  The  letters 
were  written  in  the  early  part  of  last  fall.  She 
was  connected  with  one  of  the  largest  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  huts  in  France. 


We  quote  only  a  few  paragraphs  from  the 
letters.  "August  30.  Well,  here  I  am  in  this 
beautiful  place.  The  town  itself  is  not  beau- 
tiful but  the  country  round  about  is  lovely. 
We  are  very  high  above  the  valley  of  the 
Marne. 

"Mrs.  W.  as  going  out  to  the  country  where 
no  women  work.  She  asked  me  to  go  and  I 
was  so  glad  I  did.  A  'Y'  Ford  took  us  out 
there  along  a  white  road  that  leads  to  the  front. 
It  was  a  company  of  engineers  that  had  been 
turned  into  a  gas  regiment.  They  were  leaving 
for  the  front  the  next  da}'.  We  sold  things 
and  then  went  out  into  the  fields  and  played 
ball.  One  fellow  came  to  me  and  said,  'Don't 
tell  the  other  fellows,  but  I'm  awful  homesick 
tonight..' 

"Sept.  9.  Miss  P.  gave  a  picnic  for  four 
men  from  the  gas  regiment.  Two  of  them 
were  cooks  but  such  nice  men  and  they  did 
have  such  a  good  time.  Coming  home  a  sol- 
dier picked  us  up  and  insisted  on  walking  home 
with  us.  He  was  an  old  man  and  when  we 
got  home  we  discovered  he  was  a  general. 
Some  jump  from  cooks  to  Generals." 

"September  16.  Mrs.  W.  and  I  went  to  the 
station  to  see  them  bring  in  the  wounded  from 
this  new  drive.  The  doctor  let  us  go  right- 
through  the  train  before  they  unloaded  and  we 
brought  cigarettes  to  them.  I  can't  describe 
it — it  was  so  new  and  horrible  to  me.  But 
I'll  never  forget  it.  We  took  addresses  from 
lots  of  them  and  have  been  writing  their  moth- 
ers and  sweethearts  ever  since.  Just  let  me 
say  that  their  spirit  is  wonderful.  My,  but  it 
was  an  experience.  Sunday  I  played  for  a 
service  and  succeeded  in  ruining  several  good 
hymns.  The  things  one  will  do  over  here  that 
one  never  did  before." 

"October  21.  I  congratulate  myself  every- 
day that  I  came  over.  I  never  worked  so  hard 
as  yesterday  but,  oh,  it  was  worth  while.  On 
account  of  the  'Spanish  Flu'  we  were  not  al- 
lowed to  hold  any  entertainments  or  meetings. 
Therefore  the  canteen  is  open  from  eight  in 
the  morning  until  nine  at  night. 


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"Sunday  is  always  a  busy  day  but  yesterday 
we  had  four  bunches  of  men  just  dismissed 
from  the  hospitals  who  had  been  sleeping  in 
the  hut.  None  of  them  had  any  money  so  we 
gave  them  chocolate,  cakes  and  sandwiches. 
A  crowd  of  boys  from  very  near  home  came 
about  six.  At  six  o'clock  our  wonderful  Ma- 
rines marched  to  the  station  accompanied  by 
the  band.  It  was  a  fearfully  impressive  sight. 
They  were  all  equipped  for  the  front  and  the 
moon  shone  down  on  them  as  they  marched 
through  these  narrow  streets.  I  went  down  the 
line  and  shook  hands  with  every  one." 

Note. — Since  writing  these  letters  Helen  has 
been  at  the  front  in  service. 


DAILY   VACATION   BIBLE   SCHOOLS 


We  had  the  pleasure  of  entertaining  at  din- 
ner one  evening  this  winter  Miss  Hersey,  of 
Mount  Holyoke,  class  of  '19,  and  Sybil  Spaul- 
ding,  one  of  our  own  girls.  They  came  in  the 
interest  of  the  Association  of  Daily  Vacation 
Bible  Schools.  Both  have  personally  conduc- 
ted these  summer  schools  and  know  how  much 
comfort  and  help  they  give.  These  are-  being 
taken  into  the  circle  of  school  and  college  phi- 
lanthropies. Not  only  is  financial  help  being 
asked  but  volunteer  workers  are  much  desired 
as  teachers  and  assistants.  This  is  a  splendid 
opportunity  to  do>  good  and  at  the  same  time 
to  gain  an  experience  in  teaching.  One  group, 
a  part  of  a  community  school,  was  taught  by 
Sybil  last  summer. 


LETTER  FROM  MEXICO 


" — I  am  enjoying  my  work  here  in  Mexico 
very  much.  Before  I  came  down,  I  took  a  six- 
weeks'  teachers'  course  at  Columbia,  and  now 
I  am  teaching  the  second,  third  and  fourth 
grades.  Some  of  the  modern  methods  of 
teaching  little  folks  are  very  interesting;  Most 
of  my  children  are  Mexican,  but  I  am  in  the 
English  department  and  they  always  speak 
English  to  me.     When  they  start  in  the  first 


ONE   OF    FLORENCE   HARPER  S   BOARDING 
GROUPS   IN    MEXICO 


grade,  most  of  them  can't  speak  a  word  of 
English,  but  they  take  up  the  language  very 
easily  as  they  are  so  young.  It  is  a  wonderful 
thing  for  them,  they  study  all  their  lessons  in 
English,  and  really  make  two  languages  their 
own. 

"The  Mexican  people,  in  many  ways,  are 
very  different  from  the  Americans.  Our  peo- 
ple could  help  Mexico  very  much  if  they  only 
realized  how  much  their  help  is  needed  here. 
The  poverty,  filth  and  ignorance  is  terrible. 
Just  a  few  doors  from  this  school,  there  are 
four  little  boys  and  a  dog  who  sleep  on  a 
door  step  every  night,  huddled  together  in 
order  to  keep  warm.  They  eat  whatever  they 
can  manage  to  beg  or  steal.  I  often  wonder 
what  kind  of  citizens  they  are  going  to  make. 
But  that  is  only  one  case  in  hundreds.  After 
dark  we  are  afraid  to  walk  on  some  streets 
for  fear  of  stepping  on  some  sleeping  person. 
Our  work  here  is  to  try  to  make  the  number 
of  such  cases  less. 

"I  am  enclosing  some  pictures  of  our  school 
and  other  places.  Perhaps  the  girls  in  the  Mis- 
sionary Society  would  like  to  see  them.  I  am 
very  anxious  that  they  become  interested. 

"Please  remember  me  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Win- 
slow  and  all  the  folks.     I  am 

Very  sincerely, 
Florence  O.  Harper,  '17. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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CUp  i 

BAKER'S  COCOA 

is  a  larde  part  of  a 
^ood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition, very  little 
waste,  and  its  use 
saves  otKer  roods. 

TAAOE  rJARH Oft  Fl/ERY PACKAGE 

WLTER  BAKER  &  CO.  Ltd. 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phones  Richmond  202-203-3087 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oil?,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fiah 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 
A  FRIEND 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 

BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


TELEPHONES 
Richmond   883,  885 


RUDOLF  STOLAR 


R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New   Faneuil   Hall   Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


make  up  rorsages  and  baskets  of 
unusual  rolor  rombinattons  at  wxxs 
reasonable  pares,  anb,  as  alwans, 
Ijaue  a  full  assortment  of  seasonable 
flnuirrs  anu  plants. 

iatlg  anfl  free  neltttmes  in  Aiibitntfctlr 

Glljarnj?  arrmmts  for  all  Btutonts  aoltdtpo 


Ifoitgljinn-Ginnttg 

Park  01.  (Uljurdj  Slower  £>tjop 
Ufrrmont  g'trrpt,  Sosfmi,  iKass. 


tSanmarhrt  \  d31 J-2-31* 


iFree  anb  prompt  beltuerg. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 

PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing   the   full   models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 

JtttUmgnj 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital    paid    in    $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,    90   and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN.  Pres.  H.  F.  RICE,  Vice-Ptes. 

C.  H.  dimming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding;  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,   McDUFFEE   &   STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone    Richmond    1647,     1648 

ALBERT    P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 
Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


1/ 

2G 


LASELL    LEAVES 


New  Spring  Hats 

Reflecting  the  latest  note  in 
authentic  fashions 

New  Sailors     Watteau  Style 
Smart  Close-Fitting  Turbans 

Beautiful  Flower-Trimmed  Hats 

$7.70  to  $15.00 


C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 
BOSTON,  MASS. 


Shop 
By  Mail 


Telephone 
Beach  3460 


T.    E.    MOSELEY    CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model  in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.  Also  in  Black  or  Brown 

Calf   with   Buckskin   Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


Misses'     and    Young    Ladies' 

Suits,     Coats     and    Dresses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  Wear 

at  Popular  Prices 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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BEACH   1561 

PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

"That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  da})" 

TheB  ston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 
BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specially 


9X  B^Ws 

TCojf/STS 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipt 

Packed   in   Stone  Jars 

A.   T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 
Send  for   price  list  of  over  60   kinds 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
flljarmartst 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -         $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 

Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

Domestic  Fruits 

Confectionery,    Cigars 

and  Tobacco 

331  AUBURN  ST.,       AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 
Tel.  Con.   1275  N.  W. 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1907 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic    Work    a    Specialty 

Telephone  Beach   1  45 


C.  W,  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

2B  Park  St.,  Boston  Tel.  Hayrnarket  1150 

Send     for     our     recent     catalogues.     Mail 

orders  filled   the  same   day    as  received. 

Music    sent    on    selection    if    desired. 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


BUNKER  HILL 

COFFEE 


makesjyour  breakfast1 
doubly  enjoyable, 
u  is  a  new  dehdhi 
every  morning 

FRESH  GROUND  ALWAY*  IN 
THE  RED  BUNKER  HILL  BAG 


DELANO  POTTER  &  CO.  BOSTON  MASS 


a  'i^M 

For 

j   afternoon 

PRISCILLA'S  »S3J| 

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society 
functions 

Invalids 

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and 
convales- 

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cents 
thrive  on 

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The    most     delicate     and      delicious    flavored 
chocolate    to    be    found   anywhere 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


New  England's  Greatest  Store 

IS  FULLY  EQUIPPED  TO  SUPPLY 

STUDENTS'  REQUIREMENTS 

OF  PRACTICALLY  EVERY  KIND  AND  NATURE 


Wearing  Apparel  in  Unlimited  Assortments. 
Furniture,  Rugs,  Pictures,  Draperies,  Room  Ornaments. 

Books,  Music,  Writing  Materials,  Cameras,  Gift  Articles,  and  the  multitude  of 
other  things  School  and  College  Life  demands. 

All  at  prices  as  low  as  {or  lower  than)  can  be  found  anywhere  for 
like  quality  —  Free  Delivery  in  Massachusetts  of  any  purchase. 


Jordan  Marsh  Company 

Washington,  Avon,  Summer,  Bedford  and  Chauncy  Streets 


Boston 


5UMMER*ST. 


Diamonds 
Watches 

Bracelet  Watches 
Platinum  Jewehy 
Green  Gold  Jewelry 
Gold  Pocket  Knives 
Gold  Pencils 
Silver  Goods 


New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 

Combs  Fountain  Pens 
Aluminum  Hair  Ornaments     Brass  Goods 

Roman  Pearls  Opera  Glasses 

Cameo  Brooches  Chafing  Dishes 

Vanity  Cases  Percolators 

Doreen  Boxes  Parisian  Ivory 

Photo  Frames  Ebony  Goods 

Leather  Goods  Panel  Mirrors 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 


Our    Watch    and    Jewelry     Repair     Department*    do  the  best 
work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving   Department 

Plate   and    100  Visiting  Cards,   Script    $1.75 
Plate   and     50  Visiting   Cards,  Old  Eng.  $2.75 


MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON 


AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


OSTON* 


1 64  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


21  West  St. 
Tel.  Beach  952 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,-  originality  of 
mounting,  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  onlooker 
say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness";  and  to  our  mind 
a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price,  AS 
OURS  DO. 


Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Let  us  know  what 
you  need — 

We  can  surely 
please  you  — 

P.  P.  ADAMS 

Big  Dry  Goods  Dept.  Store 

133-135-137-139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


Ntftuintt  ©mat  dompatuj 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-12 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Here  You  Pay  No  Fee 

GO  TO  lawyer  or  doctor  for  advice  and  you  rightly 
expect  to  pay.  Come  to  us  for  advice  and  it  costs 
you  nothing.  A  substantial  part  of  this  century- 
old  house  is  an  organization  of  expert  advisors.  They  go 
into  homes  about  to  be  furnished  or  refurnished.  They  gel 
the  atmosphere  of  things.  They  say  what  is  right  and 
what  wrong.  You  may  follow  their  advice  or  not.  Cost 
is  the  same  —nothing. 

JOHN   H.  PRAY  &  SONS  CO. 

646   Washington  St.,   Opposite  Boylston  St.,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 
Pemberton  /    Square 

BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


l^SCLL    [pAVE5 


Vol.  XXXXIV 


LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  APRIL,  1019 


No.  7 


Published  Monthly  front  October  to  June  by  the  Lasell  Seminary  Students. 
Entered  as  second-class  matter  at  the  Boston,  Mass.,  Post  Office. 
Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rate  of  postage  provided  for  in  Section  1103,  Act  of  October  3,  TJ17,  authorized  on  October  28,  1918. 


Business  Manager 
KATHER1NE    RICE 


Local  Editors 

MARJOR1E  HUSSEY 

HELEN  FILES 

Joke  Editor 

DORIS  ROGERS 

Assistant 

MARION  WILLIAMS 


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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

The  Unwelcome  Cuest R-    Wardle  5 

A  Fateful   Tangle M.    Perky  6 

The  Explosion M-   whiic  7 

The  Postman  and  His   Valentine T.    Swan  8 

EDITORIAI 9 

LOCALS   10 

PERSONAL 13 

JOKES 16 

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THE   UNWELCOME   GUEST 


There  are  few  college  graduates  who  do 
not  recall  their  freshman  days  with  pleasure. 
At  the  time  the  boy  doubtless  thinks  that  he 
is  having  "more  downs  than  ups,"  especially 
when  his  professor  announces  a  thousand- 
word  theme  due  on  the  most  impossible  sub- 
ject, but  in  the  years  that  follow  he  remem- 
bers only  the  pleasant  things.  One  particu- 
lar incident  connected  with  my  first  year  I 
shall  never  forget. 

It  happened  the  day  of  my  initiation  into 
my  sorority — one  of  the  "big  days"  for  all 
concerned.  Every  girl,  I  dare  say,  was  anx- 
iously wondering  what  stunts  she  would  have 
to  do.  All  sorts  of  rumors  had  been  circu- 
lated as  to  what  might  happen  to  us.  As  my 
roommate  and  I  made  the  same  sorority,  we 
went  together.  Not  daring  to  be  a  moment 
late,  we  started  much  earlier  than  necessary. 
.Arrived  at  the  house,  I  rang  the  door-bell, 
whereupon  the  lights  in  the  house  went  im- 
mediately out  and  the  door  was  mysteriously 
opened  by  a  ghost,  who  directed  us  to  the 
next  room,  where  there  were  eight  or  ten 
other  girls  awaiting  their  turn.  One  by  one 
they  were  conducted  away.  Finally  came 
my  turn.  I  was  blindfolded,  ushered  into  a 
certain  room,  and  told  to  open  my  mouth,  and 
chew  a  nice,  fat,  woolly  worm  that  they  had 
for  me. 

One  of  the  girls  said,  "Don't  let  it  slip, 
Ann.  Now,  Ruth,  open  your  mouth  wide. 
It  really  is  a  tasty  one." 


My  mouth  opened,  but  I  had  wild  visions 
of  choking.  Down  went  this  cold  piece  of 
something  which  I  supposed  was  the  worm, 
but  which  I  afterwards  learned  was  a  piece 
of  liver.  I  prefer  not  to  say  how  hard  a 
time  they  had  trying  to  make  me  swallow  it. 

Following  this,  I  was  unblinded  and  two 
of  the  girls,  taking  me  out  of  doors,  com- 
manded me  to  say  to  every  gentleman  I  met, 
"Good  evening !  Pleasant  day  tomorrow,  if 
it  doesn't  rain  !"  My  good  fortune  was  with 
me  this  time  as  we  met  comparatively  few 
men  and  those  we  did  meet  proved  to  be 
friends  of  mine,  and  took  it  in  good  part. 
They  soon  got  tired,  finding  this  less  fun 
than  they  had  anticipated,  and  took  me  back- 
to  the  house.  Once  again  I  was  blindfolded 
but  before  they  tied  the  handkerchief,  I  had 
seen  in  the  corner  ten  or  twelve  brooms.  I 
never  learned,  however,  what  these  were  for. 
because  suddenly  there  was  a  wild  confusion. 

One  of  the  girls  screamed,  "Get  out  of 
here,  you  pesky  things!'' 

What  was  I  to  do,  uncertain  as  I  was 
whether  this  was  the  regular  course  of  things 
or  something  unexnected?  Betty  grabbed 
one  of  the  brooms  and  began  beating  the 
floor  with  it.  Mary  scrambled  upon  the  table 
without  saying  a  word.  These  proceedings 
confused  me.  I  stood  irresolute  and  when 
another  girl  cried,  "Get  out  of  here,"  I  be- 
gan to  wonder  if  I  were  the  one  who  was  to 
get  out?  Then  I  unblinded  myself,  to  find 
that  I  was  not  the  unwelcome  guest,  but  a 
lonely  little  gray  mouse  that  had  no  intention 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


of  breaking  up  an  initiation.  He  must  have 
known  he  was  not  wanted,  because  he  made 
a  very  short  call.  Perhaps  I  owe  my  escape 
from  a  great  deal  of  unpleasant  experience  to 
our  unwelcome  guest,  who  for  a  few  minutes 
interrupted  our  initiation. 

R.   Wardle. 


A  FATEFUL  TANGLE 


As  Jordan  Berkley  lay  in  a  hospital  cot 
somewhere  in  France,  his  sentiments  might 
well  have  been  expressed  in  the  words  of  the 
song,  "I  don't  want  to  get  well,  I'm  in  love 
with  a  beautiful  nurse."  Yes,  he  was  in  love 
with  his  pretty  French  nurse,  but  it  can  not 
exactly  be  said  that  he  was  "having  a  wonder- 
ful time."  Quite  the  contrary ;  he  was  having 
a  most  provoking  time  in  one  respect  at  least 
— she  knew  no  English,  and  his  French  was 
incomprehensible. 

Of  course  there  was  any  number  of  doc- 
tors and  nurses  about  that  hospital  who  could 
act  as  interpreters  when  necessity  arose,  but 
Jordan  did  not  want  a  third  person  translat- 
ing his  love  messages;  so  he  was  obliged  to 
depend  upon  his  own  resources. 

He  had  been  in  France  long  enough  to 
have  learned  a  few  every-day  phrases,  but 
how  could  they  help  him  to  tell  Mademoiselle 
Valentine  how  much  he  thought  of  her?  He 
could  ask  her  in  her  own  language  for  a 
match,  but  he  couldn't  tell  her  how  becom- 
ing her  Red  Cross  uniform  was.  He  could 
say  "Bon  jour"  to  her,  but  he  couldn't  tell  her 
what  wonderful  eyes  she  had. 

One  day  a  happy  thought  struck  him.  He 
suddenly  recollected  a  few  words  he  had  once 
heard  a  poilu  say  to  his  sweetheart.  As  well 
as  Jordan  could  remember,  he  had  called  her 
"mnn  petite."  Jordan  knew  this  meant  some- 
thing like  "my  little  girl,"  but  he  did  not  know 
that  there  is  a  difference  between  "ma"  and 
"moil." 

Naturally,  when  Jordan  used  the  words 
"mini  petite"  to  Mademoiselle  Valentine,  she 


didn't  have  any  idea  that  he  meant  her,  but 
making  allowances  for  his  pronunciation  of 
"petit,"  she  thought  that  he  must  be  trying  to 
tell  her  something  about  his  little  boy. 

"So  le  beau  American  has  a  little  boy  in 
America,"  she  reflected.  "No  doubt  he  has 
a  pretty  wife,  too.  Ah,  well,  he  will  be  leav- 
ing the  hospital  in  a  few  weeks,  and  I  can  soon 
forget  him — perhaps." 

Thus  this  little  hospital  romance  had  a  few 
clouds ;  Valentine  was  troubled  because  her 
American  was  married,  and  Jordan  was  dis- 
turbed on  account  of  his  limited  French  vo- 
cabulary. 

A  week  or  so  before  he  had  recovered  suffi- 
ciently from  his  wounds  to  leave  the  hospital, 
he  decided  that  if  Valentine  was  ever  to  learn 
of  his  love  he  must  act  boldly  and  use  an  in- 
terpreter. After  several  days  of  indecision, 
he  made  up  his  mind  to  consult  Doctor  Para- 
dis,  the  youngest  member  of  the  medical  staff. 

Jordan  felt  exceedingly  foolish  to  make 
such  a  request,  and  thought  that  if  anyone 
had  ever  confided  such  a  thing  to  him,  he 
would  have  told  the  chap  what  kind  of  a  fool 
he  was,  and  "kidded  the  life  out  of  him."  But 
then,  the  French,  he  thought  to  himself,  are 
a  romantic  race,  and  he  felt  sure  Doctor  Pa- 
radis  would  not  laugh. 

At  his  first  opportunity,  the  doctor  came  to 
Jordan's  bedside  in  response  to  the  message 
that  Berkley  wished  to  consult  him  on  a  very 
important  personal  matter.  But  out  of  all  the 
doctors  in  that  hospital  Jordan  had  chosen, 
the  one  least  likely  to  help  him,  for  Doctor 
Paradis  was  in  love  with  the  beautiful  nurse 
himself.  It  is  easy  to  imagine  the  doctor's 
feelings  when  Jordan  asked  him  to  convey  his 
love  and  heart  to  Mademoiselle  Valentine. 

"Comment!"  said  the  doctor.  "Now  I  un- 
derstand why  Valentine  has  been  so  cold  to 
me  since  L'Americain  has  been  here.  She 
loves  him,  too!"  Paradis  really  wasn't  a  bad 
fellow,  but  it  was  a  rather  hard  job  he  had 
been  asked  to  do,  to  fix  it  up  so  that  his  rival 
and  the  girl  he  himself  wanted  would  know 
thev  loved  each  other.     This  was  a  little  too 


LASELL    LEAVES 


much  to  ask,  he  thought,  and  therefore  he 
fixed  up  the  message  to  suit  himself. 

"Mademoiselle,"  he  said,  as  he  encountered 
Valentine  on  her  way  to  Berkley's  cot,  "I  have 
an  unpleasant  task  to  perform.  Monsieur 
Berkley  is,  I  fear,  an  ungrateful  sort  of  a 
fellow.  He  has  requested  that  his  nurse  be 
changed.  He  gave  no  reason,  merely  stating 
that  he  preferred  not  to  have  you  in  charge  of 
him.  Where  can  his  eyes  be,  Mademoiselle? 
How  could  he  wish  to  be  rid  of  such  a  beau- 
tiful—" 

But  the  girl,  setting  down  the  tray  she  was 
earning,  had  fled.  For  three  days  she  did 
not  go  near  Jordan's  cot,  having  been  trans- 
ferred to  another  part  of  the  hospital,  through 
Doctor  Paradis'   influence. 

During  the  time,  Jordan  had  impatiently 
waited  the  return  of  "mon  petite,"  as  he  al- 
ways called  her.  When  she  did  not  come 
back,  he  showed  signs  of  becoming  ill.  He 
was  restless  at  night  and  tossed  about  in  his 
cot  in  such  a  way  that  one  of  his  wounds  re- 
opened. It  was  not  a  very  serious  wound,  the 
slightest  of  the  four  he  had  received,  but  he 
still  was  very  weak,  and  soon  worked  himself 
into  a  fever. 

During  the  night  he  grew  a  little  delirious, 
and  every  once  in  a  while  he  would  call  for 
"mon  petite."  His  new  nurse  tried  to  quiet 
him,  but  did  not  succeed.  Finally,  when  he 
began  to  call  for  "mon  petite  Valentine,"  she 
decided  he  must  want  his  former  nurse. 

Valentine  was  sent  for,  and  at  the  sound 
of  her  voice,  the  patient  quieted  down.  In  a 
few  hours  the  fever  had  passed,  and  Jordan 
opened  his  eyes  to  see  Valentine  beside  him. 

"Mon  petite !"  he  exclaimed,  and  then 
turned  to  the  other  nurse,  who  understood 
English.  "Tell  her  I  love  her,"  he  said,  "and 
want  to  know  if  she  does  me,  and  if  she  will 
marry  me." 

Valentine  listened  to  the  girl's  words,  trans- 
fixed, her  wonderful  eyes  wide  with  surprise. 

"Mais — son  petit?"  she  said.  "His  little 
boy  and  his  wife  in  America.  What  about 
them?    And  what  Doctor  Paradis  told  me?" 


"\\  hy,  he  says  he  has  no  wife  and  little 
boy,"  interpreted  the  nurse.  "He  means  you. 
He  means  "ma  petite"  not  "mon  petit."  He 
told  Doctor  Paradis  the  same  thing  he  has 
just  told  me — " 

But  here  she  remembered  very  pressing  du- 
ties in  another  part  of  the  hospital.  A  few 
moments  later,  as  Doctor  Paradis  was  pass- 
ing the  American's  cot,  what  he  saw  caused 
him  to  raise  his  eyebrows,  and  with  a  resigned 
sigh,  he  gave  up  all  hope  of  Valentine.  To 
make  up  for  the  trouble  he  had  caused  he 
promised  himself  that  he  would  give  Berkley 
his  first  lesson  in  French,  and  Valentine  her 
first  English  lesson,  which  goes  to  prove  that 
he  was  not  such  a  bad  fellow  after  all. 

M.  Perley. 


THE   EXPLOSION 


An  incident  which  I  shall  not  forget  for  a 
long  time,  was  the  Perth  Amboy  explosion 
that  occurred  this  past  fall.  There  was  not 
one  brief  explosion,  but  rather  a  series  of 
them  which  lasted  all  night  long,  and  most  of 
the  next  day.  So  powerful  were  they  that, 
although  we  live  about  nineteen  miles  from 
Perth  Amboy,  we  seemed  but  a  short  dis- 
tance away. 

The  first  explosion  took  place  on  Friday 
evening  about  eight  o'clock.  Father  and  I 
were  reading  in  the  living  room,  when  we 
were  disturbed  by  a  most  violent  rattling  of 
the  front  doors.  As  I  thought  it  was  the  little 
boy  who  lives  next  door,  I  paid  but  slight  at- 
tention to  the  noise.  But  it  came  again,  this 
time  louder  and  longer.  I  opened  the  door, 
but  saw  no  one.  After  that,  things  became 
quiet  for  a  while. 

The  next  explosion  came  about  ten  o'clock. 
I  was  up  in  my  room  when,  all  of  a  sudden, 
the  window  curtains  stood  right  out  straight, 
flapping  in  the  air,  and  then  dropped  down.  It 
was  most  uncanny  as  the  only  noise  was  the 
continual  banging  of  the  front  doors  When 
the  pictures  on  the  wall  started  to  swing,  I 
began  to  th'nk  the  house  was  really  haunWh 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Father  came  in  and  together  we. looked  out 
the  window,  noticing  that  the  whole  sky  was 
red.  The  only  explanation  we  could  think  of 
was  a  naval  battle. 

At  about  four  in  the  morning  we  were 
awakened  by  the  worst  explosion  of  all.  The 
whole  house  just  rocked.  By  that  time  we 
were  too  frightened  to  sleep  any  longer. 
Father  dressed,  took  the  car  out,  and  went 
down  town.  There  he  was  told  that  at  Perth 
Amboy,  there  were  two  magazines  of  T.  N. 
T.  and  that  the  last  explosion  had  been  from 
the  smaller  one.  They  were  afraid  the  big 
one  could  not  be  saved  either,  and  had  set  the 
time  for  it  to  go  off  between  twelve  and  one 
that  afternoon.  Father  was  also  warned  to 
open  all  the  windows,  and  to  keep  everybody 
outside  until  the  worst  was  over.  It  was  ter- 
rible waiting,  just  waiting  for  that  big  maga- 
zine to  go  off,  and  not  knowing  what  was  go- 
ing to  be  left. 

One  o'clock  that  afternoon  passed,  and  by 
that  time  the  firemen  had  the  fire  under  con- 
trol. With  the  exception  of  a  few  minor  ex- 
plosions, no  others  followed.  Later  in  the 
afternoon  I  went  down  town,  but  no  one  was 
allowed  to  walk  on  the  sidewalks  on  account 
of  the  fear  of  more  plate-glass  falling. 

Around  four  o'clock  the  refugees  began  to 
pour  in.  It  reminded  me  of  the  descriptions 
I  had  read  about  the  people  fleeing'  in  France. 
'Whole  families  came  at  a  time,  with  all  their 
worldly  possessions  tied  up  in  big  handker- 
chiefs. The  Red  Cross  headquarters  was 
filled  quickly  and  a  call  was  sent  out  to  peo- 
ple to  feed  the  refugees  in  their  homes.  The 
state  of  things  at  the  hospital  was  the  worst 
of  any.  It  was  simply  filled  with  shell-shock 
cases,  not  counting  those  with  influenza  and 
pneumonia  that  developed  from  the  explo- 
sion. The  whole  situation  was  so  pitiful  that 
it  still  haunts  my  memory. 

M.  White. 


THE     POSTMAN     AND    HIS     VALEN- 
TINE 


A  postman's  life  is  not  so  monotonous  as 
it  sometimes  looks  to  outsiders.  At  least  if 
he  has  any  imagination  and  takes  any  inter- 
est in  his  work.  I  have  been  a  postman  for 
twenty  years  and  have  been  on  this  route  for 
fifteen.  Every  morning  I  see  the  same  faces ; 
sometimes  they  are  bright  and  happy  and 
greet  me  with  a  cheerful  smile ;  at  others  they 
are  sad.  Perhaps  someone  dear  to  them  is  ill 
or  they  have  other  cares  and  Avorries. 

Yesterday  was  St.  Valentine's  Day,  and  I 
had  a  great  many  valentines  to  deliver.  There 
were  a  great  many  for  Virginia  Green,  the  lit- 
tle lame  girl,  whom  everyone  loves.  I  im- 
agine the  girls  and  boys  in  her  class  at  school 
had  each  sent  her  one.  Virginia's  back  is  so 
bad  now  that  she  can't  attend  school,  but 
must  lie  in  bed  most  of  the  time.  I  can  see 
her  sweet  little  face  brighten  as  she  opens 
each  of  those  envelopes  containing  the  fancy 
paper,  lace  affairs,  each  with  its  individual 
love  note. 

At  another  home,  a  large  and  imposing 
looking  house  this  time,  I  left  no  valentines. 
The  young  lady,  however,  to  whom  I  handed 
a  letter  postmarked  "Soldiers'  Mail,"  seemed 
to  think  it  far  more  precious  than  any  val- 
entine. 

Farther  along  on  my  route  I  stopped  to  de- 
liver a  suspicious  looking  envelope  to  a  crusty 
old  bachelor,  whom  all  the  young  boys  in  the 
town  call  ''Crabby,"  because  of  his  disagree- 
able disposition.  Not  being  in  the  habit  of 
having  much  mail  to  deliver  to  him,  I  noticed 
particularly  this  envelope.  It  was  directed  in 
an  almost  illegible  boyish  scrawl,  and  from  its 
size  and  shape  I  felt  sure  that  it  was  one  of 
those  penny  caricature  valentines  which  boys 
delight  in  sending.  It  brought  vividly  back  to 
me  the  time  when  we  boys  sent  one  to  our 
school  principal.  Somehow,  he  didn't  seem 
to  appreciate  the  joke ;  so  I  didn't  stop  to  see 

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The  new  Leaves  Staff  makes  its  bow  with 
this  number  and  hopes  all  readers  of  the 
school  magazine  will  be  charitable  in  their  criti- 
cisms. The  retiring  editors  set  a  high  standard 
of  excellence  for  the  paper;  we  trust  they 
will  find  that  thev  have  left  it  in  worthy  hands. 


Do  we  ever  stop  to  consider  the  wonderful 
opportunity  open  to  all  of  us  here  at  Lasell  ? 
We  are  all  given  the  same  one — that  of  mak- 
ing friends ;  friends  who  will  mean  much  to 
us,  not  only  during  our  school  days,  but  all 
through  our  lives.  After  all,  who  can  afford 
to  go  through  life  without  friends  on  whom 
he  may  bestow  special  care  and  love?  When 
old  age  comes,  that  man  who  has  loved  no  life- 
long friend  is  indeed  poor  in  heart  compared 
with  what  he  might  have  been. 

Let  us  cultivate  acquaintances ;  they  may 
blossom  into  firm  friends.  As  a  result  Ave  shall 
find  that  we  have  a  host  of  loyal  friendships. 
The  way  to  be  a  friend  is  to  have  one — and 
friends  slowly  won  are  long  held.  Why  not 
all  learn  to  know  each  other  better?  For  it 
is  true  that  we  must  understand  and  knozv 
each  other  in  order  to  become  warm  friends. 
Then  perhaps  the  very  girls  who  have  never 
before  touched  our  lives,  will  prove  to  be  our 
best  and  most  cherished  friends.  It  is  now, 
in  our  youth,  that  this  great  opportunity  is 
open  to  us ;  therefore  let  us  all  be  "true  blue." 


If  we  learn  to  meet  the  "Little  Things'" 

That  come  into  our  life, 
"\Ye  shall  well  o'ercome  the  "Larger  Tasks" 

We  find  in  worldly  strife. 

If  we  learn  to  do  the  "Kindly  Deeds" 

Which  come  along  our  way, 
We  shall  richer,  truer,  purer  be 

As  longer  grow  our  days. 

If  we  "Do  it"  with  a  willing  heart, 

And  "Say  it"  with  a  smile, 
We  shall  have  a  noble  character, 

And  be  a  girl  worth  while ! 


The  Leaves  Staff  wishes  to  announce  a 
short  story  contest  for  the  May  issue.  As  the 
competition  is  open  to  all,  we  hope  to  have 
a  lot  of  good  material.  The  prize  for  the  best 
story  will  be  a  Lasell  ring. 


Are  we  dropping  our  mob  manners: 


How  can  we  enjoy  Sunday?  Very  often 
we  hear — "Oh,  I  just  hate  Sundays !  They 
are  so  long  and  lonely."  We  should  try  to 
make  Sunday  a  happy  day,  not  a  gloomy  one. 
It  is  during  our  "Quiet  Hour"  that  we  are 
given  an  opportunity  for  meditation  which  is 
denied  in  the  busy  week.  In  it  we  should  seek 
more  experience  in  silent  communion.  Sun- 
day is  not  truly  enjoyed  without  worship.  It 
is  God's  day  and  its  real  pleasure  comes  from 
communion  with  Him.  Just  as  we  girls  at 
school  delight  to  spend  week-ends  at  home 
with  those  we  love — so  we  should  like  to 
spend  some  time  with  God,  and  Sunday  is  our 
chance  to  meet   our   Father  in  His   House. 


At  Vesper  service  Sunday  evening,  March 
9,  Dr.  Perrin  of  Boston  University  spoke  to 
us  of  inspiration.  Dr.  Perrin  first  said  that  it 
is  better  to  be  than  to  do,  but  that  doing  is 
the  expression  of  being  and  that  for  the  doing 
we  need  inspiration.  The  poorer,  more  igno- 
rant classes  want  more  money.  For  them  the 
inspiration  as  to  how  to  use  this  money  cor- 
rectly may  be  given  by  beautiful  surround- 
ings, such  as  parks,  good  pictures,  and  good 
music.  In  this  way  will  come  the  inspiration 
for  better  citizenship.  Democracy  cannot  have 
its  ideal  with  a  drudging  under  class.  Give 
people  the  best  and  they  will  not  care  for  the 
unworthy.  The  daily  doing  of  small  duties 
under  inspiration  so  forms  character  that 
when  the  big  things  of  life  come,  the  way  for 
them  is  prepared. 

Tuesday  noon,  March  n,.Miss  Eager  spoke 
on  the  organization  for  French  relief.  She 
told  of  the  work  that  had  been  done  for  the 
French  wounded  during  the  war  and  also  for 
the  refugees  after  the  armistice  was  signed. 
In  closing  Miss  Eager  spoke  of  the  gift  of 
money  for  a  children's  hospital,  probably  to 
be  in  Rheims.  In  equipping  that  hospital  we 
may  have  a  share. 

Christian  Endeavor,  Tuesday  evening, 
March    n,   was  led  by  Priscilla  Alden.  Pris- 


cilla's  subject  was  contentment.  She  made 
us  all  resolve  to  work  cheerfully  and  be  con- 
tented regardless  of  what  happens. 

The  election  of  the  Leaves'  board  for  1919- 
1920  was  held  on  Wednesday  evening,  Mar.  19. 
The  staff  is  now  composed  of  the  following 
girls : 

Frances  Heath,  Editor-in-chief. 

Helen  Balcom,  Assistant  Editor. 

Gladys   Burnet,   Literary  Editor. 

Katherine  Rice,  Business  Manager. 

Lillian  Doane,  Outside  Subscriptions. 

Margaret    Stewart,    School    Subscriptions. 

Doris  Rogers,  Joke  Editor. 

Marion  Williams,  Assistant. 

Florence  Kuhn,   Exchange  Editor. 

Miriam  White,  Assistant. 

Elaine  Bass,  Art  Editor. 

Dorothy  Raich,  Assistant. 

May  Fogg,  Athletic  Editor. 

Marjorie  Hussey,  Local  Editor. 

Helen  Files,  Assistant. 

The  last  reception  of  the  winter  was  given 
on  the  evening  of  March  20th.  The  guests 
were  received  in  the  parlor  by  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Winslow  and  Miss  Packard.  After  a  pleas- 
ant social  hour  students  and  friends  were 
given  a  rare  musical  treat,  for  Mr.  Sergei 
Adamsky,  a   Russian   tenor,   formerly  of   the 


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Imperial  Opera  Company,  had  been  secured 
as  singer  for  the  evening.  The  unusual  pro- 
gram consisted  chiefly  of  groups  of  Russian 
songs.  All  were  admirably  sung.  Miss  Edna 
Shepherd  accompanied  charmingly,  showing 
a  rare  appreciation  and  understanding  of  the 
songs.  Mr.  Adamsky  is  soon  to  give  a  con- 
cert at  Jordan  Hall. 

Saturday  morning,  March  15th,  the  collect- 
ors from  the  various  houses  and  corridors, 
deposited  their  spoils  for  the  rummage  sale 
on  and  around  the  platform  of  the  Chapel. 
Hats,  shoes,  dresses,  and  what  not,  made  a 
fine  showing,  proving  that  the  girls  had  been 
very  enthusiastic  to  help  pay  for  the  New- 
ton bed  in  the  Red  Cross  hospital  in  France. 
The  sale  was  held  in  Newton  Centre  from 
March  22  to  29. 

On  the  evening  of  March  30,  the  Rev.  J. 
Edgar  Park  of  West  Newton  gave  an  inter- 
esting reading  of  war-time  poetry,  "When 
the  Guards  Came  Through,"  by  Conan  Doyle, 
"Florette"  by  Robert  Service,  and  "We're 
Goin'  'Ome,"  by  Kipling  were  selected  as 
types  of  poems  which  have  made  a  direct 
appeal  to  the  soldier.  They  were  effectively 
read  and  much  enjoyed. 

In  our  regular  lecture  period  on  Thurs- 
day, March  27th,  Mrs.  Lucia  Ames  Mead 
spoke  to  us  on  the  subject.  The  League  of 
Nations.  She  said  that  it  was  the  most  im- 
portant document  that  has  ever  been 
framed.  She  gave  us  three  reasons  why  the 
League  is  necessary.  First,  the  world  has 
become  organic.  This  means  that  no  nation 
may  consider  itself  a  separate  part;  there- 
fore each  is  responsible  to  every  other.  Sec- 
ond, many  of  the  small  nations  are  disinte- 
grating and  need  the  guarantee  of  safety 
which  the  League  would  give  them.  Third, 
no  nation  alone  is  able  to  defend  itself,  for 
we  are  fighting  nowadays  not  with  arma- 
ments alone,  but  with  germs  and  microbes. 
Mrs.  Mead  gave  us  several  points  in  the  con- 
stitution of  the  League.  All  nations  are 
eligible;  there  is  to  be  a  legislative  body,  an 
executive  council  of  nine  and  a  world  court; 
no  nation  will  dare  play  falsely,  for  the  pun- 


ishment is  boycott.  Lastly  there  are  to  be 
mandatories  and  each  large  nation  is  to  have 
disinterested  charge  over  a  smaller,  weaker 
one. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  March  25th,  Christian 
Endeavor  was  led  by  Dorothy  Hopper.  She 
gave  us  a  very  good  talk  on  the  subject  of  a 
life  purpose  and  showed  us  how  necessary  it 
is  to  have  a  fixed  ambition  and  to  drive  steadily 
toward  it.     ■ 

Vespers,  on  March  23,  was  in  charge  of  the 
Missionary  Society.  Miss  Kendrick,  head  of 
the  B'ble  Department  of  Wellesley  College, 
spoke  to  us.  Her  talk  was  about  the  Pine 
Mountain  School  in  Kentucky,  in  which  the 
Missionary  Society  is  very  much  interested. 
Miss  Kendrick  has  recently  returned  from  a 
trip  to  this  school  and  was  able  to  tell  us  in  an 
interesting  way  about  the  progress  made  there 
during  the  six  years  of  its  existence. 


BASKET    BALL 


The  fact  that  basket  ball  was  started  rath- 
er late  did  not  prevent  us  from  making  a 
good  showing.  The  first  game  was  played 
February  15,  with  Melrose  High  School,  at 
Lasell.  The  game  was  well  played,  the  final 
score  being  46-35  in  favor  of  Melrose.  After 
the  game  hot  chocolate  and  sandwiches  were 
served  in  Junior  room.  The  line-up  for  La- 
sell  was  as  follows : 

Forwards,  Hall,  Fogg,  James,  Centers, 
Abrams,   Hussey.     Guards,  Florence,   Patten. 

The  second  game  was  played  with  Newton 
High  School  on  February  2/.  The  final  score 
was  97-38  in  favor  of  Lasell.  The  line-up 
was : 

Forwards,  Hall,  Fogg,  Kent.  Centers, 
Abrams,  Griffin,  Hussey,  Crane.  Guards, 
Florence,   fatten,  James. 

In  the  return  game  with  Newton  we  were 
also  victorious,  the  score  being  30-18.  The 
game  with  nine  players  on  a  side  was  used. 
The  line-up  was : 

Forwards,  Hall,  Kent,  Vance. 

Centers,  Abrams,  Hussey,  Crane,  Doane. 

Guards,   Fatten,   Florence,   James. 


12  LASELL 

WOODLAND   PARK   NOTES 


On  February  22,  both  teachers  and  girls 
spent  a  very  enjoyable  afternoon  at  the  Chil- 
dren's Theater  of  the  Emerson  School  of  Ora- 
tory, where  the  players  so  delightfully  enter- 
tained their  audience  with  George  Washington 
stories  and  Mother  Goose  Lore.  We  felt  as  if 
we  had  really  been  treated  with  tarts  at  the 
"Queen's  Tea  Party,''  where  we  renewed  our 
acquaintance  with  Humpty  Dumpty,  Bo  Peep, 
Little  Boy  Blue,  Jack  Horner  and  Little  Miss 
Muffett. 

The  "Goose  Herd  and  the  Goblin"  was  also 
most  delightfully  presented,  and  Conrad  made 
us  feel  the  joy  of  happiness  in  our  own  place 
in  life,  for  when  his  wishes  were  granted  nei- 
ther the  splendor  of  kingship  nor  the  glamor  of 
wealth  brought  as  much  happiness  to  him  as 
his  own  flock  of  white  geese  and  his  dear 
mother. 

Vv  oodland  Park  was  honored  on  the  after- 
noon of  March  18th,  when  the  teachers  and 
students  of  Lasell,  in  spite  of  a  driving  storm, 
responded  so  bravely  to  our  "Open  House"  in- 
vitation. The  guests  were  joyously  greeted  by 
the  younger  members  of  the  school.  Some  of 
our  older  pupils  introduced  the  guests  to  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Winslow,  Miss  Huson,  Mrs..  Mc- 
Donald and  Miss  Chase,  who  received  in  the 
Blue  Room.  Another  group  showed  the  guests 
about  the  house  while  still  others  served  re- 
freshments in  the  Assembly  Room.  Miss  Pot- 
ter graciously  joined  the  receiving  line  for  a 
short  time. 

Elizabeth  Retan,  who  has  been  a  house  pupil 
since  the  New  Year,  has'  returned  to  her 
home  in  West  Newton  and  is  again  counted  as 
a  day  pupil. 

Catherine  Brown  and  Jane  Brown  were  two 
sunny  additions  to  our  home  while  their  par- 
ents were  in  the  South. 

Our  resident  pupils  have  three  additions  in 
Barbara  Sprague,  Frances  Sprague  and  Avis 
Hearst. 

We  still  feel  the  uplift  we  received  when  the 
alumnae  of  Lasell  visited  us  at  the  midwin- 


LEAVES 

« 

ter  reunion.  The  coming  to  us  of  Lasell 
teachers  and  students  is  always  a  pleasure,  but 
we  realized  more  than  ever  our  responsibility 
in  being  Lasell's  Junior  School  when  we  met 
the  young  women  who  have  left  the  school  for 
broader  lines — and  who  want,  when  they  re- 
turn, to  see  the  upward  movement  in  their  dear 
old  school  home. 

Among  the  pleasant  events  of  the  past  weeks 
was  the  third  recital  given  by  the  music  de- 
partment of  the  school. 

The  program  which  follows  was  given  in  a 
manner  to  show'  a  satisfactory  progress  and 
was  most  creditable  to  the  participants. 

SONG.     To  the  flag.  Riley-Gaynor 

The   School 
SEMIRIMIS    (Arr.   for   four   hands)  Rossini 

Miss  Chase,  Miss  Beede 
SWING  SONG.  Ehmant 

Louisa  Mueller 
EVENING  (Arr.  for  four  hands)  Low 

Donald  Winslow,  Miss  Chase 
SONGS.     The  Owl  Liza  Lehmann 

The   Secret  Speaks 

Miss   Beede 
SONGS  OF  THE  WAVES  (Arr.  for 

six  hands )  Raff 

Mary  Palmateer,  Katherine  Braithwaite, 
Helen  Palmateer 
SWEET  VIOLET  Smallwood 

Inez  Cahrera 
SONGS.     Mr.  Rooster  and  Mrs.  Hen 

Riley-Gaynor 
The  Wind  Riley-Gaynor 

The  School 
ROUNDELAY  Heller 

Cora  Cornell 
SPANISH    DANCE   No.  4    (Arr.   for   four 

hands)  Moskowski 

Marie   Cabrera,    Miss    Chase 
PRESTISSIMO.     In  D  Major  Rolling 

Elizabeth   Retan 
SOXG.     There  are  Fairies  at  the  Bottom 

of   our   Garden  Liza   Lehmann 

Miss   Beede 
RABBITS'   REVELS  Richards 

THE    HOBBY    HORSE    RIDE  Dennie 

Gwendolyn  McDonald 
POLONAISE  Schmoll 

Ruth   Ufford 
SOXG.     Home  again 

Words:  Henry  Van  Dyke 
Music:  C.  Austin  Miles 
The  School 


Dear  "bonnie  Jessie"  Robinson  is  now  Mrs. 
Francis  Stewart  Breed.  The  wedding  occurred 
on  the  twelfth  of  March  at  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut. 

And  Virginia  May  Moore,  '17,  is  now  Mrs. 
Warren  Fellows  Starkey  The  marriage  oc- 
curred on  April  fifth  at  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  in  Duluth,  Minnesota.  Our 
very  heartiest  congratulations  to  brides  and 
grooms.  We  sincerely  wish  the  wedding  jour- 
ney would  include  Auburndale  in  the  itinerary. 

Mrs.  Royal  P.  Dutton,  nee  Ellen  A.  Cud- 
worth,  called  with  some  friends  recently  at  the 
school  home.  It  is  ten  years  since  she  was 
here,  but  she  looks  just  the  same  only,  if  pos- 
sible, a  bit  happier,  and  no  wonder,  when  we 
look  at  the  picture  of  that  blessed  little  Rob- 
ert Tristrane  Dutton.  Of  all  the  cunning  "kid- 
dies" we  have  seen,  none  can  get  ahead  of  this 
dear  little  baby  to  whom  we  have  been  intro- 
duced through  a  series  of  snapshots. 

Ellen  also  gave  to  our  preceptress  a  picture 
of  Mrs.  Walter  Dunbar  (Alice  Fuller)  and 
her  clear  babv  girl,  Marion  Phoebe  Dunbar.  If 
there  ever  was  a  case  of  sitting  up  and  taking 
notice,  this  was  one,  for  little  Marion  in  the 
arms  of  her  adoring  mother  presents  herself 
a  dear,  wide-awake  baby. 

Mildred  Strain,  '17,  has  been  visiting  in  our 


neighborhood  lately  and  pleased  us  by  her 
neighborliness.  We  assured  her  repeatedly 
that  she  looked  unusually  well  and  happy,  and, 
although  she  is  very  reticent,  her  girl  friends 
say  "she  has  every  reason  to  be  unusually  hap- 
py." Full  report  to  be  given  in  a  later  number 
of  the  Leaves. 

In  the  February  number  of  the  Red  Cross 
magazine  is  a  fine  article  entitled  "The  Aver- 
age New  Yorker."  It  is  a  charming  sketch  of 
the  war  service  of  Sterling  S.  Beardsley,  hus- 
band of  our  Anna  Wilson.  Those  who  knew 
Anna  will  be  sure  to  read  it  and  one  can  not 
fail  to  be  intensely  interested  in  this  fine  fa- 
miliar sketch  of  a  Lasell  girl  and  her  soldier 
husband. 

Barbara  McLellan,  '18,  certainly  is  quite  de- 
lighted with  California  and  we  in  turn  have 
been  delighted  with  her  splendid  sketches  of 
places  and  people,  especially  her  kindly  refer- 
ences to  our  Lasell  girls  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
She  made  her  headquarters  at  Los  Angeles 
and  from  that  city  writes  that  she  has  had 
delightful  companionship  with  Amy  Phillips, 
'18,  Dorothy  Barnes,  '18,  and  Marion  Lord. 
She  tells  us  that  both  Dorothy  Barnes  and  her 
room-mate,  Margaret  Mclntyre,  '18,  are  plan- 
ning to  be  at  Lasell  for  Commencement.  Al- 
so writes,  "Last  Saturdav  afternoon  we  were 


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just  starting  out  for  a  drive  with  Amy  when  a 
young  lady  came  up  to  us  and  said  that  she 
remembered  Amy  at  Lasell.  I  cannot  think  of 
her  first  name,  but  her  given  name  was  Made- 
line. She  was  in  the  class  of  '16,  lived  in  Hol- 
yoke,  Mass.,  and  was  out  here  as  her  husband 
is  in  the  Naval  Aviation,  stationed  at  San 
Diego."  We  can  supply  the  rest,  (Barbara,  for 
this  was  none  other  than  Madeline  Sheldon 
Herfurth.  Barbara  was  anticipating  a  visit 
later  in  San  Francisco  with  Ruth  Newcomb, 
and  expected  to  see  her  former  room-mate, 
Kathryn  Craig,  '18,  en  route  home. 

She  describes  Los  Angeles  as  a  wonderful 
city.  The  private  homes  are  so  spacious  and 
set  off  beautifully  by  an  abundance  of  foliage. 
The  roses  are  at  their  height  now,  climbing  up 
the  sides  of  houses  and  over  the  hedges.  The 
peach  trees  are  just  commencing  to  blossom 
The  mountains  are  the  background,  no  matter 
where  you  look,  and  Old  Baldy  is  so  pictur- 
esque in  its  cap  of  perpetual  snow. 

Miss  Edith  Collins  'writes  to  our  principal 
a  full  description  of  her  life  as  principal  of 
Pembroke  Hall  at  Hampton,  Virginia.  It  must 
be  very  gratifying  to  her  to  receive  such  kind 
appreciative  words  from  the  trustees  of  her 
new  school.  She  is  looking  forward  to  even  a 
more  successful  season  next  year.  With  her, 
the  jonquils  were  in  full  bloom,  mocking  birds 
singing  and  "roses,  roses  everywhere.''  She 
speaks  of  hearing  Mrs.  Wagner's  voice  over 
the  telephone,  for  our  Mrs.  Wagner  is  now 
the  guest  of  her  son,  Mr.  Sanford  Wagner,  at 
Norfolk,  Virginia. 

In  a  personal  note  to  Dr.  Winslow,  Doro- 
thea Africa,  '12,  tells  of  the. marriage  of  her 
cousin,  Isabel  Read,  to  Dr.  Oscar  Mireley,  a 
young  dentist  of  Huntington,  Pennsylvania. 
We  are  grateful  for  this  interesting  bit  of 
news  and  extend  our  congratulations  to  Isabel 
and  wish  very  sincerely  that  Dorothea  had  told 
us  more  about  her  dear  self. 

I.ucinda  Obermeyer,  '18,  writes  from'  the 
University  of  Chicago,  where  she  is  now  en- 
rolled. In  her  letter  to  Miss  Packard  she  de- 
clares "The  University  of  Chicago  is  not  an  in- 


stitution for  idling  away  time,  I  have  discov- 
ered, although  I  harbored  no  illusions  about  its 
being  'a  snap'  when  I  entered  last  fall.''  When 
we  notice  in  her  schedule  such  subjects  as  In- 
troduction to  the  Scientific  Study  of  Educa- 
tion, a  stiff  course  in  Physics,  General  Chemis- 
try, Qualitative  Analysis,  and  Political  Econ- 
omy, we  can  readily  understand  that  Lucinda 
is  a  busy  little  student,  but  this  doesn't  sur- 
prise us,  for  it  was  her  habit  here  to  attend  to 
business,  and  yet  she  plans  so  well  that  she  de- 
clares she  finds  time  for  many  pleasant  and 
profitable  good  times.  She  writes :  "I  see 
Dorothy  Adams,  Helen  Guertin  and  Ang  Lee 
quite  often.  We  always  exchange  our  bits  of 
news  about  Lasell.  I  am  longing  for  the  time 
when  we  shall  all  be  together  again.  One  of 
my  club  sisters  here  in  Chicago  is  the  daughter 
of  a  Lasell  girl,  and  the  girl  who  has  the  room 
next  to  mine  is  the  sister  of  a  Lasell  girl,  Helen 
Hardy  of  Adrian,  Michigan."  She  writes  also, 
"Barbara  McLellan  stopped  in  Chicago  on  her 
way  to  California.  We  staged  a  typical  Lasell 
greeting  right  in  the  Pullman  (as  I  met  her 
at  63d  St  Station),  and  it  was  because  we  did 
'remember  whose  children  we  were.'  I  really 
believe  the  other  passengers  sympathized  thor- 
oughly and  weren't  shocked  at  our  wild  em- 
brace. 

"I  take  plenty  of  time  for  exercise  and 
sleep,  blessed  good  habits  I  learned  at  Lasell. 
The  chimes  have  long  since  played  Alma  Mater 
so  I  must  stop,  although  I  am  not  half  run 
down.  How  I  am  looking  forward  to  June 
and  my  reunion  at  the  old  school  in  Auburn- 
dale!" 

Here's  good  news  for  the  Class  of  1907 :  Lil- 
ian Douglass  writes  from  the  Hotel  St.  Cath- 
erine, Santa  Catalina  Island,  California,  to 
Miss  Witherbee  that  she  is  planning  to  return 
to  Lasell  for  Commencement  season  and  has 
written  Irene  Sauter  Sanford,  '06,  to  join  her 
at  the  school.  She  and  Edith  Simonds  Ben- 
nett were  on  the  Island  for  an  outing.  By  the 
way  that  island  has  always  been  in  Edith's 
family  until  recently,  and  she  writes  now  that 
it  has  been  bought  by  Mr.  Wrigley  of  chew- 


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ing  gum  fame.  Lilian  gives  a  charming  de- 
scription of  Catalina.  In  Edith's  note  she  tells 
us  that  she  still  keeps  up  her  correspondence 
with  Edith  West,  who  has  long  since  married 
and  has  a  small  son.  Mary  Willett  '05,  is  also 
married  and  has  three  children,  I  helieve.  Sally 
Strong,  '06,  is  still  Sally  Strong.  Florence 
Kiper  married  five  or  six  years  ago.  We  evi- 
dently know  more  about  Florence  than  Edith 
does,  for  she  married  Jerome  N.  Frank,  a 
loyal  Harvard  graduate,  and  is  keeping  up  her 
literary  work.  Edith  speaks  of  her  own  dear 
little  nine-year-old  daughter.  We  find  it  diffi- 
cult to  realize  that  it  is  fourteen  years  since 
this  mother  was  at  Lasell. 

That  was  a  dear  letter  which  came  to  our 
preceptress  from  Dorothy  Stewart  Allen,  '17. 
She  regrets  not  having  written,  but  adds  :  "You 
can  guess  from  the  enclosed  picture  just  why  I 
have  been  so  busy."  Dorothy  enclosed  a  pic- 
ture of  herself  and  precious  little  Jean  Stewart 
Allen,  three  months  old.  We  easily  take  Dor- 
othy's word  for  it  that  she  is  "just  the  very 
bestest  baby  that  ever  lived."  She  is  as  good 
as  gold  and  full  of  fun  and  mischief  and  a 
great  comfort  to  her  adoring  daddy  and  moth- 
er. Professor  Allen  entered  the  service  short- 
ly after  their  marriage,  so  that  Dorothy  has 
spent  most  of  the  time  with  her  parents.  Her 
husband  is  now  doing  reconstruction  work 
among  the  disabled  soldiers  and  enjoys  his 
work  very  much.  "Just  before  I  left  home," 
she  adds,  "I  saw  Harriet  Morris,  '18,  and  she 
is  enjoying  life  at  the  Ohio  State  University.  I 
am  hoping  and  planning  to  come  to  Boston  this 
spring  to  introduce  Jean  to  her  relatives  and  to 
her  friends  at  Lasell.  Jean  is  rich  in  possess- 
ing three  great-grandmothers  and  one  great- 
grandfather." She  closed  with  "Remember  me 
to  the  different  teachers  for  I  think  of  my 
Lasell  friends  and  home  very  often." 

Friends  of  Miss  Florence  Jepperson  and 
there  are  many  of  them  at  Lasell,  whose  won- 
derful voice  inspired  us  at  Commencement 
time,  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  she  is  now  lo- 
cated in  New  York  City,  living  at  360  West 
123d  St.  We  hope  very  much  that  she  will 
take  time  to  "come  home"  for  we  all  would 
love  to  see  her. 


We  are  indeed  proud  of  Evelyn  Schmidt, 
'14.  A  recent  copy  of  the  Boston  Herald  has 
a  very  fine  notice  of  her  work  in  the  depart- 
ment of  Dental  Hygiene.  Evelyn  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  Forsyth  Dental  Infirmary  in 
Boston  in  1918,  and  is  spoken  of  by  the  Her- 
ald as  one  of  the  leading  graduates  of  last 
year's  class. 

"Taking  up"  with  the  suggestion  of  a  mem- 
ber of  the  "Class  of  1916,  our  Preceptress  is 
planning  to  take  a  party  of  girls  to  California 
this  coming  summer.  Any  old  girls  or  their 
friends  interested  kindly  write  to  Lasell  for 
full  particulars.  Itinerary  includes  Grand 
Canyon  of  Arizona,  automobile  tour  through 
Southern  California  and  Canadian  Rockies. 

Lasell  is  holding  in  very  constant  and  tender 
remembrance  at  this  time  our  dear  Winifred 
Whittlesey  Knowlton,  '12,  whose  husband  re- 
cently passed  away.  Some  of  us  remember  a 
,  brilliant  wedding  only  a  few  years  ago,  when 
Winifred  married  Mr.  W.  Clark  Knowlton  of 
Middletown.  In  the  tribute  which  appeared  in 
a  daily  paper  we  find  this  splendid  notice :  "He 
was  a  stalwart  and  upstanding  young  man  of 
the  finest  qualities  and  highest  character.  He 
was  of  strong  athletic  build  and  while  in  col- 
lege excelled  as  a  football  player.  At  the  same 
time,  he  ranked  high  in  his  studies  and  during 
his  course  became  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kap- 
pa. While  still  a  student  in  Amherst  he  was 
offered  a  position  in  the  well  known  Goodrich 
Rubber  Company  of  Akron,  Ohio,  and  as  soon 
as  he  graduated  he  began  his  career  with 
that  company."  This  personal  word  from  the 
vice-president  speaks  volumes:  "If  you  want 
to  make  a  success  in  life,  follow  Clark  Knowl- 
ton's  example."  Winifred  and  her  dear  little 
baby  daughter  have  returned  to  her  home  in 
Middletown. 

Cornelia  Evans  has  recently  enjoyed  a  visit 
from  her  father,  Dr.  Rice  Kemper  Evans, 
vice-consul  for  the  past  ten  years  at  Sheffield, 
England.  Dr.  Evans  brought  us  some  valu- 
able first-hand  information  concerning  the  po- 
litical situation  in  Great  Britain.  We  are  hop- 
ing before  his  return  to  his  post  that  the  entire 
school  may  have  the  privilege  of  hearing  him. 


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JOKES 


WANTED 


New  "rep"  for  Lucas. 

Yellow  notes  for  Tommy. 

Letters  for  "Mini"  White. 

Junior  for  Ethel  Ramage. 

Milkman  for  Greene  and  Westervelt. 

An  admirer  for  Miss  Carlisle. 

Lockers  for  Senior  Room. 

Leash  for  theatre  parties. 

Powder  puff  for  the  men's  dressing  room. 

At  7.30,  more  telephone  booths  for  A^ance. 

Margie  Baer :     "Say,  I'm  a  ventriloquist.     I 

can  throw  my  voice." 

Miss  Goodrich:    "Really!  prove  it.'' 
Margie  Baer :     "I  can  stand  here  and  sing 

Over  There," 

First  Pupil :  "Did  you  know  that  Caesar 
married  an  Irishwoman? 

Second  Pupil :    "Did  he?"' 

First  Pupil :  "Yes,  when  he  came  to  the 
Rhine,  he  proposed  to  Bridge-it." — Ex. 

K.  Tufts  and  Babe:  "Please,  Miss  Austin, 
slip  us  a  slip  so  we  can  slip  to  Waltham." 

Teacher :  "How  many  days  are  there  in  a 
year  ?" 

"Pupil :  "325,  for  40  are  lent  and  never  re- 
turned."— Ex. 

"I  think  there's  something  really  dove-like 
about  her." 

"You  don't  mean  it?" 

"Yes,   she   is  pigeon-toedr" — Ex. 

Didn't  you  if  girls  be  wouldn't  you  this  read 
and  curious  be  would  you  that  knew  we. 


HOPELESS 


It  kept  her  awake  nights.  Often  she  got  up 
at  dawn  to  try  it  again — once  more.  A  dozen 
times  during  the  day  the  thought  troubled  her. 
She  couldn't  eat  her  meals  in  peace.    The  sub- 


ways and  surface  cars  were  especially  disturb- 
ing. Every  time  she  looked  in  the  face  of  a 
modish  young  girl  she  became  excited,  resolv- 
ing inwardly  to  make  another  attempt. 

At  the  end  of  six  months  she  gave  it  up. 
She  couldn't  wear  her  hair  over  her  ears ;  it 
made  her  look  a  freak. 


OUR   PERIODICALS 


Adventure — James    and   Heath. 

All- Around — Bobbed  Hair. 

Cosmopolitan — What  naughty  girls  read  in 
study  hour. 

Electrical  Experimenter — H.  O'Brien. 

Everybody's — The  right  to  complain    about 
marks. 

Good  Housekeeping — Rooms  in  Main. 

Independent — Pete  Sprague. 

Judge— Miss  Wright. 

Outing — Saturday      morning 
Chapel. 

Outlook — Our  Easter  vacation. 

Public  Opinion — What  the  girls  think. 

Modern  Priscilla — 

Review  of  Reviews — Miss  Lindsay. 

Vanity  Fair — Carl  Kuhn. 

Vogue — Virgie  Smith. 


instead     of 


Seniors  were  born  for  great  things, 

Juniors  were  born  for  small ; 
But  it  is  not  recorded 

Why  the  other  classes  were  born  at  all. 


A  group  of  housewives  were  having  tea  to- 
gether and  talking  over  the  events  of  the  day. 
The  question  under  discussion  was  as  to  who 
had  done  most  to  win  the  war.  Some  said 
Haig,  others  Beatty,  others  Foch. 

At  last  one  woman  broke  in. 

"I  don't  know  who's  done  most  to  win  the 
war,"  said  she,  "but  I  know  who's  been  most 
talked  about." 

"Who's  that?"  came  a  chorus. 

"Why,  this  'ere  Alice  Lorraine  that  the 
French  and  Germans  came  to  blows  over." 
—Ex. 


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A  "Ladd,"  named  James,  had  been  on  a 
hunting  "Chase"  in  the  "Greene"  "Hills"  of 
New  England.  It  was  a  "Porgie"  night  and  the 
tired  boy  groped  his  way  down  "West" 
"Street"  fairly  "Wardl(e)"ing  under  his  load 
of  game.  On  his  back  he  carried  a  "Kuhn" 
and  a  large  "Brown"  "Baer"  skin.  His  thoughts 
wandered  back  to  his  camping  trip  and  he 
trudged  along  thinking  of  the  clear  "White" 
pebbled  "Brook(s)"  by  whose  side  he  had 
"Cook"ed  and  "Eaton"  his  fish  and  game. 

He  had  turned  down  the  "Rhoad"e  leading 
to  his  home  when  the  shouts  of  "Shekerjian". 
"Skinner"  met  his  ears.  He  was  very  much 
frightened  at  the  thought  of  this  fierce 
"Quarle"  (s)  or  murder  as  he  supposed  it  to  be, 
from  the  sounds  ;  but  something  inside  of  him 
kept  whispering,  "Be-a-man."  Just  as  he  sum- 
moned his  courage  to  investigate  a  "Bell" 
sounded  and  a  patrol  wagon  stopped  at  the 
scene  of  the  commotion.  The  "Crooks"  were 
caught.  On  inquiring  "James"  found  that  they 
were  the  ones  who  had  been  "Robbin(s)"  the 
"Fish"  markets  night  after  night  and  that  the 
wild  cries  he  had  heard  were  merely  exclama- 
tions of  these  men  who  had,  that  very  night, 
stolen  a  large  "Bass." 

It  was  then  so  late  when  the  "Young"  fel- 
low arrived  home  that  he  decided  not  to  tell 
of  his  adventures  until  the  "Morrow." 


THE  POSTMAN  AND  HIS  VALENTINE 

(  Continued  from  page  8) 
what  effect  this   one  would  have  on  the  old 
gentleman. 

"Oh,  mamma,  here's  the  postman !"  greeted 
me  at  the  next  door.  A  little  girl  of  about 
eight  years  rushed  out  and  demanded  breath- 
lessly if  I  had  any  valentines  for  her.  To  her 
great  delight  I  handed  her  half  a  dozen  or 
more  envelopes  of  various  sizes  and  shapes, 
besides  a  box  containing,  perhaps,  an  assort- 
ment of  Haven's  chocolates  and  bonbons. 
Then  to  my  great  surprise,  she  handed  me 
several  packages  saying,  "One  is  for  you,  Mr. 
Gardner,  and  the  others  are  for  your  little 
girls,"   and,    nodding   brightly,      she      tripped 


gaily  up  the   steps   and   disappeared   into   the 
house. 

Up  one  street  and  down  another,  I  trudged, 
delivering  mail  here  and  there,  and  occasion- 
all)'  to  my  great  surprise,  getting  valentines  in 
return,  sometimes  for  myself,  but  mostly  for 
my  twin  girlies  at  home.  Finally,  somewhat 
weary,  but  happy-hearted,  I  entered  my  own 
doorway  and  handed  over  my  last  mail  for 
that  day  to  my  two  little  daughters.  They 
seized  it  eagerly,  and  with  cries  of  joy  and  sur- 
prise exclaimed  over  first  one  and  then  an- 
other of  the  dainty  valentines.  Surely  the 
day  had  been  satisfactory.  I  was  tired,  it  was 
true,  but  what  was  weariness  compared  to  my 
happiness  as  postman  on  St.  Valentine's  Day. 

T.  Swan. 


A  Linen  Store 
for  Over   100  Years 


At  all   times,  you  can  most  adequately  satisfy  at  "The 
Boston  Linen  Stores"  all  your  needs  in 


Linens 

Towels 

Sheets  and  Cases 

Blankets 

Handkerchiefs 

Veilings 


Wash  Goods 
White  Goods 
Laces 
Neckwear 
Art  Embroideries 
Yarns  and  Knit 
Goods 


Newness,  distinctiveness,  dependable  quality  and  moderate 

price  characterize  every  purchase 

Mail  Orders  Receive  Careful  Attention 

T.  D.  Whitney  Company 

West  Street  BOSTON         Temple  Place 


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EXCHANGES 


We  hereby  acknowledge,  with  thanks  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  following  exchanges  : 

The  Aegis — Beverly,  Mass. 

Hotchkiss  Literary  Monthly — Lakeville, 
Conn. 

Poly  Life — Baltimore,  Md. 

The  Cue — Albany  Academy,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

The  Roman — Rome,  Georgia. 

The  Shucis — Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Ferry  Tales — Lake  Forrest,  111. 

The  Orange — White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

The  World— St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Lai  Bagh  Chronicle — Lucknow,  India. 

Ye  Gossyp — The  Scudder  School,  New  York 
City. 

The  Radnorite — Wayne,  Pa. 

The  High  School  News — Beaumont,  Texas. 

The  Gleam — St.  Paul,  Minn. 

The  Artesan — Bridgeport,  Conn. 

The  Villa  Marian — Immaculata,  Penn. 

The  Attic — Passaic,  N.  J. 

The  Herald — Holyoke,  Mass. 

The  Columbian — Columbia,  S.  C. 

The  Quill— New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 

The  Optimist— Newark,  N.  J. 

Lazvrence  High  School  Bulletin — Lawrence, 
Mass. 

The  Amygdaloid — Houghton,  Mich. 

The  Dalhousie  Gazette — Halifax; N.  S. 

The  Brimmer  School  Magazine — Boston, 
Mass. 

The  Early  Trainer — Lawrence,  Mass. 

Philomath — Framington,  Mass. 

High  School  Rcviezv — Lowell,  Mass. 

The  Goldenrod — Wayne,  Nebraska. 

The  Tattler — Waterloo,  N.  Y. 

The  A  star—  Newark,  N.  J. 

The  Blue  Bird— New  York  City. 

The  Advance — Salem,  Mass. 

The  Acropolis,  Newark,  N.  J. 

The  Dickinson  Union — Williamsport,  Penn. 

The  Sunnyside — Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 

The  Lion — La  Grange,  111. 

The  Exponent — Greenfield,  Mass. 

The  Sagamore — Brookline,  Mass. 


Alpha— New  Bedford,  Mass. 

The  Academy  Monthly — Philadelphia,  Penn. 


Comments 


Poly  Life — Baltimore,  Md. 

Your  stories  are  exceptionally  good  and 
your  departments  are  well  spaced.  Only  we 
are  not  Paly  Life  but  Poly  Life. 

Shucis — Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Lasell  Leaves.  Here  is  our  old  friend  with 
the  same  old  interesting  magazine.  The  only 
department  your  paper  lacks  is  an     exchange. 

The  High  School  News — Beaumont,  Texas. 

Lasell  Leaves.  Your  cover  design  is  very 
attractive,  and  you  are  to  be  complimented  on 
your  Literary  Department.  A-Vhere  is  your 
Exchange  Department?  Why  not  have  a  few 
more  jokes? 

Lai  Bagh  Chronicle — Lucknow,  India. 

Lasell  Leaves.  A  good  paper ;  we  like  your 
"jokes." 


Exchange 

The  Aegis — Beverly,  Mass.:  A  heavier  cover 
would  make  your  paper  more  attractive ! 

Hotchkiss  Literary  Monthly — Lakeville, 
Conn. :  Your  magazine  contains  some  clever 
stories  and  your  cuts  are  clear. 

Poly  Life — Baltimore,  Md. :  Apologies.  Poly 
now  and  forever. 

The  Cue — Albany  Academy,  Albany,  N.  Y. : 
We  think  your  exchange  section  very  clever 
and  an  inducement  for  better  work  and  more 
competition. 

The  Roman — Rome,  Georgia :  You  have  a 
well  organized  pamphlet.  We  like  the 
abundance  of  jokes  and  absence  of  adver- 
tisement. 

The  Shucis — Schenectady,  N.  Y. :  A  good 
idea  of  your  school  activities  is  gained, 
but  more  pictures  would  add  to  the  interest. 

Ferry  Tales — Lake  Forest,  Illinois :  One  of 
our  most  attractive  exchanges. 

The  Orange — White  Plains,  N.  Y. :  Where 
are  your  snapshots  ? 


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Pure,  delicious, 

wholesome 

A  well  made  cup  of 

BAKER'S  COCOA 

is  a  large  part  or  a 
oood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition,  very  little 
waste,  and  its  use 
saves  otker  roods. 

TAADE  MAFtH  Oft  fl/f/?y  PACrtAGS 

WLTER  BAKER&  CO.  Ltd. 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

2  -5-7-9  Friend  Street 
12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phones  Richmond  202-203-3087 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese.  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE.  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 


A  FRIEND 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond    1729 


TELEPHONES 
Richmond   883,  885 


RUDOLF  STOLAR 


R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls   3    and    5    New    Faneuil    Hall    Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 


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3xw  nnt  prompt  Mtumj. 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 

To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are   synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT.    Its    flexibility,  permitting  free   action 
to    the    muscles    of    the     foot,     tends  to    their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics   for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 

Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 

AND 

Summer  iffitrs 

Women's  Coats  -  Burberrys  -  London 
Make 

Leather  Jackets  in  varied  colors 
and  styles 

383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 

Established  1842                                                        Incorporated  1910 
Capital   paid   in  $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.                       H.   F.   RICE,    Vice-Pres. 
C.  H.  Cumming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 

JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 

^z*^s*            J 

fenim$$0&$&&Q)        =J&zx&i&ilW 

Ms.          ^^/^         ^^^    \s* 

Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken   from  our  large  assortment    of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the   purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles   needed   without    being    obliged    to    purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.     Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.    Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,   McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 

Telephone   Richmond    1647,     164b1 
ALBERT    P.' SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese   and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 

INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most    particular   trade.     We    sell    a    Paint    and    Varnish    for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.     Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in   the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.     An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 

Store  77-79  Sudbury  St.                                     Boston.  Mass. 

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New  Spring  Hats 

Reflecting  the  latest  note  in 
authentic  fashions 

New  Sailors     Watteau  Style 
Smart  Close-Fitting  Turbans 

Beautiful  Flower-Trimmed  Hats 

$7.50  to  $15.00 


C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 
BOSTON,  MASS. 


Shop 
By  Mail 


Telephone 
Beach  3460 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model   in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.   Also  in   Black  or  Brown 

Calf    with    Buckskin    Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


fc  f .  fnUatttar  &  fflo. 

Misses'     and     Young    Ladies' 
Suits,     Coats     and     Dr,esses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  Wear 

at  Popular  Prices 

School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 

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AUBURNDALE 


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Boston 


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BEACH   1561 

PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

'That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  da})" 

The  Boston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 
BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specialty 


ax  Brothers 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

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Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


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FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 

PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins      -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and    Mandolins 
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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

Hash M.   Williams  5 

Sandy  .  . : Doris    Whitney  6 

Unexpected  Guests K-  Tufts  t 

EDITORIAL    9 

LOCALS  10 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES  13 

PERSONAL 14 

JOKES 18 

EXCHANGES    I9 

THE    SUPPLEMENT 20 


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HASH 

Hash  was  "just  plain  dog."  People  often 
asked,  "What  kind  of  a  dog  is  he  ?"  Where- 
upon I  always  answered  "I  don't  know."  I 
have  heard  many  opinions  expressed  as  to  his 
pedigree,  no  two  of  which  agreed.  He  looked 
as  if,  somewhere  far  back  in  his  ancestry, 
there  might  have  been  an  Irish  Terrier,  but 
there  had  evidently  been  so  many  other  varie- 
ties since  then  that  it  was  difficult  to  call  him 
anything  expressive  of  all  the  different  kinds 
of  dogs  constituting  his  ancestry.  Hence  he 
received  the  undignified  but  suitable  name  of 
"Hash." 

I  first  found  Hash  on  a  cold  winter's  night 
several  years  ago  when  I  was  returning  home 
from  a  party.  As  I  was  just  going  up  the 
steps,  I  heard  a  whimper.  Looking  around 
the  piazza  I  saw,  curled  up  in  a  sheltered 
corner,  a  little  dog.  As  I  came  near,  he  stag- 
gered to  his  feet  and  walked  toward  me.  I 
could  see  that  he  was  nothing  more  than  a 
puppy.  He  was  shivering  so  with  the  cold 
that  I  took  him  into  the  house  and  gave  him 
some  milk.  Then  I  carried  him  down  cellar 
and  fixed  up  a  little  bed  of  old  burlap  bags 
near  the  furnace. 

The  next  morning  I  rose  early  and  went 
down  to  see  what  my  tramp  dog  really  looked 
like.  He  had,  not  a  pretty  brown  coat,  but 
scraggly  hair  of  a  yellowish  color  and  he  was 
—oh !  so  dirty.  But  his  short  tail  beat  so  un- 
ceasingly on  the  cellar  floor,  and  his  earnest 
eyes  looked  at  me  so  piteously  that  I   felt  I 


must  keep  him,  at  least  till  warmer  weather. 
After  giving  him  a  bath  and  slicking  him  up 
the  best  I  could,  I  took  him  upstairs  where  the 
rest  of  the  family  were.  As  I  came  in  leading 
the  dog,  they  said  nothing  for  him;  neither 
did  they  say  anything  against  him  and  since 
"silence  gives  consent,"  I  judged  the  dog  was 
accepted,  at  least  temporarily.  Having  thus 
made  some  progress,  I  then  asked  what  would 
be  a  good  name  for  this  member  of  the  house- 
hold. My  father,  quite  amused,  for  a  minute 
just  sat  looking  at  the  mongrel.  Then  he 
looked  up  and  said,  "Hash !"  Young  though  I 
was,  I  realized  the  appropriateness  of  this 
name.  So  my  new  found  treasure  was 
christened  "Hash."  I  grew  more  and  more 
attached  to  Hash,  who,  as  some  puppies  will, 
soon  became  a  good-sized  dog.  Whenever  I 
was  at  home  we  were  together  constantly. 

One  summer,  .when  I  was  about  twelve 
years  old,  I  was  sent  to  one  of  the  neighbors 
on  an  important  errand.  This  was  nothing 
less  than  to  take  some  money  which  father 
owed  for  some  poultry.  The  nearest  way  to 
reach  this  place,  which  was  about  a  mile  dis- 
tant from  our  country  home,  was  to  go 
through  the  fields  and  along  a  railroad  bridge 
over  the  river.  I  walked  joyously  along,  ac- 
companied of  course  by  Hash.  Just  before 
I  came  to  the  railroad  bridge  I  decided  that  I 
wished  to  see  how  much  money  my  people  had 
placed  in  my  hands;  so  I  took  it  out  of  the 
envelope  and  began  to  count  it. 

Suddenly  I  heard  a  step  behind  me.  Glanc- 
ing nervously  back,  I  saw,  a  few  yards  away, 


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an  ugly  looking,  ragged  man,  whoSe  eyes,  too, 
were  fastened  on  the  bills  I  held  in  my  hand. 
I  thrust  the  money  into  my  pocket  and  began 
to  run.  The  steps  of  the  tramp  were  gaining 
on  me,  but  I  kept  on  just  as  fast  as  my  fright- 
ened legs  would  carry  me.  As  I  neared  the 
railroad  bridge  I  turned.  There  was  Hash 
with  his  teeth  fastened  into  the  leg  of  the 
tramp.  I  turned  again  and  ran  to  the  end  of 
the  bridge.  When  I  thought  myself  safe  I 
stopped  to  watch  the  tramp  and  Hash.  Poor 
Hash,  I  could  tell  that  he  was  losing  his  grip. 
Yes,  to  my  horror  I  saw  the  tramp  kick  him 
off  of  the  bridge  into  the  water. 

I  was  now  so  near  the  house  that  the  tramp 
did  not  dare  to  follow  me.  I  went  on  and 
delivered  the  money  safely,  but  I  never  saw 
Hash  again.  He  must  have  been  stunned  by 
the  kick  and  therefore  was  not  able  to  save 
himself.  Often  now  I  wish  that  I  had  given 
to  such  a  faithful  and  brave  protector  a  better 
name  than  just  plain  "Hash." 

M.  Williams. 


TO  SPRING 


When  Winter's  gloom  has  passed  away, 
And  light  warm  breezes  come  to  stay, 
When  bluebirds  chirp  and  robins  sing, 
We  feel  a  thrill — and  know  'tis  Spring. 

When  brooklets  babble  loud  and  clear 
No  longer  heavy  snows  we  fear, 
We  know  the  message  which  they  bring; 
Wake  up !     Prepare  to  greet  the  Spring ! 

When  mossy  grass  runs  'long  the  rocks, 
And  herdsmen  homeward  drive  their  flocks, 
When  plants  their  little  shoots  upfling, 
We're  conscious  of  the  dawn  of  Spring. 

When  hill  and  dale  are  decked  in  green 
And  all  the  landscape's  one  bright  scene. 
When  bird  notes  thru  the  thickets  ring 
We  know  'tis  surely,  surely  Spring ! 

G.  M.  Burnet. 


SANDY 

It  was  indeed  a  happy  day  for  all  the  people 
in  the  little  village  of  Peterburn  on  the  western 
coast  of  Scotland ;  but  for  Sandy  and  Lucy  it 
was  far  happier  than  for  any  others — or  so 
they  felt.  Their  engagement  had  just  been 
announced.  All  their  village  accpiaintances, 
friends,  and  relatives  were  present  at  the  feast, 
enjoying  the  merry  celebration.  When  the 
meal  was  over  and  they  were  about  to  begin 
the  sports  of  the  afternoon,  a  young  man, 
dressed  in  uniform,  came  cantering  up  the 
lane.  Reaching  the  gathering,  he  dismounted, 
saluted,  and  announced,  "All  the  lads  of 
Peterburn  have  been  called  to  arms,  and  must 
report  at  the  square  within  twenty-four 
hours." 

Then  he  again  saluted,  remounted  his  horse, 
and  was  off,  leaving  the  people,  but  just  now 
so  content  and  happy,  in  great  confusion. 
Some  ran  hither  and  thither,  bidding  farewell 
to  the  young  lads  who  were  present ;  some 
stood  quietly  expressing  their  deepest  sym- 
pathy to  Sandy  and  Lucy ;  and  others  sought 
to  comfort  the  alarmed  parents. 

On  the  following  day  at  the  end  of  the 
twenty-four  hours,  all  the  villagers  went  down 
to  see  their  sons,  husbands,  or  sweethearts  off. 
The  occasion  was  a  very  solemn  one,  for  all 
knew  that  for  some  of  those  stalwart  lads  this 
was  the  last  time  they  would  look  upon  their 
home  and  friends. 

Sandy  was  sent  first  to  England  and  from 
there  directly  to  France,  where  he  was  put  into 
active  service  in  the  trenches.  Such  a  jolly, 
kind-hearted  young  lad  he  was  that  all  liked 
him.  Even  the  officers  soon  came  to  admire 
him  for  his  spirit  and  bravery.  Always  ready 
to  obey  and  to  respond  whenever  voluntary 
service  was  called  for,  he  was  such  stuff  as 
the  finest  soldiers  are  made  of.  Very  little 
time  to  himself  he  had,  of  course,  but  when 
he  did,  he  always  wrote  to  Lucy,  waiting  so 
patiently  over  the  seas  back  in  Peterburn. 
Thus  although  neither  received  many  letters, 
precious  messages  came  often  enough  to  give 


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each  the  information  that  the  other  was  safe. 

At  last  came  a  day  when  a  scouting  party 
was  needed,  but  the  service  was  purely  volun- 
tary, as  the  task  was  extremely  difficult  and 
dangerous  and  could  be  done  at  night  only. 
The  necessary  number  was  soon  enrolled, 
however,  as  only  six  were  needed  and  there 
were  plenty  of  volunteers.  After  the  requisite 
instruction  concerning  the  work  in  hand  was 
given,  the  men  were  allowed  to  go  into  rest 
billets  until  ten-thirty  o'clock  that  nijht. 

At  a  quarter  after  the  hour  the  party,  which 
included  Sandy,  was  ready  to  start,  each  ap- 
parently in  a  pensive  mood,  thinking  perhaps 
of  those  whom  he  might  never  see  again.  A 
little  later  they  went  "over  the  top,"  all  in  the 
best  spirits.  There  was  no  set-back  and  they 
had  crept  half  way  across  "No  Man's  Land" 
when  suddenly  a  "star  light"  burst  just  above 
and  behind  them,  giving  to  the  Boche  a 
sharply  cut  silhouette  of  that  one  in  the  party 
who  alone  had  not  fallen  to  the  ground  quickly 
enough.  There  immediately  followed  a  zip, 
a  flash  of  light.  Then  a  shrapnel  shell  burst 
right  in  their  midst. 

When  Sandy  regained  consciousness,  it  was 
still  dark.  Not  knowing  how  long  he  had  been 
unconscious,  he  decided  to  wait  until  day- 
break before  endeavoring  to  find  his  com- 
rades. For  hours  he  lay  there  ;  still  there  was 
no  sign  of  dawn.  He  now  began  to  feel  un- 
easy ;  exceedingly  anxious  to  find  the  other 
members  of  the  party,  he  crawled  around  on 
hands  and  knees  keeping  as  close  to  the  ground 
as  possible.  In  a  short  time  he  touched  one 
of  them.  Whereupon  he  spoke  in  a  very  low 
tone,  but  received  no  answer.  The  man  was 
dead !  Sandy  continued  his  search  for  the 
others,  but  in  vain.  Fully  six  hours  had 
passed  since  he  had  regained  consciousness 
and  yet  no  beam  of  light  was  visible ;  every- 
thing was  in  black  darkness.  He  lay  for  a 
moment  in  deep  thought.  Then  came  a  hor- 
rible idea,  which  strengthened  the  longer  he 
lay  there  in  this  pitchy  blackness.  He  was 
blind  !  Poor  Sandy  !  out  in  "No  Man's  Land" 
blind  and  without  any  idea  of  direction  !  Thus 
trapped,   he   did  the  only  thing  possible ;  he 


crept    along   taking   the   chances    of    arriving 
where  he  wished  to  be. 

At  first  he  groped  ahead  in  vain,  but  sud- 
denly, on  reaching  out  his  hand,  he  struck  an 
iron  post.  At  once  he  realized  that  he  had 
taken  just  the  wrong  direction  and  had  reached 
the  Boche  lines.  He  now  considered  his  life 
as  good  as  lost ;  but  he  knew  at  least  in  which 
direction  he  must  go.  If  only  he  could  some- 
how manage  to  tell  whether  it  was  night  or 
day,  he  could  perhaps  make  a  safe  get-away. 
To  take  the  chances  was  again  the  only  thing 
possible ;  so  he  set  out  on  his  return  journey. 
This  time  he  was  safe,  as  the  darkness  of 
night  sheltered  him,  though  he  did  not  know 
it.  After  a  painful  struggle  he  reached  at 
last  the  British  line,  but  in  so  exhausted  a 
condition  that  he  lost  all  consciousness  as  soon 
as  the  stress  under  which  he  had  been  strug- 
gling was  relieved. 

Regaining  consciousness,  he  found  himself 
in  one  of  the  French  hospitals.  Here  he 
underwent  an  operation  on  his  eyes.  Within 
three  weeks  he  so  far  regained  his  strength  as 
to  be  able  to  go  back  to  England  to  his  great 
delight.  In  England  he  was  subjected  to  yet 
another  operation  on  his  eyes  at  the  hands  of 
a  famous  surgeon.  It  was  a  very  difficult  one 
and  the  doctor  was  for  some  time  uncertain 
whether  it  would  prove  successful.  At  the 
end  of  ten  days,  the  bandage  was  removed — 
Sandy  could  see ! 

A  few  days  later  he  received  a  furlough  of 
a  month,  and  besides  this  a  medal  for  bravery 
from  the  English  Government.  How  proud  he 
was ! 

His  one  thought  now  was  to  get  back  to  old 
Peterburn.  There  he  and  Lucy  were  married, 
and  had  a  memorably  happy  three  weeks  to- 
gether before  Sandy  had  again  to  return  to 
trench  duty. 

Doris   Whitney. 


UNEXPECTED  GUESTS 


When  Tom  Marsh  married  Sallie  Freeman 
many  people  remarked  that  his  courage  must 


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have  been  good.  Sallie  was  just  full  of  fun 
but  so  unsettled  and  such  a  gad-about. 

The  Marshes  took  a  small  house  in  one  of 
New  York's  most  popular  commuting  towns. 
In  a  few  days  almost  all  of  Sallie's  neighbors 
were  talking  about  how  slovenly  her  house 
looked.  No  one  ever  saw  her  working. 
While  her  neighbors  were  cleaning,  she  would 
sit  on  her  porch,  rocking  and  reading.  While 
her  neighbors  were  cooking,  she  would  be  out 
riding  in  the  little  car  her  husband  had  given 
her  for  a  wedding  present. 

One  morning  after  Tom  had  gone,  Sallie 
stacked  the  dishes  in  the  sink,  called  her  friend 
Helen  Baker  on  the  telephone  and  arranged 
for  an  all  day  trip  to  Long  Beach.  It  was 
almost  six  o'clock  before  she  returned  home. 
She  went  upstairs  to  change  her  dress.  In 
order  to  find  what  she  needed,  she  stopped  to 
pick  up  the  untidy  room  and  make  the  bed. 
Coming  down  stairs  a  half  hour  later,  she 
happened  to  look  down  the  street.  To  her 
consternation  she  saw  Tom  and  his  two 
maiden  aunts,  who  were  all  the  time  saying 
such  nasty  things  about  her.  Now  she  knew 
they  were  coming  to  see  how  she  kept' house. 
Horrors !  What  could  she  do.  Hastily  she 
gathered  up  some  scattered  papers  and  maga- 
zines, took  her  handkerchief  out  and  dusted 
as  best  she  could  the  living  room  and  then 
hustled  for  the  kitchen  to  see  what  the 
prospects  for  dinner  might  be.  A  hurried 
glance  revealed  a  small  can  of  lobster,  a  quart 
of  milk,  half  a  pint  of  cream,  a  dish  of  cold 
peas,  another  dish  containing  carrots,  some 
tea  she  had  forgotten  to  take  on  her  picnic, 
half  a  loaf  of  stale  bread  and  a  box  of  straw- 
berries. These  latter  were  rather  crushed  as 
she  had  put  a  box  of  soap  on  them  and  for- 
gotten all  about  it  until  she  arrived  home. 

By  the  time  Sallie  had  looked  over  her  sup- 
plies and  seen  what  a  dreadful  fix  she  was  in, 
Tom  called  her.  She  went  in,  kissed  the 
aunts  dutifully,  told  them  how  glad  she  was 
to  see  them  and  took  them  to  her  guest  room  to 
fix  their  hair.  Warning  Tom  to  keep  them  on 
the  porch,   she   then  flew   distractedly  to  the 


kitchen.  Lobster  salad ! — but  the  one  can 
wasn't  enough  for  four.  Creamed  lobster  on 
toast !-  —but  there  wasn't  enough  bread. 

Just  then  she  glanced  out  of  her  window 
and  saw  her  next  door  neighbor,  Mrs.  Mat- 
thews, putting  out  her  milk  bottles.  She 
beckoned  to  her.  Mrs.  Matthews  came  at  once 
for  she  saw  her  distressed  looks  and  as  she 
had  noticed  the  two  women  come  in  with  Mr. 
Marsh,  she  rather  suspected  a  domestic  dif- 
ficulty. 

"Oh,  dear  Mrs.  Matthews,  what  shall  I  do? 
All  I  have  is  before  you  on  the  table  anc 
Tom's  two  maiden  aunts  are  here  and  they 
have  always  said  I  would  keep  Tom  back  in 
his  work  and  now  when  they  see  my  house- 
keeping, they'll " 

"Now,  dearie,  don't  worry,  and  above  all 
don't  cry,  as  nothing  would  please  those  wom- 
en better  than  to  see  red  eyes." 

"But  my  bread  is  all  dry  and  I've  not 
enough  of  lobster  or  anything." 

"Well  now,  let's  plan  your  supper.  I  guess 
we  can  have  creamed  lobster  with  carrots  and 
peas  in  the  sauce.  I'll  mix  some  emergency 
biscuits,  and  for  dessert — those  strawberries 
have  seen  better  days,  but  we'll  have  a  short- 
cake. I'll  make  enough  biscuits  so  we  can 
use  part  of  them  for  the  shortcake,  since  we 
haven't  any  flaky  crust  or  fresh  butter  cake. 
Now  you  make  a  cream  sauce  while  I  mix 
my  biscuits.  You  start  after  that  to  whip 
some  cream,  then  I'll  finish  it  while  you  set 
the  table.  After  that  go  in  and  sit  down  for 
ten  minutes.     By  that  time  I'll  be  ready." 

Twenty  minutes  of  swift  work  followed. 
Then  Sallie  exclaimed,  "O  I  can't  thank  you 
enough.     You've — " 

"Never  mind  now  about  me.  Powder  your 
nose  and  go  to  your  aunts." 

The  supper  was  a  success.  The  younger  of 
the  aunts  even  asked  for  the  recipe  for  the 
creamed  lobster.  After  that  Sallie  and  Mrs. 
Matthew  became  fast  friends.  Sallie  gave 
her  busy  neighbor  many  outings  and  she,  in 
turn,  showed  Sallie  how  to  keep  her  house 
{Continued  on  page  9) 


The  prize  in  the  short  story  contest  has 
been  awarded  to  Concepcion  Aguirre  whose 
story,  Alma,  will  be  printed  in  our  next  issue. 
The  committee  wishes  to  give  honorable  men- 
tion to  Marion  Williams,  Katherine  Tufts  and 
Lillian  Fontaine  for  their  stories,  and  to  thank 
all  who  were  interested  enough  to  help  in  this 
plan. 

With  tennis,  baseball,  canoeing,  and  hiking 
to  take  part  in,  we  certainly  should  be  a  happy 
group  of  girls.  Every  girl  can  share  in  one 
of  these  four  things  and  many  can  enjoy  more 
than  one. 

The  tennis  courts  are  being  used  almost 
constantly.  We  are  all  looking  forward  to 
the  tournament,  which  comes  soon.  Are  you 
going  to  represent  your  class  ?  Which  class 
is  to  have  the  honor  of  supporting  the  winner  ? 
Think  these  questions  over  for  they  are  con- 
stantly being  asked. 

Canoeing — many  girls  only  sigh  and  look 
happy  when  it  is  mentioned ;  the  girls  who  are 
out  for  crew  only  sigh  and  look  tired.  Yet  not 
one  of  them  would  miss  a  practise !  Every 
one  is  working  her  hardest  preparing  for  the 
races.  The  class  of  1919  won  the  race  last 
year.     Who  is  to  be  the  winner  this  June? 

The  spirit  already  shown  in  athletic  con- 
tests has  been  one  of  which  we  might  well  be 
proud.  Let  us  not  fall  down  at  this  stage  of 
the  game.  Remember  that  a  good  loser  is  a 
person  worth  while. 


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trim  and  her  table  well-supplied  and  still  have 
some  leisure  for  a  good  time. 

Sallie  made  a  resolve  never  to  leave  her 
house  in  disorder  or  to  go  out  before  she  had 
planned  her  meals  with  enough  on  hand  for 
unexpected  guests.  This  resolution  she  kept 
— sometimes. 

Now  if  any  of  you  who  hear  this  tale  get 
caught  in  the  same  way  with  only  one  can  of 
lobster  or  crab  meat,  try  creaming  it  and  add- 
ing such  finely  chopped  vegetables  as  you  are 
lucky  enough  to  have  left  over. 

K.  Tufts. 


The  class  of  1920  is  very  proud  of  its  re- 
cently elected  honorary  member,  Ex-President 
Taft.  In  his  letter  to  Carolie  Abrams,  the 
class  president,  Mr.  Taft  is  gracious  enough 
to  say  that  he  counts  this  election  as  a  great 
honor. 

On  April  12,  the  Juniors  gave  their  an- 
nual party  to  the  Seniors.  At  six  o'clock, 
thirty  youths  from  the  Junior  Class  called  for 
the  Senior  girls,  and  escorted  them  to  Wood- 
land Park  hotel.  After  registering  they  went 
to  the  reception  room  where  they  were  re- 
ceived by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow.  Then  they 
were  called  to  the  dining  room. ,  This  was 
very  prettily  decorated  with  blue  and  black, 
the  Junior  class  colors.  The  dinner  was  served 
in  cabaret  fashion.  Between  the  courses  the 
Misses  Nicholson,  Heath,  James,  Rice  and 
Rogers  danced.  There  was  also  a  short  negro 
dialogue  given  by  the  Misses  Davidson,  Bal- 
com  and  Florence.  Excellent  music  was  fur- 
nished by  a  three-piece  orchestra. 

On  Friday,  April  25,  every  one  had  a  chance 
to  see  the  Parade  of  the  26th  Division  in  Bos- 
ton, for  good  seats  on  one  of  the  grandstands 
had  been  secured.  In  spite  of  the  intense  cold, 
many  girls  took  the  opportunity  of  sharing  in 
this  remarkable  experience. 

On  April  1  Miss  Roaback,  one  of  the 
traveling  secretaries  for  the  Methodist  Home 
Missionary   Society,  gave  a  vivid  account  of 


some  of  her  visits  among  the  mission  schools 
of  the  East  and  South.  She  told  the  girls  in 
particular  of  those  less  fortunate,  but  eager 
young  people  who  can  accomplish  so  much 
good  if  given  a  chance  for  a  Christian  educa- 
tion. Even  a  small  sum  contributed  by  the 
Lasell  Missionary  Society  had  resulted  in 
brightening  the  lives  of  three  such  girls. 

On  April  3  Signaller  Tom  Skeyhill  of  the 
8th  Australian  Infantry  Battalion  gave  a  lec- 
ture in  the  Congregational  Church.  He  is  a 
poet  as  well  as  a  soldier.  Since  coming  from 
Australia  he  has  aided  the  Liberty  Loans  in 
America  by  raising  money  at  theaters  and 
public  places  in  almost  every  State  in  the 
Union.  On  Thursday  evening  he  spoke  to  us 
of  his  admiration  for  America  and  expressed 
a  wish  that  Great  Britain  and  America  might 
always  stand,  as  now,  side  by  side.  He 
amused  the  audience  greatly  with  the  descrip- 
tion of  his  first  impression  of  America  and  of 
the  language,  spoken  so  differently  from  what 
it  is  in  Great  Britain.  In  closing  he  told  us 
stories  of  the  battles  in  which  he  had  taken 
part  in  Gallipoli  and  mentioned  the  part  the 
poets  have  played  in  this  war. 

The  following  morning  we  were  all  de- 
lighted to  listen  again  to  the  gifted  Tom 
Skeyhill.  His  subject,  "Poetry  and  the 
War,"  was  extremely  interesting.  He  chose 
three  of  the  great  war  poets,  Joyce  Kilmer, 


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Rupert  Brook,  and  Alan  Seeger,  and  gave 
sketches  of  their  lives  and  read  some  of  their 
works.  Of  these  we  well  remember  "A 
Rendezvous  with  Death,"  "The  Tree,"  and 
"England." 

Afterwards  the  girls  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  and  speaking  with  him.  We  are  sure 
he  will  never  forget  the  on-rush  of  the  girls' 
memory  books  which  he  signed  steadily  for 
the  remainder  of  the  morning. 

On  the  evening  of  April  5  the  Maine  Club 
gave  a  dance  for  the  school.  At  quarter  of 
eight  the  members  greeted  their  guests  by 
singing  a  Maine  song.  Then  all  joined  in 
the  grand  march,  which  was  led  by  two  of  the 
officers,  Deborah  Ingraham  and  Gertrude 
Trafton.  Dainty  dance  orders  with  pine-tree 
decorations  were  furnished  and  were  soon 
filled  out  for  the  fourteen  dances  which  fol- 
lowed. Punch  and  fancy  crackers  were 
served.  Every  one  voted  the  Maine  girls  to 
be  good  hostesses  as  well  as  enterprising  or- 
ganizers of  one  of  the  first  state  clubs. 

In  place  of  the  regular  vespers  on  April  6 
the  girls  went  to  The  Second  Church  in  West 
Newton  and  listened  to  a  very  pleasing  mu- 
sical recital,  which  consisted  of  selections  for 
the  organ,  violin  and  piano,  as  well  as  several 
anthems  by  the  well-trained  choir. 

On  April  16,  the  Orphean  Club  gave  a  very 
pleasing  concert.  The  assisting  artists  were 
Miss  Marguerite  Neekamp,  Soprano,  and 
Miss  Norma  MacMillan,  Contralto.  The  fol- 
lowing program  was  successfully  carried  out 
under  Professor  Dunham's  able  direction : 

Kamennoi-Ostrow    (Piano   and   Organ)  .  .Rubinstein 
Misses  Chase  and  Phillips 

a.  St.  John's  Eve   Chaminade 

b.  Cradle   Song    Ries 

c.  Snowflakes     Manney 

d.  The  Lord  is  my  Shepherd   Parker 

Le    Rossignol     Delibes 

Dansons    le    Gigue     Poldozvski 

Miss  Neekamp 

Cantata — "The  Singers  from  the  Sea" Bchrcnd 

1.  Hail,  O  Queen,  and  Lady  Fairest 

2.  Good  Welcome,  Maidens 

3.  When   Nights   Grow   Long 

4.  The  Syren  Rocked 

5.  That  Song  is  Sad 

6.  Margery  Rose 


7.  Now  Blend  Your  Voices 

8.  This  is  the  Song  of  the  Sea 

9.  Enough  !     Enough  ! 
10.  Homewards  Returning 

On  Thursday  evening,  April  24,  we  had  for 
our  speaker  Captain  Chamberlain  of  San 
Francisco,  who,  in  a  recent  lecture  tour,  has 
been  associated  with  such  men  as  Ex-Pres- 
ident Taft  and  Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke.  He 
took  for  his  subject  the  League  of  Nations. 
Captain  Chamberlain  declared  that  the  treaty 
should  not  be  signed  until  we  have  an  organ- 
ization to  stand  behind  it.  He  said  that  the 
three  great  forces  working  in  the  world  today 
are  those  for  reconstruction,  for  reaction  and 
for  revolution.  Captain  Chamberlain  urged 
us  all  to  understand  what  the  League  is  and 
what  it  is  not,  and  then  to  give  it  our  intel- 
ligent support. 

Vespers  on  April  27  were  in  charge  of  the 
Missionary  Society  and  were  held  at  Wood- 
land Park.  Favorite  hymns  were  sung  and 
Dr.  Sprague  gave  a  solo.  At  the  close  of 
this  pleasant  service,  the  Woodland  Park 
children  sang  "America"  and  saluted  the  flag 
a  handsome  one  which  they  were  able  to  pur- 
chase largely  from  the  funds  raised  at  their 
recent  entertainment. 

Mile.  Le  Royer  has  received  the  following 
letter  in  response  to  a  gift  of  money  from 
members  of  Lasell,  sufficient  to  secure  thirty- 
seven  trees  and  eighty-eight  chickens  for  the 
recent  French  restoration  campaign.  The 
girls  have  enjoyed  helping  in  this  practical 
and  interesting  plan. 

New  York  City,  May  2,  1919. 
My  dear  Mile.  Le  Royer: 

You  have  done  so  splendidly  with  the  two 
funds,  that  I  know  you  will  be  delighted  that 
New  England  has  been  able  to  make  her  gift 
to  France  of  1000  trees. 

Thank  you  for  the  share  that  Lasell  Semin- 
ary had  in  it.     Will  you  not  tell  them  from 
me  how  truly  we  appreciate  their  interest  to 
help  make  beautiful  that  dear  land  of  France? 
Very  sincerely  yours, 

Helen  Mumfoed, 
Executive  Chairman. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Miss  Elizabeth  Porter  of  the  Boston  Com- 
mittee for  the  Fatherless  Children  of  France 
spoke  to  us  at  vespers  on  May  4.  Miss  Porter 
explained  in  detail  what  the  committee  is  do- 
ing for  these  children  and  showed  us  that  by 
our  contributions  we  could  help  give  them 
health  and  happiness.  By  thus  aiding  the 
children  of  France  we  can  best  aid  France  it- 
self.    They  are  indeed  the  "flower  of  France." 

Through  the  help  of  the  girls  in  school,  the 
New  York  Club,  and  the  Lasell  Connecticut 
Valley  Club,  we  have  been  able  to  send  a  little 
money  to  France  for  the  benefit  of  the  blind 
soldiers.  Mile.  Le  Royer  has  received  the 
following  letters  from  one  of  the  nurses, 
Madame  Nogue — who  has  served  faithfully 
since  1914  without  missing  one  day — and  from 
some  of  the- blind  soldiers. 
My  dear  Friend, 

Enclosed  you  will  find  my  personal  and 
most  sincere  thanks,  the  thanks  of  some  of  my 
poor  blind  ones  of  whom  I  have  taken  care, 
who  are  now  at  the  school  for  re-education  and 
of  whom  the  most  unfortunate  are  always  my 
favorites.  Thanks  to  your  generous  assist- 
ance the  sum  of  money  which  you  sent  me  has 
given  them  a  little  comfort,  a  little  superfluity, 
if,  however,  one  can  have  plenty  for  the  poor 
children  of  from  20  to  25  years  who  have  lost 
their  sight.  They  unite  with  me  in  thanking 
you  with  all  their  young  hearts, — Soldiers  for 
the  most  just  cause  and  for  Victory. 

E.  Nogue,  Nurse. 

February,  1919. 
Dear  and  good  friend, 

I  owe  you  my  excuses  for  the  delay  in  reply- 
ing to  your  letter,  and  the  sum  of  money  which 
you  have  in  kindness  sent  to  me  for  my  poor 
blind.  Thanks  to  all  your  pupils  who  sym- 
pathized in  their  generous  hearts  with  so 
many  that  this  horrible  war  leaves  unfortun- 
ate, deprived  of  their  sight.  Thanks  ■  with 
all  my  heart  for  these  poor  unfortunate  ones 
who  are  truly  thankful  for  what  one  does  for 
them,  but  who  scarcely  know  how  to  express 
it.    You  will  judge  them  by  these  letters  which 


I  have  received,  I  am  expecting  one  of  them 
in  Braille  which  I  would  like  to  send  you  as 
soon  as  I  receive  it.  If  you  are  able  to  trans- 
late them  you  will  find  there  the  state  of  the 
souls  of  these  poor  little  ones  who  not  only 
no  longer  can  see,  but  for  the  most  part,  have 
no  family.  These  especially  I  can  help  best 
with  some  friends.  With  the  help  of  the 
Americans  we  will  be  victorious.  After  this 
horrible  nightmare  how  many  years  will  it 
take  to  reconstruct  our  country?  It  is  so 
devastated  that  all  the  north  of  France  will  be 
impossible  to  reconstruct.  When  will  the 
mines  and  the  manufactories  produce  any- 
thing?    No  one  knows. 

You  have  heard  that  the  United  States  hos- 
pital is  closed,  also  all  the  auxiliary  hospitals. 
I  do  not  need  to  tell  you  how  much  I  have 
regretted  the  loss  of  all  my  little  ones.  More- 
over those  who  had  still  need  of  care,  have 
been  sent  on  to  the  military  hospital  to  wait 
for  their  renewal  of  health.  I  hope  to  have  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  you  during  this  year.  Most 
sincere  thanks. 

Affectionately, 

E.  Nogue, 
Rue  Lugcal,  20  Bordeaux,  France. 


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Very  dear  Benefactress: 

Through  the  kindness  of  your  good  nurse, 
Madame  Nogue,  we  wish  to  thank  you  for 
your  goodness  in  sending  the  money  to  us. 
We  have  received  many  comforts  from  it,  such 
as  good,  warm  socks  and  underclothes.  In 
the  name  of  all  my  comrades,  Mademoiselle, 
I  thank  you  very  much  and  we  will  all  pray  for 
the  preservation  of  your  health. 

(Signature    of   several) 

My  good  Mamma  Nogue, 

It  is  with  pleasure  that  I  received  yesterday 
your  little  letter.  It  has  given  me  much  pleas- 
ure to  receive  news  of  you.  I  am  very  happy 
when  I  hear  from  you.  Before  anything  I 
thank  you  very  sincerely  for  your  post  office 
order  which  has  given  me  so  much  pleasure. 
At  last,  my  good  Mamma  Nome,  I  see  that 
vou  have  not   forgotten  the  little   Runskaues 


of  the  ward  St.  Georges.  Do  you  remem- 
ber on  the  day  of  the  armistice  all  the  little 
ones  of  the  ward  of  St.  Georges  had  flown? 
But  all  that  is  past  (the  words  missing).  As 
for  my  eyes  they  will  be  rather  uncertain.  I 
want  to  tell  you  at  once  that  I  have  changed 
my  hospital.  I  am  now  at  auxiliary  506 
where  I  am  very  comfortable.  It  is  a  hospital 
that  is  reopened  for  many  "rescapes"  (men 
left  for  dead  and  rescued  by  chance)  in  Paris 
now.  Finally  they  have  given  me  some  yel- 
low glasses.  I  have  the  use  of  1-10  of  the 
left  eye,  and  3-10  of  the  right  eye.  I  hope 
that  they  will  grow  better  and  better. 

Well  my  good  Mamma  Nogue,  I  must  close. 
I  remain  affectionately  your  little  boy, 

George  Belange, 
Hospital   Auxiliary   506. 


WOODLAND    PARK    NOTES 


The  St.  Cecilia  Club  of  Woodland  Park 
School  entertained  on  Thursday  afternoon, 
April  10th,  when  our  Assembly  Room  was  the 
scene  of  a  Cabaret  party — the  object  to  raise 
money  for  a  flag  for  our  school.  The  Club  is 
grateful  to  all  the  kind  folk  from  the  Semin- 
ary and  Town  who  gave  us  their  generous 
patronage. 

The  chief  feature  of  the  afternoon  was  the 
reader,  Miss  Bessie  G.  Whiting  of  Atlantic, 
Mass.,  the  charm  of  whose  personality  added 
greatly  to  the  pleasing  and  finished  manner 
with  which  she  entertained  us. 

Others  appearing  on  the  program  were 
Donald  Winslow,  Mary  Palmateer,  Evilda 
Cheng,  Geraldine  Clark,  Gwendolyn  McDon- 
ald, Helen  Palmateer.  Katherine  Braithwaite. 
The  ushers  were  Elizabeth  Pomeroy,  Ines 
Cabrera,  Clara  McKean,  and  Rosamund  Rice. 
Those  selling  posies  were :  Marjorie  Winslow, 
Katherine  Braithwaite,  Helen  Palmateer, 
Catherine  Brown.  Peppermints  were  sold  by 
Evilda  Cheng,  Geraldine  Clark,  Gwendolyn 
McDonald,  Elizabeth  Retan.  Punch  was  sold 
by  Bessie  Savage,  Gladys  Trueman,  Dorothy 
{Continued  en  page  17) 


Seldom  has  Lasell  published  more  interest- 
ing banns  than  the  announcement  of  the  mar- 
riage of  Mary  Frances  Fiske  and  Kingman 
Packard  Cass.  The  bride  and  her  mother 
were  both  Lasell  girls  and  Mrs.  Fiske  was  a 
school-mate  of  the  groom's  mother  at  Lasell. 
A  very  brilliant  wedding  and  reception  fol- 
lowed at  the  Hotel  Tuileries  in  Boston  on 
May  tenth.  The  officiating  clergyman  'was 
Rev.  Henry  Crane,  a  classmate  of  the  groom 
at  Wesleyan,  and  also  a  very  popular  speaker 
at  Lasell. 

On  April  ninth  Winifred  Madeline^  Anthony 
became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Edward  Glick.  Win- 
ifred was  here  in  1912-13  and  her  husband 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1914. 

Little  Dorothy  Packard  is  now  Mrs.  A.  Val- 
entine Klopp.  The  wedding  occurred  at 
Mount  Penn,  Pennsylvania,  on  Wednesday, 
April  twenty-third. 

The  marriage  of  Dorothy  Wing  Prentice 
to  Mr.  Norman  Boardman  Read  occurred  on 
Wednesday,  the  ninth  of  April.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Read  will  be  at  home  after  the  first  of  June 
at  9  Brownell  Street,  Worcester. 

And  now  comes  a  glad  note  from  Barbara 
Jones,  '14,  announcing  her  engagement  to  Mr. 
Frederick  E.  Bates.  Mr.  Bates  has  several 
college  degrees.  His  post-graduate  course  was 
taken  at  Harvard. 


Lasell's  heartiest  congratulations  are  ex- 
tended to  this  unit  of  happy  young  folks. 

Mary  E.  Wright  recently  made  us  glad  by 
coming  home  to  Lasell.  She  was  the  guest 
of  Frances  Heath.  Mary  is  enjoying  her  work 
in  Brooklyn  and  we  are  just  selfish  enough  to 
be  glad  that  she  still  misses  us.  She  promised 
to  report  again  soon  to  Lasell. 

Ella  Hazelton's,  '04,  letter  was  written  on 
official  Y.M.C.A.  stationery.  She  is  now  in 
service  overseas  with  the  A.E.F.  To  Miss 
Packard  she  writes,  "The  card  inviting  me  to 
the  midwinter  reunion  of  the  Lasell  alumnae 
has  just  come  and  as  we  were  asked  to  reply 
to  you  I  am  obeying.  I  am  over  in  France 
with  the  Y.M.C.A.,  and  was  entitled  to  my 
six  months'  service  stripe  yesterday.  For  over 
three  months  I  was  in  the  Dijon  canteen,  a 
very  busy  place,  but  since  the  day  before 
Christmas  I  have  been  here  in  Minot,  a  tiny 
village  with  about  twelve  hundred  American 
soldiers.  Minot  is  not  far  from  Dijon  as  the 
crow  flies,  but  it  is  an  all  day's  journey  by 
train.  I  make  gallons  of  hot  chocolate  for 
our  thirsty  soldiers  and  try  to  keep  them  from 
getting  too  homesick.  The  great  cry  now  is, 
"I  wanter  go  home."  I  wish  I  might  have 
attended  the  reunion  as  I  know  the  girls  had 
a  fine  time  and  a  delicious  luncheon,  some- 
thing I  could  appreciate  now  more  than  ever. 


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15 


Please  remember  me  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow, 
Miss  Potter,  Miss  Witherbee  and  any  other 
friends  who  may  recall  me.  I  am  with  the 
54th  Infantry  of  the  6th  Division  (1st  Bat- 
talion)." Lasell  is  proud  of  this  soldier  girl. 
Gertrude  Bull  Lea  has  every  reason  for  feel- 
ing unusually  proud  these  days.  Her  husband 
has  risen  steadily  since  he  entered  the  army 
and  is  now  Major  Lea.  Our  congratulations 
to  the  Major  and  his  wife. 

Who  should  pull  our  latch-string  recently 
but  dear  Bessie  House  MacMillan  from  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota.  She  had  been  visiting  her 
brother  in  Norfolk,  Virginia,  and  kindly  went 
back  to  St.  Paul  via  Boston.  Any  one  who 
knows  anything  about  geography  can  realize 
that  that  was  the  most  direct  route,  at  least 
as  far  as  Lasell  is  concerned,  and  we  appre- 
ciated her  coming.  It  seemed  impossible  that 
this  young  woman  could  be  the  mother  of 
five  children,  but  some  of  us  have  seen  these 
bonnie  babies  and  cannot  doubt.  Bessie  only 
stayed  for  a  short  call  and  promised  to  return. 
How  disappointed  we  were  that  she  failed  to 
reappear ! 

Clara  Nims,  '07,  who  is  now  head  of  the 
Children's  Department  at  the  Flower  Memo- 
rial Library  in  Watertown,  N.Y.,  took  a  vaca- 
tion recently  and  was  good  enough  to  include 
Lasell  in  her  itinerary.  She  rejoiced  over  all 
the  improvements  and  forward  movements  at 
Lasell,  and  was  especially  interested  in  the 
Woodland  Park  School.  She  brought  us  a 
good  word  from  Edna  Rogers  Carlisle,  '05, 
and  Laura  Simons.  Our  best  wishes  follow 
this  Lasell  librarian. 

In  a  note  which  our  principal  received  from 
Mollie  Taylor  Rathbun,  '94,  she  sent  the  sad 
tidings  of  the  sudden  death  of  Helen  Close 
Roult  in  Toledo,  Ohio.  It  seems  impossible  to 
think  of  this  young  bride,  abounding  in  good 
health,  as  having  passed  away.  We  have  not 
learned  the  particulars,  but  extend  our  sym- 
pathy to  the  bereaved  families. 

Helen  Benson  Lofgren,  '15,  writes  to  Dr. 
Winslow  from  Minneapolis,  telling  him  that 
her  husband  is  in  France  with  a  company  of 


engineers  and  she  was  uncertain  as  to  the  date 
of  his  return.  We  are  quite  proud  of  our  prac- 
tical Helen,  who  decided,  in  his  absence,  to 
fill  in  her  spare  time  with  teaching,  and  prob- 
ably by  this  time  she  is  one  of  the  assistant 
teachers  in  the  public  schools  in  the  depart- 
ment of  music.  We  wish  her  all  success,  and 
most  of  all  a  speedy  return  of  her  soldier  hus- 
band. 

Elsie  Doleman,  '14,  is  evidently  a  successful 
commandant.  She  writes  from  Stonewall 
Jackson  College,  Abingdon,  Virginia,  to  our 
Principal :  "Here  I  am  way  down  in  South- 
western Virginia  enjoying  life  and  my  work. 
The  weather  is  so  delightful  that  some  days 
I  have  all  my  classes  outdoors  and  I  have  all 
the  pupils  three  times  a  week  for  military 
drill  (which  they  have  never  had  before). 
Physical  Training  is  in  its  infancy  here,  but  I 
have  things  going  pretty  well  in  the  month 
I've  been  in  charge.  They  have  never  had  a 
May  Day  either,  but  I'm  going  to  have  one  this 
year.  There  are  a  few  girls  here  who  would 
like  to  go  North  to  school  next  year  and  I 
have  interested  them  in  Lasell  so  it  might  be 
advantageous  to  send  them  catalogs,  as  they 
have  asked  for  them.  This  school  closes  June 
3rd,  so  I  expect  to  be  home  for  Commence- 
ment." 

There  are  few  girls  as  loyal  to  Lasell  as 
Edith  Harris  Seward.  She  writes  Dr.  Wins- 
low from  her  home  at  New  Hampton,  New 
York.  She  has  been  visiting  about  among 
old  Lasell  girls,  was  in  New  Haven  for  a 
while,  then  went  back  to  her  home  city,  New- 
ark, where  she  had  a  delightful  visit  among 
friends.  While  in  New  Haven  Edith  had  a 
visit  with  Grace  Tirrell  Poole,  also  tried  to 
see  Mabel  Goodwin  Prentiss,  '02,  who  is  a 
New  Haven  minister's  wife.  She  had  a  call 
from  Helene  Wiedenmayer  Kleinhaus,  who, 
she  says,  is  a  wonderful  woman  and  mother. 
Since  leaving  Lasell,  Edith  has  lost  both 
mother  and  father.  She  has  three  small  boys. 
Some  of  the  old  girls  may  also  remember  that 
a  few  years  ago  she  lost  her  husband  through 
a  rather  tragic  accident.    Edith  returned  home 


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just  in  time  to  have  a  touch  of  the  grippe  and 
since  then  has  been  full  of  missionary  work. 
She  writes,  "I  served  my  apprenticeship  under 
Miss  Packard  at  Lasell.  I  made  a  speech  at 
one  of  the  societies  in  our  Presbytery  the  other 
day  and  had  occasion  to  refer  to  one  of  the 
mission  study  books  I  took  with  Miss  Ken- 
drick.  At  Christmas  time  I  had  delightful 
pictures  of  Amy  Kothie  Collins',  1900,  three 
children  and  of  Nell  Jones  Yeomans,  'OS,  and 
her  family."  We  are  all  very  grateful  for  this 
good  message  from  Edith  Harris  Seward. 

Marguerite  Hall,  '16,  is  very  happily  situ- 
ated at  the  McLean  Hospital  at  Waverley. 
She  is  very  much  interested  in  all  the  work  of 
training,  and  her  enthusiasm  and  enjoyment 
of  the  work  give  her  parents  much  pleasure. 
Marguerite  realizes  that  her  present  success 
is  due  largely  to  Lasell  training.  Her  music  is 
proving  a  real  help  there. 

Charlotte  Lesh,  '12,  and  Rosealthe  Wil- 
liams, '12,  dined  at  Lasell  recently.  They  had 
"per"  during  the  afternoon  to  call  on  Ruth 
Coulter  Bierer,  '12,  and  reported  a  delightful 
visit  with  her  and  her  little  family.  Both  girls 
were  looking  well,  but  we  strongly  recom- 
mended Rosealthe  to  return  to  Lasell  to  re- 
gain some  of  those  good  pounds  which  she 
has  lost  during  her  postgraduate  business 
career.  The  girls  had  some  cunning  pictures 
of  Mary  Goodwillie  Townsend's,  '12,  little 
boy  and  Emily  Butterworth  Pritchard's,  '12, 
baby.  This  little  fellow's  picture  was  taken  in 
his '  carriage.  Seldom  have  we  seen  such  a 
lauehing  baby  as  Emily's.  They  also  told  us 
of  the  recent  engagement  of.Marjorie  Risser, 
'12,  to  Mr.  Blackwell.  We  await  an  official 
announcement.  Also  they  reported  that  Mary 
Fenno,  '13,  is  enjoying  her  business  career  in 
Boston.  Miriam  Flynn,  '12,  will  soon  cross 
the  seas  to  serve  as  a  Y.M.C.A.  canteen  work- 
er. Elizabeth  and  Gertrude  Farnham  are  over- 
seas in  similar  service. 

We  had  not  learned  until  these  dear  girls 
told  us  of  the  death  of  our  Marjory  Read 
Murphy.      Her    former   schoolmates    will    re- 


member that  Marjory  was  very  happily  mar- 
ried and  living  in  Portland,  Oregon. 

Our  school  has  been  especially  bereaved  re- 
cently as  two  of  its  members  have  lost  their 
fathers.  Phyllis  Rowe  of  the  senior  class  lost 
her  father  very  suddenly  of  pneumonia.  He 
had  just  returned  from  a  visit  with  Phyllis 
in  Boston,  and  his  passing  was  a  great  shock 
to  this  dear  senior. 

Helen  Files'  father,  Professor  Files  of  Bow- 
doin  College,  passed  away  after  a  lingering 
illness,  largely  a  result  of  the  strenuous  ser- 
vice in  the  Y.M.C.A.  overseas. 

Mildred  Caine  is  mourning  the  loss  of  her 
uncle,  and  Elaine  Bass'  grandfather,  Mr.  J. 
P.  Bass,  died  in  Bangor,  Maine,  recently.  Mr. 
Bass  was  for  many  years  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  business  and  philanthropic  life  of 
his  native  city  and  State.  To  each  of  these 
sorrowing  mates  and  their  home  circle  we 
extend  our  tenderest  sympathy. 

Constance  Allen,  '18,  and  Una  Storrs  spent 
the  week-end  recently  at  Lasell,  and  Annie 
Dimond,  '18,  tarried  but  a  day.  Very  gladly 
did  we  welcome  these  dear  old  girls. 

We  are  sorry  Esther  Alden  Ayers  and  Ma- 
bel Loverin  selected  Monday  as  their  visiting 
day  at  Lasell,  for  some  of  us  who  would  have 
liked  very  much  to  have  seen  them  were  away. 
We  greatly  appreciated  the  friendliness  and 
loyalty  of  these  old  girls  who  feel  it  their 
duty,  and  certainly  it  is  our  pleasure,  for  them 
to  return  to  Lasell  whenever  they  are  in  the 
neighborhood. 

Our  preceptress  reports  having  met  Beulah 
Coward  Bresee  and  Helen  Early  recently  at  a 
missionary  meeting  in  Newtonville.  Both  girls 
were  enthusiastic  over  the  splendid  work  in 
which  they  were  actively  engaged.  I  believe 
Beulah  and  her  mother  had  just  pledged  them- 
selves to  support  the  Bible  worker  for  a  vil- 
lage in  far  away  China  and  Helen  half  prom- 
ised that  she  might  come  back  to  Lasell  an- 
other year. 

That  was  a  bi?  and  pleasant  surprise  to  us, 
the  message  which  came  to  our  Principal  from 
Guillelemine  Kanady  Walden  who  is  now  in 


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New  York  City  and  not  at  her  old  home  in 
Denton,  Texas.  In  1917  Guillelemine  entered 
the  Institute  of  Music  Art  in  New  York  City, 
where  she  has  prepared  herself  to  take  the 
position  of  supervisor  of  music,  and  in  order 
to  get  her  certificate  needed  a  report  of  work 
done  at  Lasell.  At  the  close  of  her  message 
she  expressed  the  hope  of  revisiting  the  Sem- 
inary with  her  former  roommate,  Madeline 
Smith.  We  remember  very  distinctly  and 
pleasantly  this  enthusiastic  little  Texan  girl 
and  certainly  wish  her  all  success  in  her  musi- 
cal career. 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 

(Continued  f i om  page  13) 
Campbell,     Eleanor    Faxon.       Those     selling 
"Puffed  Perfections"  were  Donald  .Winslow, 
Barbara     Sprague,     Frances     Sprague,     Jane 
Brown.     Peanuts  were  sold  by  the  ushers. 

We  are  very  grateful  to  Mrs.  G.  M.  Wins- 
low  for  the  handsome  Woodland  Park  Ban- 
ner which  is  her  gift  to  us.  The  ground  is  of 
green  satin,  the  letters  painted  in  white  and 
the  whole  edged  with  white  fringe.  Mrs. 
Winslow  presented  the  banner  at  Chapel  ex- 
ercise on  April  9  and  addressed  the  school 
in  her  usual  gracious  way. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  were  our  guests  at 
Chapel  on  Tuesday  morning,  April  15th,  when 
Miss  Chase  on  behalf  of  the  St.  Cecilia  Club 
presented  Dr.  Winslow  with  a  handsome 
American  flag.  The  flag  is  of  heavy  silk — 
the  stripes  woven  in  one  piece ;  is  mounted  on 
a  handsome  standard  and  has  been  placed 
in  the  Assembly  Room  of  our  school.  Dr. 
Winslow  accepted  the  flag  and  told  us  what 
the  flag  should  mean  to  us,  especially  in  this 
time  when  the  whole  world  is  depending  upon 
the  United  States  for  the  "last  word"  in  Free- 
dom and  Equity.  The  school  sang  the  "Song 
to  the  Flag"  and  proudly  saluted  their  gift  to 
our  Principal. 

Two  more  new  pupils — Harriet  Hanna  as  a 
house  pupil — Virginia  Hendrie  as  a  day  pupil. 

Gladys  Trueman  is  back  again,  having  been 


in  a  hospital  in  Boston  for  an  operation  on 
her  nose  and  throat. 

Erna  Schmidt  has  also  returned  after  nearly 
a  month  at  home  on  account  of  illness. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mueller  came  from  Brook- 
lyn, N.Y.,  on  April  12th  and  spent  the  week- 
end with  their  daughter  Louisa. 

We  enjoyed  our  week-end  rest  over  Easter 
Sunday.  And  now  the  days  are  full  till  June 
10th.   '       - 


THE   WAY   WE   FEEL 


(Parents,  relatives,  would-be-relatives,  please 
note.) 
Oh,  I'm  thru  with  the  world, 
With  its  ceaseless  strife 
With  its  never  ending  woes, 
And  I'm  ready  to  quit  this  life, 
As  far  as  this  life  goes. 
And  the  fact  that  there  are 
But  40  days  more 
'Till  Commencement  will  prevail, 
Cannot  relieve  my  soul  so  sore, 
Unless  I  Get  Some  Mail. 

Ex. 


TO  MILDRED  JOHNSTON,  Class  of  1 906 


Mildred  has  recently  returned  to  this  coun- 
try. 

The  last  smile  long  since  died,  across  the  sea : 
The  children  have  forgotten  how  to  play: 
The  great  god  Sun  but  faintly  sends  his  ray, 
As  though  his  radiance  had  no  property 
To  pierce  the  cloak  of  war's  impiety. 

Then  into  Youth's  white  soul  there  flashed  a  way 
To  give  what  is  not  won  in  battle-fray. 
A  slender  girl  goes   forth,  unfalteringly! 

She  seeks  no  cross  of  honor  near  her  heart ; 
She  craves  no  fame ;  aspires  not  to  renown ; 
But    in    the    eternal    Book   of    Things    Worth 
While 
Is  entered  on  a  page  of  gold,  apart. 
In  letters  that  are  jewels  for  her  crown. 

The    name    of    one    who    brings    a    child    her 
smile. 

Maude  Simcs  Harding. 


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JOKES 

Somebody :  "Why  don't  you  get  a  new  joke 
for  The  Leaves?" 

Us :  "What's  the  matter  with  the  one  we 
have  been  using?" 


Al  Nicholson :    "I  hate  to  have  anything  to 
do  with  money,  because  I'm  so  senseless." 


Rox  Kent :  "Excuse  me,  I  didn't  mean  to 
step  on  your  feet." 

Bigewood : .  "Oh,  that's  nothing ;  I  walk  on 
them  myself." 


C.  Kuhn :    "There  is  a  new  kind  of  poison." 
Frank  Wieder:    "What  do  they  call  it?" 
C.  Kuhn  :   "Aeroplane  poison.    It  only  takes 
one  drop  to  kill  a  person." 


Helen  O'Brien :    "There  is  one  thing  I  can 
do  better  than  any  one  else  in  the  world." 
Miss  Hutchins:    "What's  that?" 
Helen  O'Brien :    "Read  my  own  handwrit- 
ing." 


A  few  more  pens  and  pencils  in  K.  Rice's 
hair  would  improve  her  appearance. 


Helene :    "I  can't  shut  the  closet  door.' 
Helen :    "Well !  take  your  shoes  out." 


PARLEZ-VOUS 


"Ain't  it  an  awful  feeling,  Mabel, 
When  you   are  placed   at  the   French   table? 
Then  every  day  you  say,  'Bon  jour,' 
And  rest  assured  you're  getting  'poor.' 
You  ask  for  this,  you  may  get  that, 
And  in  one  week  you're  not  so  fat ; 
When  "donnez-moi  une  verre  de  lait,' 
Is  all  the  French  that  you  can  say. 
It  may  not  be  as  one  may  think, 
But  thus  your  French  drives  you  to  drink." 

Ex. 


F.  O'Brien:   "When  I  weigh  150,  I'm  going 
to  stop." 

E.  Vance:    "Stop  what, — eating?" 

F.  O'Brien :    "No,  getting  weighed." 


1st  pupil:   The  night  wore  on  and  on. 

2nd  pupil :    What  did  it  wear  ? 

1st  pupil :    The  close  of  the  day,  of  course. 


Dot  Balch :  "Please  don't  play  the  Victrola 
any  more." 

H.  Files  :    "Why  is  that  ?"  ' 

Dot  Balch :  "I  hate  to  see  you  putting  on 
airs." 


Kay  Mulholland :  "Ever  hear  the  story 
about  the  oatmeal  ?" 

Bunny  B. :    "No,  what  is  it?" 

Kay  M. :  "If  it  wasn't  a  cereal,  I  would 
tell  you." 


If   seven   days   will   make   one    week,   how 
many  will  make  one  strong? 


C.  Kuhn :    "Well,  so  long,  I  must  be  off.' 
E.  Vance :    "Yes,  you  must  be." 


Trafton :    "A  good  way  to  tell  one  Hopkins- 
twin  from  the  other,  is  by  the  ring  she  wears."' 
Bigwood  :    "Which  one  ?" 
Trafton :   "Funny,  I  never  thought  of  that."' 


The  movies  are  g 
To  the  question,  " 
political  debates  in 
ton  school  replied : 
banks."  No  doubt 
quainted  also  with 
Mary  Pickford,  Q 


reat  educators  of  the  young. 

Who  participated  in  great 
1858?"  a  student  in  a  Bos- 

"Lincoln  and  Douglas  Fair- 
the  rising  generation  is  ac- 
Charlemagne  Chaplin  and 

ueen  of  Scots. — Ex. 


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Exchanges 


We  miss  the  exchanges  in  the  following  pa- 
pers : — 

The  Magpie,  Waterbury,  Conn. 
The  Triangle,  Wilmington,  Del. 
The  Herald,  Holyoke,  Mass. 


The  Budget,  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey :  We 
like  your  stories. 

The  Franklin,  Cincinnati,  Ohio :  Begging 
your  pardon,  not  Tassel  Leaves,  but  Lasell 
Leaves. 

Poly  Life,  Baltimore,  Md. :  Your  cover  for 
April  is  very  attractive. 

The  Optimist,  Newark,  New  Jersey:  Don't 
you  think  pictures  add  to  the  interest  of  the 
paper  ? 

The  Student  Review,  Northampton,  Mass. : 
Your  jokes  are  excellent,  but  where  are  the 
snapshots  ? 


AS    OTHERS   SEE   US 


The  Phoenix,  Montpelier,  Vermont. 

"Lasell   Leaves   is   a   very  good   magazine, 
good  cuts,  especially  the  one  'Jokes'." 
Orange  and  Black,   Middletown,   Conn. 

"Your  school  seems  like  a  large  congenial 
family.  All  your  departments  are  splendid." 
The   Columbia,   Columbia,   South   Carolina. 

"This  is  an  excellent  magazine.  Your  stories 
are  very  good,  but  you  might  improve  on  your 
jokes.  The  'Personal'  and  'Supplement'  de- 
partments are  extremely  interesting  this 
month." 
The  Sunnyside,  Tarryton-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 

"Your  jokes  are  excellent,  so  why  not  add 
a  few  more  ?" 


We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  following 
exchanges : 

Orange  and  Black — Middletown,  Conn. 

The  Franklin — Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

The  Villa  Marian — Immaculata,  Penn. 

The  Critic — Lynchburg,  Va. 

The  Dalhousic  Gazette — Halifax,  N.  S. 

High  School  Reviezv — Northampton,  Mass. 

Philomath — Framingham,  Mass. 

The  Students'  Reviezv — Northampton,  Mass. 

The  Record — Patchogue,  N.  Y. 

The  Advance — Salem,   Mass. 

Keenc  Kroniclc — Keene,  N.  H. 

The  Brimmer  School  Magazine — Boston, 
Mass. 

The  Columbian — Columbia,   S.   C. 

The  Hamiltoniau — Hamilton  College,  Lex- 
ington, Ky. 

The  Missile — Petersburg,  Va. 

The  Breeze — Center  City,  Minn. 

The  Goldenrod — Wayne,  Neb. 

The  High  School  Aegis — Beverly,  Mass. 

The   Tradesman — Boston,   Mass. 

The  Headlight — Richmond,   Ind. 

The  Rail  Splitter— Lincoln,  111. 

The  Budget— Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Hotchkiss  Literary  Monthly — Lakeville, 
Conn. 

The  Junior  News  Letter — Anderson,  Ind. 

The  Triangle — Wilmington,  Del. 

The  Magpie — Waterbury,  Conn. 

The  Artisan — Bridgeport,   Conn. 

The  Gleam— St.  Paul,  Minn. 

The  Quill— New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 

The  Optimist — Newark,  N.  J. 

The  Dean  Megaphone — Franklin,  Mass. 

Poly  Life— Baltimore,  Md. 

The  King  Edzvard's  School  Chronicle — Can- 
ada. 

The  Mirror— Pratt,  Kan. 

The  Phoenix — Montpelier,  Vt. 


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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND   FORMER  STUDENTS 

"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

COMMENCEMENT  NUMBER 

All  articles  or   "bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor  — 

Lillian  M.   Packard 


PROGRAM    FOR    COMMENCEMENT 


FREDERICK 
Emily  Brookfield  Hardy's  Youngest  Child 


Just  as  this  little  lad,  a  Lasell  grandchild, 
greets  you  with  a  smile  at  his  own  door  so 
will  Lasell  and  your  Lasell  friends  greet  you 
on  your  return  to  your  school  home  in  June. 
Come  and  see. 


Saturday,  May  31.  4.30  P.  M. 
MAY  FETE 

Saturday,  June  7,  8  P.  M. 
GLEE  CLUB  CONCERT 

Monday,  June  9,  10  A.  M. 
RIVER  DAY 

Tuesday,  June  10,  3.30  P.  M. 

THE   JUNE   REVELRY   BY   THE   WOODLAND 

PARK  STUDENTS 

Wednesday,  June  11,  8  P.  M. 
COMMENCEMENT  CONCERT 

Thursday,  June  12,  2.30  to  3  P.  M. 
SWIMMING  EXHIBITION 

3  to  S.30  P.   M. 

ART  EXHIBIT,   STUDIO 

HOME  ECONOMICS  EXHIBIT 

Carter  Hall 

Saturday,  June  14,  8  P.  M. 
SENIOR  RECEPTION 

Sunday,  June  IS,  10.45  A.  M. 
SERMON   BEFORE  THE  GRADUATING   CLASS 

Jay  Thomas  Stocking,  D.D. 

6.1S  P.  M. 

COMMENCEMENT  VESPERS 

Rev.  Arthur  W.  Moulton 

Monday,  June  16,  8  P.  M. 
CLASS  DAY  EXERCISES 

(Cards   necessary) 


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Tuesday,  June  17,   10.45  A.  M. 

COMMENCEMENT  EXERCISES 

Address 

Congressman  Robert  Luce 

2.   P.  M 

REUNION   OF   THE  ALUMNAE  AND   FORMER 

STUDENTS 


WELCOME  TO   THE   CLASS   OF   '89 


Next  to  the  coming  home  of  the  class  of  '18 
no  reunion  is  being  more  carefully  planned  or 
enthusiastically  anticipated  than  that  of  the 
Class  of  '89.  Thirty  years  of  real  life,  with 
its  lights  and  shadows,  have  left  few  lines  on 
the  faces  of  these  friends  and  those  will  dis- 
appear temporarily  as  for  a  few  days  time 
turns  backward  in  its  flight  and  makes  them 
care-free  girls  a^ain. 

No  better  examples  can  be  found  of  the 
life-long  friendships  of  Lasell  students  than 
in  this  very  group.  From  North  to  South, 
from  East  to  West,  from  Orient  to  Occident 
some  have  travelled,  while  others  have  kept 
guard  over  their  own  home  circles.  Two  have 
slipped  away  to  their  reward,  one  not  long 
after  her  graduation,  and  the  other  not  many 
months  ago.  Distance  seems  never  to  have 
separated  them  in  heart  and  whenever  circum- 
stances have  brought  them  near  to  each  other 
they  have  flocked  together  at  the  first  oppor- 
tunity. 

Their  team  work  is  worthy  of  note  and 
imitation  by  the  other  alumnae.  The  Lasell 
Club  of  New  York  and  the  Connecticut  Val- 
ley Club  count  a  group  of  them  as  among 
their  most  dependable  members.  The  presi- 
dent and  secretary  of  the  former  club  is  at 
present  from  this  class.  When  Lasell  be- 
came interested  in  the  Fatherless  Children  of 
France  through  the  efforts  of  the  '89  Life 
Secretary  a  little  French  boy  was  adopted  and 
paid  for  two  years  in  advance. 

In  war  work  they  have  had  a  noble  part, 
not  only  sending  their  sons  into  the  army,  one 
at  least  to  pay  the  supreme  sacrifice,  but  in 


their  leadership  of  the  forces  at  home  in  Red 
Cross  work,  and  other  forms  of  government 
service.     Such  is  their  spirit. 

We  would  not  forget  a  small  company  of 
1889  girls  who,  though  not  graduates,  some- 
how seem  to  belong  to  this  charmed  circle  and 
they  will  be  welcome  in  June.  It  would  be 
very  gratifying  to  us  if  as  many  of  the  girls 
and  faculty  of  that  period  as  possible  would 
plan  to  come  to  Commencement  this  year. 

If  you  are  to  be  here  for  more  than  one  day 
arrangements  should  be  made  beforehand,  and 
in  this  we  shall  be  glad  to  do  what  we  can  to 
help. 


OUR  WEEK'S  TRIP 


There  is  much  enjoyment  to  be  had  in  a 
plain  commonplace  trip  to  Chicago,  but  for 
Dr.  Winslow  and  myself  the  trip  was  embel- 
lished and  made  ever  memorable  by  the  cor- 
diality and  hospitality  of  our  friends,  the  Lasell 
girls  and  their  families. 

From  the  first  greeting  given  us  by  Edith 
McClure  Patterson,  who  took  us  to  her  own 
home,  to  the  last  good-bye  of  the  group  of  De- 
troit girls,  our  time  was  filled  with  delightful 
entertainment,  and,  what  we  enjoyed  best  of 
all,  real  visits  with  the  girls.  There  was  some 
incidental  sight-seeing  which  proved  to  be  of 
great  interest. 

Edith  McClure  Patterson  insisted  on  enter- 
taining us  at  her  own  home,  although  they  had 
moved  into  their  attractive  apartment  only  two 
days  before  we  arrived,  so  we  had  the  pleasure 
of  knowing  her  husband  and  her  six-year-old 
boy,  McClure,  and  of  admiring  her  wonderful 
ability  in  making  us  so  welcome  in  her  very 
new  home,  taking  us  about  the  city,  driving  her 
own  car,  managing  her  lively  boy,  meeting  her 
class  in  the  Chicago  University  course  which 
she  is  taking,  and  making  arrangements  for 
the  meeting  of  the  Chicago  Lasell  Club,  of 
which  she  is  president.  She  not  only  accom- 
plished everything,  but  did  it  so  calmly  and 
efficiently  that  we  were  very  proud  of  her,  of 


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course  claiming  some  of  the  credit  of  her 
ability  for  her  Alma  Mater. 

Through  her  connection  with  Chicago  Uni- 
versity we  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  some- 
thing of  its  buildings,  visiting  its  Elementary 
School,  and  meeting  some  of  the  professors. 
We  were  especially  interested  in  seeing  the 
beautiful  new  Ida  Noyes  Building  with  its 
wonderful  architecture  and  furnishings.  We 
also  spent  an  enjoyable  hour  among  the  paint- 
ings at  the  Chicago  Art  Institute.  Those  who 
live  near  enough  to  become  acquainted  with 
its  fine  works  of  art  are  fortunate. 

The  meeting  of  the  Lasell  Club  on  Friday 
evening  is  reported  in  another  column.  It 
was  a  delightfully  informal  and  social  meet- 
ing, made  doubly  enjoyable  by  the  attendance 
of  some  of  the  parents  and  a  goodly  number 
of  the  husbands  of  the  girls.  Mr.  W.  T.  Shep- 
herd, whose  home  is  now  in  Evanston,  attend- 
ed the  meeting,  and  brought  with  him  an  in- 
teresting and  valuable  book,  which  he  present- 
ed to  the  Seminary.  It  contains  Lasell  pro- 
grams, special  menus  and  other  papers,  many 
of  them  illustrated  by  original  drawings,  and 
covering  the  period  of  ten  years  from  1884  to 
1894,  when  Mr.  Shepherd  was  at  the  Semi- 
nary in  an  official  capacity.  This  book  will  be 
a  prized  possession  of  the  school  and  the  gift 
is  much  appreciated. 

On  Friday  evening  we  were  overwhelmed 
with  invitations  for  the  next  day,  more  than 
we  could  arrange  for,  so  we  appointed  Edith 
Patterson  our  manager,  resulting  in  the  fol- 
lowing delightful  program  for  Saturday. 
In  the  morning  we  called  at  Julia  Potter 
Schmidt's  home,  but  as  she 'had  just  gone  out 
we  followed  her  up  and  overtook  her  with 
her  mother  and  two  dear  little  children.  Julia, 
who  is  looking  and  feeling  very  well,  was 
wheeling  the  fine  baby  boy  in  his  carriage, 
and  little  "Hetty  Betty"  was  wheeling  her  own 
little  doll  carriage.  We  quite  lost  our  hearts 
to  "Hetty  Betty,"  so  small  and  demure  and 
sweet. 

We  made  a  short  call  on  Edna  Mathews 
Condit,  who  has  not  been  well,  but  is  better 


now.  Our  next  appointment  was  at  Mar- 
shall Field's,  where  Mabel  and  Florence  Jones 
met  us  (Edith  Patterson  and  her  boy,  Dr. 
Winslow  and  myself)  and  took  us  in  their 
car  along  the  beautiful  North  Shore  drive  to 
Evanston.  After  a  call  at  the  attractive  home 
of  the  Joneses,  where  we  saw  Mrs.  Jones  and 
Ida,  Florence  took  us  in  her  electric  to  the 
home  of  Julia  Funkhouser  Mellin  for  dinner. 
Louise  Funkhouser  Williams  was  there,  too, 
to  welcome  us,  and  royal  welcome  it  was,  for 
Julia  has  four  sturdy,  active  children,  three 
boys  and  a  girl,  the  oldest  only  nine.  She  did 
a  wonderful  thing  that  day,  but  it  is  evi- 
dently nothing  unusual  for  her  to  accomplish 
wonders.  Having  no  maid,  she  cooked  the 
whole  dinner  for  ten  people — a  delicious  din- 
ner with  little  hot  rolls  and  strawberry  short- 
cake and  other  things  that  take  time  and  skill. 
She  served  the  dinner  herself,  all  the  time 
entertaining  her  guests  and  keeping  in  perfect 
order  her  lively  family.  There  were  so  many 
of  us  talking  at  once  that  one  of  the  little  boys 
to  get  in  a  word  stood  up  and  said,  "Excuse 
me  for  interrupting,  but — ."  The  little  three- 
year  old  girl  went  up  stairs  to  shine  her  shoes 
and  an  attempt  to  polish  them  herself  resulted 
in  her  reappearing  with  shoe  blacking  all  over 
the  front  of  her  new  dress,  but  that  was  only 
an  incident  in  the  day's  work.  As  an  avoca- 
tion Julia  is  raising  canary  birds  and  doing 
the  laundry  with  a  washing  machine,  because 
no  one  can  be  hired  to  do  the  washing  for  so 
many  children.  Her  children  need  her  now, 
and  she  is  devoting  herself  to  them.  And 
Louise  is  accomplishing  a  really  harder  task 
most  nobly.  In  spite  of  the  tragic  death  of  her 
husband  not  long  after  their  marriage,  she  is 
going  on  cheerfully  and  bravely  and  is  just 
her  dear  old  self.  She  lives  with  her  father 
and  mother,  but  is  a  very  useful  and  a  much 
beloved  aunt  in  Julia's  home. 

From  Evanston  we  returned  to  Chicago  for 
an  appointment  at  the  Congress  Hotel  with 
Helen  E.  Carter.  Over  the  tea  cups  we  had  a 
good  visit  with  Helen,  learning  aboirt  her 
work.      She   is   advertising   manager    for  the 


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Kabo  Corset  Company,  and  is  filling  a  respon- 
sible position  very  ably.  She  is  president  of 
the  Chicago  Woman's  Advertising  Club  and 
is  using  her  education  and  ability  to  good  ad- 
vantage. 

Our  next  engagement  was  at  the  Union 
League  Club  where  Emily  Brookfield  Hardy 
and  her  husband  entertained  at  dinner  Edith 
Patterson  and  her  husband,  and  Dr.  Winslow 
and  myself  (or  to  keep  the  proper  order,  Mrs. 
Winslow  and  her  husband).  In  this  elegant 
and  quiet  place,  with  such  good  company  we 
enjoyed  the  evening  immensely.  We  heard  in- 
timately of  many  of  the  girls  and  saw  pictures 
of  Emily  and  Fanny  Brookfield's  children, 
some  of  which  appear  in  this  copy  of  the 
Leaves.  The  Union  League  Club  has  a  notable 
collection  of  paintings.  Its  members  have  been 
serving  the  whole  country  during  the  war  by 
contributing  a  large  amount  of  money  and  time 
towards  war  propaganda.  Mr.  Goodwillie,  the 
father  of  Mary  and  Dora,  is  one  of  the  direc- 
tors. 

On  Sunday  morning  we  attended  the  beau- 
tiful Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  where  Mr. 
Goodwillie  met  us  and  took  us  to  the  Shore 
Crest  Hotel,  where  he,  Mrs.  Goodwillie  and 
Dora  are  living  at  present.  It  was  a  delight 
to  meet  this  family  again,  and  to  hear  directly 
of  the  other  members.  Dora  is  the  dear  girl 
she  always  was.     Not  very  strong  at  present, 


but  hoping  to  be  her  old  self  again  soon.  They 
are  all  anxiously  awaiting  the  return  of  Dora's 
brother  from  France  where  he  has  fought 
bravely  but  fortunately  received  no  injuries. 
Mary's  boy  is  two  years  old.  Her  home  is 
still  Proctor,  Vt,  where  she  is,  as  usual, 
everybody's  friend.  It  is  good  fortune  to  be 
counted  among  the  friends  of  the  Goodwillies. 

Mr.  Goodwillie  took  us  in  his  car  the  long 
ride  from  their  hotel  to  Edith  Patterson's 
home  and  after  another  dinner  with  the  Pat- 
terson family  and  a  last  visit  with  Edith  and 
her  husband,  we  took  the  night  train  for  De- 
troit. 

.  Arriving  in  Detroit  early  in  the  morning, 
we  had  time  to  make  a  very  much  worth-while 
visit  to  the  Art  Museum.  At  eleven  o'clock 
Luella  Krentler  met  us  at  our  hotel  and,  driv- 
ing her  own  car,  took  us  for  a  two  hours'  ride 
over  the  beautiful  city,  including,  of  course, 
Belle  Isle  Park  and  the  Ford  and  Packard 
Motor  Works.  Edessa  Warner  accompanied, 
adding  to  the  pleasure  of  the  trip. 

At  half -past  one  six  more  Lasell  girls  met 
us  at  a  club  house  where  we  had  lunch  and  a 
fine  visit  together.  Our  round  table  included : 
Luella  Krentler,  Edessa  Warner  (who  has  had 
charge  of  Red  Cross  work  in  Farmington), 
Helen  Bauman  Routier  ("still  looking  for  a 
house"),  Helen  Warner  (banking),  Norma 
Erdman  (secretary),  Irene  Stroh  (secretary 
of  the  Detroit  Club)  ;  at  home  when  not  occu- 
pied with  the  two  sons  of  her  sister,  Eleanor 
Stroh  Cole),  Lucy  Aldrich  Berston  (has  two 
children,  Betty,  age  four,  Neil  Jameson,  one 
and  a  half). 

Later  in  the  afternoon  we  said  good-bye  to 
these  Detroit  Club  girls,  who  had  given  us 
such  a  delightful  day. 

On  our  way  home  we  spent  a  half  day  at 
Niagara  Falls  and  a  short  time  in  the  Buffalo 
Art  Museum,  but  we  saw  no  more  Lasell  girls 
until  we  reached  Auburndale,  where  we  were 
glad  to  find  the  present  ones  still  going  back 
and  forth,  to  and  from  Bragdon  Hall,  and 
wandering  about  the  Campus.  In  our  own 
home  two  future  Lasell  girls  (as  well  as  their 


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brothers)  gave  us  another  welcome,  and  Pris- 
cilla's  first  question  was  in  line  with  the  spirit 
of  hospitality  shown  us  all  along  the  way, 
"Are  you  going  to  eat  dinner  wiv  us  today  ?" 
We  are  thankful  for  this  chance  to  renew 
old  friendships,  and  of  all  the  Lasell  girls 
whom  we  saw,  and  about  whom  we  heard  such 
good  reports,  we  are  very  proud. 

Clara  A.  Winslow. 


THE  HONOR  LIST 


During  the  war-months  that  have  passed 
the  Honor  List  in  the  Supplement  has  con- 
tained some  names,  at  least,  of  the  boys  spe- 
cially near  to  our  girls,  both  from  Canada  and 
the  States,  and  has  chronicled  as  best  it  could 
their  faithful  service.  Now  that  the  war  is 
over  it  is  fitting  that  a  final  word  be  said. 
Some  will  remember  "The  Greeting"  of  the 
Congregational  Church  which  weekly  found 
its  way  into  the  Post-Office  boxes.  A  part  of 
the  message  of  the  copy  of  last  week  shall 
speak  for  us.  Let  the  "returning  boys"  this 
time  be  the  fathers,  sons,  brothers  and  lovers 
of  the  Lasell  girls. 

"The  joy  of  welcoming  home  our  return- 
ing boys  is  of  the  kind  that  one  experiences  in 
only  the  great  moments  of  a  lifetime.  To 
these  lovely  spring  days  of  1919  are  now  added 
a  new  glory  and  a  deep  and  beautiful  signifi- 
cance which  can  never  be  lost.  What  our  boys 
did  on  the  fields  of  France  and  of  Belgium  was 
a  decisive  factor  in  settling  the  momentous 
issues  of  the  great  war  and  settling  them 
right.  They  went  forth  on  the  greatest  cru- 
sade ever  undertaken  in  the  history  of  the 
world.  There  they  displayed  such  high  qual- 
ities of  courage,  enthusiasm,  efficiency  and 
brilliancy  of  action  as  to  arouse  the  admira- 
tion of  the  world,  and  such  fidelity  to  the  no- 
ble and  manly  ideals  of  the  true  soldier  as  to 
give  lasting  honor  to  the  flag  which  they 
dauntlessly  carried  forward  to  victory.  There 
are  today  portions  of  the  soil  of  France  and 
Belgium  that  shall  be  forever  sacred  to  Amer- 
ica and  to  the  lovers  of  freedom  everywhere, 


because  here  not  a  few  of  our  soldier  boys 
gave  the  'last  full  measure  of  devotion.'  In 
bur  days  of  rejoicing  we  cannot  forget  this, 
nor  the  homes  that  have  been  saddened  and 
also  supremely  hallowed  by  love's  supreme 
sacrifice.  With  hearts  full  of  gratitude,  there- 
fore, we  welcome  home  these,  our  returning 
boys  so  graciously  spared  to  us.  ...  It 
seems  as  though  the  very  trees  were  clapping 
their  hands  for  joy  !" 


GIVE  JIM   A  CHANCE 

By  Leigh  Richmond  Miner. 

Deah   Lawd,    so    thankfu',    and    I'se   liftin'   a 

prayer — 
My  boy  Jim's  safe  back  from  ovah  thaih 

An'  I'se  dat  gratefu',  Jim's  done  his  part 
I'se  gwine  give  yo'  praise  from  dis  ol'  hea't. 

Dat  look  uv  glory  what  goin'  made 
I  craves  to  ax,  Lawd,  don't  let  it  fade 

Outen  Jim's  eyes — seem  lak  he's  been 
Long  de  paf  we-all  jes  missed  a'see'n; 

Lawd,  keep  dat  vision  cl'ar  'fore  his  eyes, 
Lest  Jim  slip  back  whaih  darkness  lies 

So  heavy  dat  nary  one  can  see 

In  Jim  de  man  what  he's  meant  to  be. 

Dey  says  dat  Jim  done  right  sma't  in  France 
But  hyeah,  Lawd,  I  ax,  give  Jim  his  chance. 

From  The  Outlook. 


THE   CHICAGO   CLUB 


The  Lasell  Club  of  Chicago  held  its  spring 
reunion  on  the  evening  of  April  25th  in  the 
Chicago  Club  rooms.  Meeting  for  a  seven 
o'clock  dinner  and  extending  an  invitation  to 
the  husbands  and  parents  of  the  members  was 
an  innovation  which  proved  very  pleasant. 
There  were  about  forty  present.  After  an  in- 
formal social  half -hour,  the  company  was  seat- 


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ed  at  small  round  tables,  and  a  delicious  din- 
ner served,  after  which  Mrs.  Edith  McClure 
Patterson,  the  President  of  the  Club,  called 
upon  Major  Funkhouser,  the  father  of  Julia 
and  Louise,  to  speak.  He  said  a  few  words 
in  commendation  of  the  school  which  he  chose 
for  his  daughters,  and  then  to  the  regret  of  all 
he  was  obliged  to  leave.  He  has  been  doing  a 
great  work  in  Chicago  toward  the  cleaning  up 
of  the  city,  especially  in  regard  to  its  moving 
pictures. 

Dr.  Winslow  was  then  called  upon  and  told 
the  latest  news  of  the  school,  answering  many 
questions  asked  by  the  girls.  After  a  few 
words  by  Mrs.  Winslow,  and  the  reading  of  a 
letter  from  Julia  Anderson  Willems  thanking 
the  Club  for  its  generous  gift  of  one  hundred 
dollars  to  her  hospital  in  France,  Mrs.  Pat- 
terson introduced  Miss  Harriet  Vittum,  the 
Head  Resident  of  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity Settlement,  who  very  forcibly  presented 
the  deplorable  condition  of  the  crowded  for- 
eign districts  of  Chicago.  She  made  a  strong 
appeal  to  the  women,  as  well  as  the  men,  to 
do  their  utmost  toward  the  betterment  of  liv- 
ing conditions  in  Chicago. 

Upon  recommendation  of  the  nominating 
committee  by  its  chairman,  Miss  Margherita 
Dike,  the  following  officers  were  chosen  for 
the  ensuing  year :  President,  Edith  McClure 
Patterson ;  Vice-President,  Mona  Ryan  In- 
man ;  Secretary,  Margaret  Gregson  Barker ; 
Treasurer,  Louise  Funkhouser  Williams. 

Under  Mrs.  Patterson's  efficient  leadership 
the  Club  has  accomplished  much  in  the  line  of 
war  work,  and  in  enthusiasm  and  loyalty.  The 
evening  closed  with  an  opportunity  for  more 
visiting.  Among  some  of  the  interesting  per- 
sonals afloat  were  the  following:  That  Fran- 
ces Bragdon  is  managing  a  canteen  in  Europe  ; 
that  Alma  Bunch  is  in  charge  of  a  department 
in  an  Army  Medical  Supply  Depot  in  Chi- 
cago ;  Fanny  Brookfield  Butler  was  on  her 
way  to  New  York  to  meet  her  husband,  a 
Major,  returning  from  France ;  Grace  Emer- 
son Cole  has  a  three  months'  old  baby ;  Bess 
Emerine   is   studying  in  a   Business   College ; 


Elizabeth  Welty  Foreman  is  manager  of  Red 
Cross  work,  including  twelve  auxiliaries  in 
Bloomington  ;  Adolphia  Garnsey  had  a  fine  po- 
sition in  Field's  Tiffany  department  until  her 
mother's  health  compelled  her  to  give  it  up ; 
Helen  Gilbert  is  in  Red  Cross  work;  Mar- 
celine  Gronberg  has  been  in  the  Chicago  Art 
Institute ;  Lucinda  Obermeyer  expects  to  at- 
tend the  Lasell  Commencement ;  Lucille  Guer- 
tin  is  at  Fort  Porter,  Buffalo,  in  a  Reconstruc- 
tion Hospital ;  Ina  Harber  is  at  Camp  Sher- 
man ;  Blanche  Harber  Hart's  father  has  died 
very  recently,  the  same  being  true  of  the 
father  of  Edna  Mathews  Condit ;  Mona  Ryan 
Inman  is  in  Europe  driving  a  truck ;  Barbara 
Jones  is  soon  to  be  married  and  to  move  to 
Chicago ;  Margaret  Jones  is  in  the  Y.W.C.A. 
Hostess  House  at  Great  Lakes ;  Jennie  Max- 
well is  doing  valuable  work  for  the  civilian 
blind  at  the  "Lighthouse,"  Chicago ;  Florence 
Myers  is  doing  canteen  work  in  Europe  ;  Helen 
Mayer  Oppenheimer  and  Annie  Wessell 
Stransky  are  doing  canteen  work  in  Chicago ; 
Lydia  Rich  is  in  a  boarding  school  and  Mary 
Rich  taking  a  Kindergarten  course ;  Dorothy 
Rogers  is  travelling  saleswoman  for  Ginn  & 
Co. ;  Edith  Harber  Wright's  husband  is  a 
Captain  in  aviation ;  Agnes  Wright  is  in  a 
Hostess  House  at  Camp  Grant ;  Bess  Beno  is 
in  Alaska ;  Ella  Eberling  Wolfersperger  living 
in  a  mining  camp ;  and  last  but  not  of  least 
importance,  Margherita  Dike  announced  her 
engagement  and  expects  to  be  married  in  the 
fall. 

The  Lasell  Club  of  Chicago  is  keeping  up 
the  high  standard  of  service  expected  of 
Lasell  girls  everywhere.  The  following  is  a 
list  of  those  present. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Auld  (Bertha  Hax,  1885). 

Margaret  Gregson  Barker,   1914. 

Gertrude  Buettner,  1917. 

Alma  Bunch,  1913. 

Margherita  Dike,   1910. 

Bess  Emerine,  1915. 

Pauline  Fera,  1917. 

Christine  Frank,  1902. 

Helen  Guertin,  1917. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hardy  (Emily  ■Brookfield, 
1902). 

Mr.  Jones  and  Florence  Jones,  1912. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kattelle  (Nellie  Feagles, 
1897). 

Mrs.  Mai  and  Edna  Mai,  1917. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mellin  (Julia  Funkhouser, 
1907) . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  (Elizabeth  Thielens, 
1904). 

Mrs.  Obermeyer  and  Lucinda  Obermeyer, 
1918. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Patterson  (Edith  McClure, 
1902). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peeples  (Mary  Thielens, 
1904). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schmidt  (Julia  Potter,  1906). 

Mr.  William  T.  Shepherd. 

Cornelia  Stone,  1910. 

Louisa  Funkhouser  Williams,   1909. 

Mrs.  Loomis  and  Miss  Margaret  Loomis  (a 
future  Lasell  girl). 

Major  and  Mrs.  Funkhouser. 

Miss   Harriet  Vittum. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow. 


A  GOOD  EXAMPLE 


Two  of  our  graduates  set  a  good  example  to 
the  rest  of  the  graduates  on  a  recent  Sunday, 
when  they  came  and  spent  a  part  of  the  day 
with  us.  These  were  Ruth  Bachelder,  '12,  and 
Lucile  Joscelyn,  '15.  Ruth  is  continuing  her 
good  work  as  head  of  the  Home  Economics 
department  in  Concord,  Mass. ;  Lucile  is  tak- 
ing an  intensive  course  in  Home  Service  under 
the  Red  Cross,  that  she  may-  start  a  chapter  in 
her  home  town  in  Caribou,  Maine.  Ruth  is 
to  be  officially  connected  this  summer  with 
Mrs.  Laura  Richards'  Camp  for  small  boys 
at  Belgrade  Lakes,  Maine. 

They  brought  us  good  news  also  from  a 
number  of  the  other  girls.  Ruth  spent  her 
Easter  vacation  in  Washington,  and  with  real 
Lasell  spirit  found  several  of  our  girls,  busy 
with  worth-while  "jobs."  Ruth  Butterworth 
is  in  the  Latin-American  Department  of  the 


Government  and  is  very  much  interested  in 
her  research  work  concerning  the  living  con- 
ditions in  Brazil  and  other  parts  of  South 
America.  She  had  a  large  part  in  preparing 
a  Bulletin  on  this  subject,  which  was  sent  to 
the  Peace  Conference.  (Her  sister  Emily  is 
married  and  living  in  Vermont — Mrs.  Pritch- 
ard.) 

Esther  Morey  is  in  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment at  Washington.  Clara  Parker  is  in  the 
War  Trade  Department  and  is  working  on 
and  helping  in  the  preparation  of  reports  on 
the  "Living  Conditions  in  the  United  States." 
Her  address  is  2069  Park  Road. 

Lucile  tells  us  that  her  sister  Wilhelmina, 
now  Mrs.  Swett,  is  living  in  Caribou  in  their 
new  bungalow  and  that  Baby  Ruth,  now  two 
and  a  half  years  old,  is  adorable.  Evelyn 
Whidden,  not  far  away  at  Presque  Isle,  is  a 
leader  in  all  good  works.  Elizabeth  Richards 
of  Fort  Fairfield  she  occasionally  sees  or  hears 
from.  Helen  Foster  is  a  very  successful  music 
teacher  and  organist  in  Newport  and  Orleans 
Vermont.  Elizabeth  Edson  is  back  in  Mexico, 
but  not  in  her  old  home. 

Miriam  Flynn,  '12,  is  going  to  France  this 
month  under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.W.C.A.  to 
help  in  the  entertainment  of  the  soldiers  still 
over  there. 

Nell  Carneal,  TO,  is  in  Auburndale  for  a 
few  days.  She  is  studying  piano,  violin  and 
voice  at  the  Damrosch  Institute  of  Musical 
Art  in  New  York  City. 


LIFE  MEMBERSHIPS 


The  number  of  life  memberships  in  the 
Lasell  Alumnae  is  slowing  growing  and  to  the 
pioneers  in  this  undertaking  the  association  is 
grateful.     They  are : 

Flarriett  G.  Scott,  '94. 

Lela  H.  Goodall,  '08. 

Laura  Case  Viot,  '08. 

Alice  Andreeson  Kountze,  '95. 

Blanche  Gardner  Peeler,  '00. 

Ida  Sibley  Webber,  '84. 

Gladys  M.  Lawton,  '11. 


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SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  LASELL 
CLUB 


Instead  of  a  report  of  the  details  of  this  an- 
nual gathering  of  this  club  we  are  favored 
with  a  little  glimpse  into  the  real  event 
through  the  picture  which  we  are  glad  to  pre- 
sent. With  the  aid  of  the  list  below  you  will 
find  some  of  your  friends. 

The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  South- 
ern California  Lasell  Club  was  held  March 
eighteenth.  It  was  a  one  o'clock  luncheon  at 
the  Hotel  Alexandria.    Those  who  came  were  : 

Dr.  Bragdon,  Honorary  President 

Caroline  Thomson   Moore,   President 

Catherine  Kendrick  Cole,   Secretary 

Irene  Benner  Brotherton,  Treasurer 

Mrs.  Charles  C.  Bragdon 

Louise  Wadleigh  Bedall 

Jeannette   Kiser 

Elizabeth   Lum 

Mrs.  Lewis  G.  Ogden 

Bertha  Gray  Richards 

Amy  Phillips 

Miss   (Mary?)    Seaman 

Helen    (Campbell?)   Rousseau 

Lois  Thomas 

Kitty  Clemens 

Louise  Whitney  Weaver    (Mrs.  Ralph) 

Ina  Scott  Bryant 

Leona  Benner  Brotherton 

Isabelle  Bowers  Church 

Mrs.  George  Colburn 

Emilie   Kothe   Collins 

Ellen  Chase 

Laura  Chase 

Ruth  Young  Casson 

Helen  Scott  Dougan  (Mrs.  J.  B.) 


Mrs.  Elgar  Hibbard 

Elizabeth  Kiser   (Mrs.  Wells  M.)   Irwin 

Lucy  Muth  Kinney 

Kate  Wheldon  Plumb 


Copy  of  letter  received  January  27th  from 
Julia  Anderson  Willems  (Lasell,  1894)  in 
acknowledgment  of  check  for  one  hundred 
dollars  sent  to  her  by  the  Lasell  Club  of  Chi- 
cago and  to  which  you  contributed. 

Societe  Immobiliere  de  la  Cote  Basque 
Hospital  Bcnevole  83  bis  Domaine  D'llbarritz 

Bid  art  ( Basses-Pyrcnnes) 
Administration  ct  Direction  :  C.  H.  Willems 

January  1st,  1919. 
My  dear  Mrs.  Patterson  : 

The  Lasell  Club  check  forwarded  to  me  by 
my  sister  reached  me  in  time  to  add  it  to  our 
Christmas  Treat  fund,  the  other  half  of  it  be- 
ing a  fund  gathered  together  for  the  purpose 
by  my  two  little  nieces,  Martha  Hawley  and 
Louise  Anderson.  My  husband  and  I  felt  that 
there  was  no  way  in  which  we  could  use  this 
gift — which  would  give  greater  pleasure  to 
our  boys  than  in  giving  them  a  very  gay  and 
happy  Christmas  with  a  luncheon  such  as  they 
haven't  seen  since  pre-war  days.  They  have 
been  so  wonderfully  patient,  spending  month 
after  month,  and  in  many  cases  over  two  years, 
flat  on  their  backs  in  their  hard  little  narrow 
beds  (necessary  for  their  treatment)  and  in 
plaster  jackets  besides,  that  we  long  to  add 
luxuries  to  the  every  day  necessities  from 
time  to  time.     I   wish  you   could  have   seen 


LASELL    LEAVES 


their  real  Christmas  cheer  when  their  luncheon 
was  served.  Each  man  had  a  dozen  oysters 
(we  had  170  dozen  sent  down  from  a  little 
town  farther  along  the  coast),  then  the  nour- 
ishing soup  we  give  them  twice  a  day  made 
with  bones  and  every  vegetable  we  can  find  in 
the  market,  then  came  the  dish  beloved  of  the 
Poilu,  sausages  and  fried  potatoes,  then  roast 
chicken  and  salad,  and  the  crowning  feature 
of  the  banquet,  pastry,  which  none  of  us  had 
tasted  for  over  two  years,  apple  tart,  first 
cousin  to  apple  pie,  and  custard,  and  a  cup  of 
hot  coffee  to  finish.  Such  singing  of  "Made- 
Ion,  Madelon,"  "le  Pinard,"  "La  Marseillaise" 
and  other  favorites.  It  was  a  joy  to  see  it 
and  I  wished  that  you  might  all  be  there.  I 
bad  told  them  that  the  luncheon  was  a  gift 
from  friends  in  America  who  wanted  them  to 
have  a  happy  Christmas,  so  they  asked  me  to 
send  their  thanks  and  their  good  wishes  to 
you  all.  The  American  Fund  for  French 
wounded  had  sent  a  comfort  bag  for  each 
man,  so  it  seemed  as  if  the  horn  of  plenty 
had  been  turned  full  in  Ilbarritz  for  our  last 
Christmas  together,  for  I  suppose  that  before 
next  Christmas  the  Benevole  Hospitals  will 
be  closed  and  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers 
gathered  together  into  permanent  quarters — 
but  we  shall  keep  going  for  at  least  six 
months — and  shall  see  that  our  boys  who  have 
not  completed  their  cure  at  that  time  are  placed 

where  they  will  have  good  care 

With  every  good  wish  to  you,  believe  me  to 
be  Most  sincerely  yours, 

(signed)   Julia  Anderson  IVillems. 

Sent  by  Edith  McClure  Patterson. 


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CONTENTS 


FRONTISPIECE 

I  LITERARY 

Alma 

Gossip 


C.  Aguirre       5 
.  D.  Brown       6 


EDITORIAL 


8 


LOCALS  9 

I'  WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES  27 

PERSONAL 29 

'JOKES 34 


EXCHANGES 35 


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POEMS 


"There  is  no  lyric  can  surpass 

Morning  wind  in  orchard  grass, 

That  dips  and  swells  and  dives  along, 

And  winnows  out  a  silver  song 

Of  sun  and  air  and  orchard  grass : 

This  no  lyric  can  suroass. 

There  is   no   epic  that  can  be 

Half   so  epic  as   the  sea 

That  chants  in  caverns  green  and  old 

A  story  that  is  never  told 

Of  cities  dead  and  ships  at  rest, 

And  moons  that  rode  upon  her  breast." 

— Ex. 


ALMA 

"Father,"  cried  little  Olga,  "isn't  that 
shooting  going  to  stop  soon?  Aren't  we  ever 
going  to  have  lights  again  ?  Oh,  I'm  afraid ! 
I  want  more  light !" 

"My  dear,"  replied  Mr.  Roman,  rousing 
himself  with  a  painful  effort,  "be  patient. 
This  will  be  over  soon — perhaps  in  two  days. 
Then  the  revolutionaries  will  be  gone  and  we 
shall  have  lights  again." 

Overcome  by  drowsiness,  Olga  and  her 
younger  brother  Rene  soon  fell  asleep.  But 
for  Alma,  the  eldest  child,  the  flower  of  the 
family,  there  was  no  rest.  In  subdued  voices 
she  and  her  sick  father  talked  of  the  danger 
surrounding  them  and  of  the  possibility  of 
escape.  At  length  in  the  spacious  darkened 
room  silence  fell  upon  them,  interrupted  from 
time  to  time  only  by  the  mournful  howl  of 
some  lost  dog  and  by  the  "Quien  Vive?"  of 
the  sentinel  whose  footsteps  made  a  hollow 
sound  on  the  paved  walk. 

As  morning  drew  near,  they  were  all  roused 
once  more  by  the  roaring  of  the  cannon  which 
made  the  house  tremble.    Then  came  the  con- 


stant, irritating  noise  of  the  machine  guns  and 
the  dry,  sharp  click  of  the  muskets.  On 
Alma's  face  an  expression  of  despair  was 
painted.  She  had  hoped  that  the  fighting 
would  not  start  so  early  and  that  she  would  be 
able  to  go  out  for  supplies ;  for  there  was 
hardly  any  food  left  in  the  house. 

For  five  days  the  revolutionaries  had  been 
attacking  Las  Sedas  by  assault.  They  had 
fought  with  all  their  might ;  nevertheless  they 
were  unable  to  take  possession  of  the  town. 
The  government  soldiers  who  defended  it  had 
been  making  use  of  several  schemes  in  order 
to  indicate  that  they  were  well  equipped  with 
ammunition  and  that  they  had  a  great  number 
of  troops.  In  reality  they  had  neither  of 
these.  Their  method  was  very  simple.  They 
had  placed  a  little  machine  gun  in  an  automo- 
bile. Then  they  had  fired  from  one  corner 
and  before  any  answer  had  come,  they  had  run 
to  the  next  corner  and  fired  from  there.  In 
that  way  they  had  been  fighting  for  the  last 
five  days.  Several  times  messengers  had  been 
sent  to  the  nearest  towns  asking  for  rein- 
forcements, but  none  of  their  requests  had 
been  heeded. 

Las  Sedas  was  just  a  little  town  in  the 
South  of  Mexico  in  the  state  of  Oaxaca. 
From  the  beginning  of  the  revolution,  it  had 
lost  communication  with  the  rest  of  the  towns 
so  that  the  transportation  of  soldiers  was  a 
thing  almost  impossible.  After  these  long 
days  of  fighting,  her  defenders  were  exhausted 
and  so  short  of  artillery  that  they  were  almost 
sure  that  the  victory  could  not  be  theirs.  Still 
they  were  brave  and  had  decided  to  die  rather 
than  to  surrender.  During  all  these  days  the 
shops  had  been  closed  with  the  exception  of 


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two  or  three  bakeries ;  few  people  dared  to 
venture  out.  In  nearly  every  case  those  who, 
half  starved,  had  gone  out,  after  having  de- 
cided to  take  a  chance,  had  been  instantly 
killed  or  wounded.  That  was  the  reason  for 
Alma's  despair ;  for  that  evening  she  would 
not  have  any  food  for  her  little  brother  and 
sister  or  for  her  sick  father. 

The  fighting  had  continued  steadily  all  the 
morning.  About  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
there  came  a  short  lull.  As  Alma  was  stand- 
ing near  the  window,  she  saw  a  man  carrying 
a  basket  full  of  bread  along  the  next  block. 
She  at  once  ran  out  of  the  room  intending  to 
stop  him,  without  thinking  of  what  the  con- 
sequence would  be.  She  had  already  bought 
the  bread  and  was  coming  back.  Suddenly  a 
short,  sharp  whistle  was  heard.  A  bullet  had 
passed  just  over  her  head.  In  less  than  a  sec- 
ond, another  was  heard  and  again  a  third. 
Then  she  realized  that  the  shots  were  intended 
for  her.  In  an  instant  she  threw  herself  down 
upon  the  ground  but  not  before  another  bullet 
was  sent,  this  time  so  near  her  that  it  grazed 
her  right  shoulder.  In  that  position  she  re- 
mained until,  thinking  her  dead,  the  men  paid 
no  more  attention  to  her.  Then  she  dragged 
herself  along  until  she  reached  her  house.  Be- 
tween them,  her  father  and  the  two  children 
tried  to  dress  her  wound  which,  though  ap- 
parently insignificant,  was  causing  her  great 
pain.  This,  however,  she  did  not  tell  her 
father,  afraid  as  she  was  of  augmenting  his 
sufferings. 

It  was  about  ten  o'clock  that  evening  be- 
fore everything  was  again  silent.  Nobody 
knew  whether  the  fighting  had  ceased  and  the 
revolutionaries  had  retired,  or  whether  the 
government  troops  had  surrendered.  Sudden- 
ly from  all  sides  were  heard  desperate  screams  : 
"Fire  !"  "Fire  !"  "The  town  is  on  fire  !"  In- 
credible !  so  it  seemed  to  Alma ;  but,  as  she 
looked  out  to  the  street,  what  did  she  see 
but  that  the  adjoining  wing  of  their  own  house 
was  beginning  to  burn.  White  and  trembling, 
she  fell  into  a  sort  of  stupor  for  a  few  mo- 
ments until  Rene  pulled  at  her  skirts  in  ter- 
ror and  begged  her  to  get  them  out  of  the 


house.  Mechanically  she  gathered  a  few 
treasures,  helped  her  father  to  move  and,  call- 
ing Olga  to  her  side,  led  them  to  the  street. 

Outside  the  noise  was  deafening.  The 
women  were  praying  aloud,  the  children  cry- 
ing and  the  men  vociferating  imprecations. 
Everyone  tried  to  be  the  first  to  leave  the 
town.  Some  women  carried  bundles  of  cloth- 
ing, others  had  seized  their  kitchen  utensils. 
The  confusion  and  the  desperation  of  the 
crowd  were  indescribable. 

Alma  with  her  little  family  had  tried  her 
best  to  push  on  and  make  her  way  to  the 
mountains.  After  having  walked  several 
miles,  they  at  length  had  reached  the  top  of 
a  mountain  and'  had  chosen  a  little  cave  as  a 
place  for  rest.  From  there  they  could  con- 
template the  devastation  of  their  dear  little 
town.  Alma's  father  could  no  longer  refrain 
from  tears  and,  with  his  arms  around  her  neck, 
he  cried  like  a  child. 

They  were  soon  roused  from  their  own 
sorrows  by  hearing  a  cry  which  was  more  like 
a  groan.  Alma  thought  that  it  might  possibly 
have  come  from  some  wounded  person  lying 
near  there.  She  was  not  mistaken,  for  just 
a  few  steps  from  their  cave  they  found  a  sol- 
dier in  desperate  agony,  asking  for  a  drink 
of  water.  Alma  bandaged  his  wounds  as  best 
she  could.  After  his  thirst  was  quenched,  he 
felt  much  better  and  was  able  to  tell  his  story. 
Oscar,  for  such  was  the  name  of  the  soldier, 
having  become  separated  from  his  battalion 
and  not  knowing  where  his  family  was,  went 
on  with  them  further  up  the  mountains. 
There  they  lived  for  a  year,  always  hiding 
from  the  bandits,  moving  from  place  to  place 
and  having  for  shelter  the  abandoned  little 
huts  of  some  peasants  who  had  left  their 
homes  and  gone  to  the  city  thinking  that  there 
they  could  be  safer. 

At  last  happy  news  came  to  Mr.  Roman. 
Several  Indians  who  travelled  from  place  to 
place  selling  their  merchandise,  had  come  up- 
on them  and  told  them  that  Las  Sedas,  al- 
though deserted,  was  now  calm  and  that  the 
bandits  had  entirely  retired.  After  this,  Mr. 
Roman  began  to  long  for  his  old  home.    Since 


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his  sickness  had  become  worse  on  account  of 
the  poor  food  that  they  had  been  having,  he 
feared  that  he  would  never  see  his  native  town 
again.  Alma,  who  was  always  trying  to  please 
her  dear  father,  promised  him  that  their  home 
would  be  rebuilt  before  her  wedding  to  Oscar, 
to  which  Mr.  Roman  had  gladly  consented. 

After  this  promise  they  cautiously  made 
their  way  back  to  the  little  town.  Nobody 
was  now  living  there  except  a  poor  old  priest, 
who  had  built  a  little  hut  and  had  improvised 
an  altar  with  an  image  of  the  Sacred  Heart. 
Having  obtained  the  help  of  some  of  the  neigh- 
boring people,  they  soon  built  a  house,  far  less 
spacious  than  the  old  one  but  precious  after 
all  their  hardships.  A  few  weeks  later,  the 
priest's  little  chapel  was  filled  by  a  multitude 
of  people  from  the  neighboring  towns  who 
had  come  to  the  wedding  of  the  first  rebuild- 
ers  of  the  memorable  little  town  of  Las  Sedas. 

C.  Agnirre. 


GOSSIP 


The  Red  Cross  workroom  was  buzzing  with 
indignant  voices.  The  War  Work  Campaign 
reports  were  in  and,  as  in  the  former  cam- 
paigns, Zenas  Clark  had  not  given  a  cent. 

"That  rich  old  miser !"  said  Mrs.  Burke, 
the  chairman  of  the  canvassing  committee. 
"He  is  wealthier  than  anyone  in  the  country, 
and  yet  he  refuses  to  lift  a  finger  to  help  his 
country !" 

"It  isn't  as  if  he  were  pro-German,  either," 
said  another  worker.  "He's  as  British  as 
King  George  himself,  and  his  two  nephews 
are  in  the  war.  He  doesn't  even  argue  that 
he's  given  enough  by  giving  his  only  relatives. 
He  only  says  he  won't  contribute  one  penny 
to  satisfy  those  fool  women  gossips." 

And  so  the  meeting  went  on.  Meantime 
Zenas  Clark,  the  man  in  question,  was  sitting 
in    his    lonely    home,    chuckling    to    himself. 

"Too  bad  to  change  the  poor  old  ladies' 
opinion  of  me,"  he  said.  "They  think  it's  quite 
a  curiosity  to  have  a  miser  in  town  and  it 
would  have  been  a  shame  to  disappoint  them 
by  subscribing  to  the  campaign." 


The  next  morning  the  committee  of  patri- 
otic women,  still  hot  with  anger,  were  found 
in  the  district  attorney's  office,  laying  their 
case  before  him.  It  was  high  time,  they  said, 
that  something  was  done  about  Zenas  Clark. 
Xo  one  had  ever  suspected  he  wasn't  for  the 
Allies,  even  though  he  refused  to  subscribe  to 
all  patriotic  campaigns,  for  allowances  had 
to  be  made  for  his  meanness.  But  when  he 
was  actually 'seen  giving  a  sealed  package  of 
papers  to  a  strange  man,  the  time  had  come 
to  investigate  the  affair. 

The  attorney  listened  to  the  story  with  in- 
terest, yet  it  seemed  to  Mrs.  Burke  that  at 
times  a  half  smile  was  on  his  face.  When 
she  had  finished  her  case,  he  reached  for  the 
phone  and  gave  a  number. 

"Have  someone  come  over  with  those  papers 
you  got  from  Clark,  will  you?"  he  asked. 

The  excited  women  waited.  In  a  few  min- 
utes a  messenger  arrived.  "From  the  First 
National  Bank,"  he  announced,  as  he  laid  a 
package  of  Liberty  Bonds  in  the  lawyer's 
hands. 

"This,"  said  the  attorney,  "is  what  you  saw 
Clark  delivering  to  one  of  the  state  commit- 
tee who  was  here  recently.  This  is  what  put 
the  city  over  the  top  in  the  last  loan — Clark's 
subscription.  Now  I  think  if  you  look  over  the 
list  of  those  who  gave  to  this  campaign  you 
have  been  managing,  you  will  find  the  largest 
amount  was  subscribed  by  Horton  Brooks." 

"Yes,"  said  Mrs.  Burke,  "that  is  true,  but 
no  one  knows  Horton  Brooks.  His  subscrip- 
tions came  by  mail.  AVhere  is  the  connection  ?" 

"Brooks  and  Clark  are  the  same,"  said  the 
attorney.  "Clark  is  really  a  jolly  old  fellow 
and  there's  no  accounting  for  his  whims.  He's 
always  been  a  good  friend  of  mine,  and  he 
told  me  confidentially  that  Zenas  Clark  wasn't 
going  to  give  a  cent,  for  that  would  spoil  the 
women's  fun,  and  they  wouldn't  have  any- 
thing to  gossip  about  if  he  ceased  being  a 
miser." 

The  women  left  the  attorney's  office  that 
morning  with  something  really  to  talk  about. 

D.  Brozvn. 


EDITORIAL 


The  return  of  so  many  former  students 
added  much  to  the  delights  of  Commencement. 
The  members  of  '89  especially  showed  the  real 
Lasell  spirit.  Their  enthusiasm  set  us  to 
thinking  of  the  things  which  make  school  life 
dear.  We  were  glad  to  have  had  a  share  in 
welcoming  them  and  the  many  others  who  en- 
joyed the  closing  days  here. 

The  girls  of  1919  are  sure  of  our  good 
wishes  as  they  sever  the  close  school  relations 
of  the  past  years.  They  can  always  count  on 
our  friendship  and  interest.  In  many  ways 
they  have  helped  and  encouraged  us.  To 
Carry  on  without  them  will  seem  hard  at  first. 
We  hope  they  will  remember  us  as  faithfully 
as  we  shall  keep  them  in  our  hearts.  Let  us 
hear  from  you  often,  dear  girls  of  1919. 

A  happy  summer  to  all !  Don't  forget  to 
save  snap-shots  and  to  keep  a  mental  record 
of  any  interesting  trips  or  happenings  of  your 
vacation !  The  Leaves  is  always  open  to  new 
experiences. 


"The  old  regret  is  turned  to  smiles, 

That  parting  sigh  to  greeting; 
We   send   our   heart-throbs   many   miles, 

Through  every  line  'tis  beating; 
God  grant  you  many  happy  years, 

Till  when  the  last  has   crowned  you, 
The  dawn  of  endless  day  appears, 

And  Heaven  is  shining  round  you." 


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ly grateful  for  its  gift  of  the  beautiful  edition 
of  Shakespeare. 


On  Friday  evening,  May  9,  the  girls  of 
the  Spanish  department  gave  an  entertain- 
ment in  the  gymnasium  under  the  direction  of 
Senora  Orozco.  It  was  in  the  form  of  a  rural 
Spanish  school.  The  girls  took  their  parts 
successfully  and  afforded  much  amusement  to 
all  present.  Another  feature  was  a  little  scene 
between  a  Spanish  lady  and  a  public  letter 
writer,  whose  ideas  of  a  love  missive  do  not 
please  her.  This  was  given  by  Concepcion 
Aguirre  and  Rosenda  Cabrera.  After  the  en- 
tertainment, Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  received 
the  Faculty  and  the  Spanish  girls  in  the  par- 
lors, where  dainty  refreshments  were  served. 
Christian  Endeavor  on  Tuesday,  May  6,  was 
led  by  Virginia  Quarles.  She  read  us  a  help- 
ful poem  entitled  "How  We  Live  as  Men,"  by 
Edgar  Guest. 

Edith    Vance    led    Christian    Endeavor    on 
Tuesday  evening,  May  13.     Her  subject  was 

I  thinking  of  others  before  ourselves.    By  prac- 

I  ticing  this,  we  ourselves  would  be  much  hap- 
pier and  would  bring  greater  happiness  to  oth- 

|i  ers. 

At  seven  o'clock  Saturday  evening,  May  10, 
the  Juniors  went  to  the  Gymnasium  where  the 

1  Senior  "Bolshevists,"  arrayed  in  wild  cos- 
tumes were  waiting  to  entertain  them.  A 
unique  dinner  was  served  immediately.  An 
orchestra  furnished  excellent  music  for  danc- 
ing "between  bites,"   and  the   trap   drummer 


sang  several  catchy  songs.  The  tragedy  acted 
by  Miss  Alden  and  Miss  Webster,  the  solo 
given  by  Miss  Chase,  and  the  dance  by  Miss 
Vance  were  all  remarkable.  After  the  re- 
freshments had  been  served,  the  long  tables 
were  cleared  away  and  everybody  enjoyed 
dancing  until  the  last  strains  of  "Till  We  Meet 
Again"  called  forth  happy  goodnights. 

Saturday  evening,  May  17,  was  the  occasion 
of  much  joy,  for  the  Junior  class  entertained 
the  Freshmen  in  the  gymnasium.  It  was  very 
prettily  decorated  with  Japanese  parasols  and 
lanterns.  Dance  orders  were  in  the  form  of 
Japanese  fans.  The  girls  of  both  classes 
dressed  in  costume.  This  fact  also  helped  to 
make  the  party  a  very  attractive  one. 

We  had  for  our  speaker  for  vespers  May 
18  Mrs.  Carey,  a  missionary  from  Japan. 
Mrs.  Carey's  message  was  that  Japan  "needed 
us."  She  told  us  about  the  work  that  was 
being  done  in  the  kindergartens,  Sunday 
schools,  and  the  churches.  She  urged  us  to 
be  quick  to  respond  if  ever  a  message  came 
to  us  to  aid  Japan. 

Generosity  of  spirit  and  self-forgetfulness 
in  giving  made  the  theme  for  an  inspiring  talk 
by  Dr.  Sullivan  of  Newton  Centre  on  May  11. 
After  discussing  the  stories  of  three  women 
of  the  Bible  who  will  always  be  remembered 
for  their  wise  but  seemingly  wasteful  gifts, 


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he  urged  us  to  place  beside  theirs  our  own 
names. 

May  27  at  the  Christian  Endeavor  meeting 
Miriam  Bell  read  from  the  messages  of  Mar- 
garet Slattery  two  prayers  which  contained 
helpful  ideas,  one  was  that  of  a  selfish  girl ; 
the  other  that  of  a  quick  tempered  girl. 

Saturday,  June  7,  there  was  a  parade  of  the 
returned  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  Newton 
district.  All  were  in  automobiles  and  respond- 
ed joyously  to  the  cheers  they  received.  The 
Lasell  girls  did  their  best  to  make  their  wel- 
come a  jolly  one.  Bragdon  Hall  was  dec- 
orated with  banners  and  flags  and  the  girls  of 
that  building  joined  by  those  from  Bancroft, 
formed  an  "L"  on  the  sloping  lawn.  They 
were  all  dressed  in  white  and  some  carried 
red  balloons  while  others  had  blue  ones. 
When  the  boys  passed  by,  they  cheered  them 
heartily.  Clark  Cottage,  across  the  way,  did 
its  share  of  cheering.  Here  the  girls  wore 
red,  white,  and  blue  caps.  Berkeley  and  Haw- 
thorne met  at  Carpenter  Hall  and  reports  are 
that  their  cheering  was  not  lacking.  No  one 
doubts  the  success  Gardner  had  in  adding  its 
welcome  to  the  boys  as  they  rode  past  the 
Senior  House. 


THE  PLYMOUTH  TRIP 


On  May  19,  Miss  Rand  chaperoned  the 
Lasell  party  on  its  annual  trip  to  Plymouth. 
This  is  such  an  interesting  trip  that  it  is  al- 
ways looked  forward  to  with  a  great  deal  of 
pleasure. 

Arriving  at  Plymouth  station  we  were  met. 
by  a  number  of  carriages  in  which  we  drove 
around  the  town  to  view  Pilgrim  Monument, 
Plymouth  Harbor,  Plymouth  Rock,  and  some 
of  the  oldest  residences,  particularly  the  War- 
ren, Otis,  and  Winslow  houses  on  North 
Street.  From  the  Rock  we  drove  up  Leyden 
Street,  which  is  Plymouth's  oldest  street,  and 
out  to  Billings  Pond,  thought  when  discovered 
to  be  another  ocean.  Then  we  returned  to  the 
village  and  went  through  the  first  church  and 
Burial  Hill  Cemetery.     Here  are  buried  Gov- 


ernor Bradford  and  others  who  made  the 
perilous  trip  in  the  Mayflower. 

As  lunch  hour  was  at  hand,  we  went  by 
trolley  to  Warren's  Cove  where  we  found  the 
sandy  beach  a  good  picnic  ground.  Some  said 
the  water  was  fine. 

A  visit  to  Pilgrim  Hall,  where  many  things 
of  personal  and  historic  interest  are  on  ex- 
hibition, completed  this  altogether  happy  and 
profitable  trip. 


Thursday,  May  20,  the  Juniors  were  sur- 
prised to  find  from  the  list  by  the  post-office 
window  that  they  were  to  call  for  boxes  of 
flowers.  These  proved  to  be  bunches  of  love- 
ly purple  and  white  pansies.  With  them  each 
Junior  found  a  note  from  the  Senior  who  had 
chosen  her  to  be  torchbearer  on  Class  Night. 
Although  the  selections  were  not  wholly  unex- 
pected, there  was  a  good  deal  of  happiness  and 
excitement  all  through  the  dinner  hour  and 
evening. 

One  of  the  most  pleasing  events  of  the  year 
was  the  recital  given  Wednesday  evening, 
May  21,  by  Helen  Webster,  assisted  by  Olive 
Chase  and  Alice  Phillips.  The  following  diffi- 
cult program  was   successfully  given : 

By  the  Waters  of   Minnetonka   Licurance 

The    Swallows    Cowen 

The  Star    Rogers 

June     Mrs.    Beach 

Miss  Webster 

Valse    Arenshy 

Misses  Chase  and  Phillips 

Aria,   "Le  parlate   a" amour,   o   cari   fior". .  . .  Gounod 

Miss  Webster 

The   Lark    Balakirew 

Miss  Chase 
Four  Indian  Love  Lyrics ..  A  my   Woodforde  Finden 

The  Temple  Bells 

Less  than  the  Dust 

Kashmiri  Song 

Till   I  Wake 

He  Truly  Loved  Me  So   Tchaikovsky 

The  Nightingale  has  a  Lyre  of  Gold    . . .  .Whclpley 
Miss  Webster 

Vespers  on  Sunday,  May  25,  was  held  im- 
mediately after  dinner.  Mr.  Beaman,  brother 
of  one  of  our  girls,  who  recently  has  returned 
from  overseas,  told  us  of  his  experiences 
while  with  the  26th  Division.  He  had  been  in 
active  service  at  the  front  practically  all  the 
time,  having  fought  in  several  of  the  greatest 


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battles.  Mr.  Beaman  gave  us  some  idea  of 
the  trench  life  and  of  the  dangers,  and  the 
hardships  of  the  war.  As  an  illustration  of 
these,  he  told  us  that  once,  while  out  on  an 
attack,  his  company  had  been  cut  off.  As  a 
result  they  were  forced  to  go  without  food 
for  five  days,  many  dying  of  hunger  and  ex- 
haustion. In  concluding  his  talk,  Mr.  Bea- 
man read  a  poem  by  a  soldier  of  German  par- 
entage who  was  fighting  with  the  American 
Army  giving  a  realistic  account  of  the  activi- 
ties of  the  26th  Division  from  the  first. 

Wednesday  evening,  May  28,  the  Red  Cross 
gave  an  entertainment  and  dance  in  order  to 
raise  the  money  pledged  by  the  Lasell  branch. 
The  entertainment,  in  charge  of  the  Dramatic 
Club,  consisted  of  readings  by  Dorothy  Burn- 
ham  and  Katherine  Mulholland,  and  songs  by 
Helen  Webster  and  Alice  Phillips.  During 
the  dance  ice  cream  cones  were  sold.  From 
this  sale  and  from  the  admission  fees  the 
chapter  cleared  $39. 

Thursday  night,  May  29,  was  reserved  for 
the  concert  given  by  Mr.  Albert  E.  Brown, 
leader  of  the  community  chorus  in  Lowell  and 
widely  known  as  a  teacher  and  singer.  For 
this  very  pleasant  evening  we  all  have  to 
thank  both  Mr.  Brown  and  Mrs.  Brown,  who 
played  the  accompaniments  with  skill  and  ap- 
preciation.    The  interesting  program  follows  : 

"Honor  and  Arms" 

George  Frederic  Handel    (1685-1759) 
Aria  from    the   Oratorio   "Samson" 
"Come  Raggio  Di  Sol"  Antonio  Caldara  (1670-1736) 
"Caro  Mio  Ben"   ..  .Giuseppe  Giordiani   (1743-1798) 

"Elegie"    Jules  Massanet    (1842) 

"L'Heure  Exquise"    Reynaldo  Halm   (1874) 

Traditional  Songs 

"The  Swallow's  Song"    Netherlands 

"The  Pretty  Creature"   Old  English 

"Nobody  Knows  the  Trouble  I  See" 

American   Negro 
Modern  Songs 

"Ho  Jolly  Jenkin"    Sir  Arthur  Sullivan 

From    the    Opera-    "Ivanhoe" 

"These   Evening   Bells"    Euginio   Pirani 

Poem  by   Thomas  Moore 

"Sheriff's   Song"    Reginald   DeKoven 

From   the  Opera  "Robin  Hood" 
Three  Kipling  Songs 

"Mother  o'  Mine"   Frank  E.   Tours 

"Route  Marchin'  "   George  Chadwick  Stock 

"Danny    Deever"    Walter    Damrosch 

On  Saturday,   May  24,  we  were  given  an 


opportunity  to  hear  an  excellent  dual  concert 
given  by  the  Harvard- Yale  Glee  Club.  About 
fifty  of  the  girls  took  advantage  of  this.  The 
audience  was  enthusiastic  and  the  boys  were 
full  of  true  college  spirit,  so  that  the  evening 
is  a  very  happy  one  to  remember. 

In  our  chapel  hour  on  Friday,  May  30,  Rev. 
M.  F.  Allbright  from  Allston  spoke  to  us  of 
the  meaning  of  Memorial  Day.  He  said  that, 
although  the  veterans  of  the  Civil  War  were 
no  longer  here  to  uphold  the  ideals  of  democ- 
racy, there  are  new  veterans  returning  from 
devastated  France  to  "carry  on."  He  ex- 
pressed the  hope  for  an  early  demobilization 
of  our  men,  and  a  reconciliation  with  the 
enemy. 

Tuesday  evening,  June  3,  the  last  Christian 
Endeavor  meeting  of  the  year  was  held.  This 
was  led  by  the  president  of  the  association, 
Ethel  Ramage.  Her  topic  was  "Thinking  of 
God."  She  told  us  that  the  world  is  God's 
schoolroom  and  that  the  purpose  of  God's 
school  is  to  make  men  and  women  in  the 
image  of  Christ.  She  also  expressed  her  ap- 
preciation of  the  way  in  which  the  girls  had 
attended  the  Christian  Endeavor  meetings 
during  the  year. 


MAY  DAY 


The  exercises  on  May  Day  were  very  pretty 
and  effective.  The  procession  was  led  by  the 
group  of  girls  who  were  to  take  part  in  the 
dances,  all  in  their  appropriate  costumes.  Fol- 
lowing these  came  the  Seniors  in  their  caps 
and  gowns,  led  by  the  two  little  Sprague  twins 
of  Woodland  Park,  who  were  to  be  the  May 
Queen's  attendants  and  who  carried  her  gown 
and  crown.  Just  behind  the  Seniors  came 
the  undergraduates  who  were  all  in  white,  ex- 
cept that  the  two  leading  officers  of  each  class 
wore  picture  hats  made  of  their  class  colors. 

The  May  Queen  and  Maid  of  Honor  had 
both  been  chosen  some  days  before  by  prefer- 
ential ballot.  None,  however,  knew  the  out- 
come, until  Priscilla  Alden,  the  Senior  presi- 
dent, took  Ethel  Ramage  out  of  line  and  es- 


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SALUTING   THE    MAY   QUEEN 


corted  her  to  the  throne.  The  secretary  of  the 
class,  Mercie  Nichols,  then  stopped  beside 
Katherine  Rice,  who  proved  to  be  the  Maid  of 
Honor.  The  May  Queen  was  then  crowned 
by  Miss  Alden  and  presented  with  the  ^flowers 
which  the  little  attendants  brought  forward. 
The  Maid  of  Honor  took  her  place  at  the 
right  of  the  throne  and  the  attendants  sat  at 
the  feet  of  the  Queen. 

Forming  a  double  row  about  the  throne,  the 
Seniors  knelt  first,  and  sang  to  the  May 
Queen.  The  Juniors  followed  with  their  song, 
and  then  came  the  other  classes  who  had 
united  to  sing  their  song  of  homage. 

The  winding  of  the  May-pole  in  rainbow 
colors  was  especially  lovely.  This  was  done 
by  sixteen  of  the  Seniors  who  were  dressed 
in  white  with  bright  colored  sweaters,  the 
sweater  of  each  girl  matching  her  May-pole 
ribbon.  The  first  of  the  special  dances  was 
an  English  one  called  "Gathering  Peasesods." 
The  girls  in  this  dance  were  attired  in  the 
real  English  costumes. 

After  this  came  the  Spanish  Dances.  The 
"Tarantella"  was  danced  by  Josephine  Flor- 
ence and  Helen  Files  with  a  great  deal  of  fin- 
ish and  expression.     Then  came  the  beautiful 


dance  "Espanita"  by  Helene  Sweney  and  a 
group  of  eight  girls. 

The  Spanish  Dances  were  closely  followed 
by  two  French  Dances,  "Musette,  danse  Vil- 
lageoise,"  and  "Bouree.  danse  Montaguarde," 
which  were  exceedingly  pretty  and  graceful. 

The  last  number  on  the  program  was  a  lit- 
tle play  told  in  songs  and  dancing  by  the 
French  students.  It  was  called  "Dans  la  tour 
la  Palais."  With  this  pretty  scene  in  which 
the  Lady  of  the  Tower  finally  released  the 
little  white  dove  from  its  cage  and  let  it  fly 
to  liberty,  May  Day  closed  triumphantly. 

The  Glee  Club  gave  its  annual  concert  on 
Saturday  evening  June  7th.  Such  a  large 
number  of  guests  were  invited  that,  in  order 
to  seat  them  all  at  dinner,  it  was  necessary  to 
serve  it  at  five-thirty  and  six-thirty.  After 
dinner  the  guests  strolled  about  the  grounds 
until  eight  o'clock  when  they  adjourned  to 
the  gymnasium,  which  was  prettily  decorated 
with  foliage  and  flowers.  Bleachers  were 
built  in  the  rear  of  the  gymnasium,  in  order  to 
afford  more  seating  space.  The  concert  be- 
gan promptly  and  consisted  of  a  four  part 
program  by  the  Glee  Club,  the  Mandolin  Club 
adding  another  part.     Both   Clubs   were   led 


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READY   FOR   THE    RACES 


by  Katherine  Rice  '20.  The  accompaniments 
were  well  played  by  Olive  Chase  and  by  Alice 
Phillips.  After  each  part  several  clever  en- 
cores were  given.  Some  of  these  were  writ- 
ten by  the  club  members.  Our  congratulations 
to  the  girls  and  to  Miss  Goodrich  who,  as  al- 
ways, gave  generously  of  her  time  and  her 
ideas.     The  program  follows  : 


H.  Smart 

J.  L.  Molloy 

Old  Irish  Melody 

E.   Nevin 


PART   ONE 

1.  Down  in  the  Dewy  Dell 

2.  Kerry  Dance 

3.  Bendemeer's  Stream 
'4.  One   Spring  Morning 

Glee  Club 

PART   TWO 

1.  In  Picardie  H.  B.  Hatch 

2.  Her  Rose  C.  W.  Combs 

3.  I  Once  Had  a  Sweet  Little  Doll,  Dears    E.  Nevin 
Misses   Rankin,    Rice,    Fogg,   Phillips,   Freeman, 

Balcom 


PART  THREE 

Serenade  in  Summer 
Neapolitan  Airs 

1.  Tarantella 

2.  Nymph's   Song 
Estudiantina 

Glee  Club 

PART  FOUR 

Chanson  Saus  Paroles  P.  Tschaikowsky 

Mandolin    Club 


L.  Denga 
Italian  Folk  Songs 


P.   Lacome 


PART  FIVE 

Three  Indian  Songs  C.  W.  Cadman 

1.  From  the  Land  of  the  Sky  Blue  Water 

2.  The  White   Dawn   is   Stealing 

3.  The  Moon  Drops   Low 

Glee  Club 


RIVER  DAY 


Although  the  weather  looked  very  unfavor- 
able on  Monday  morning,  the  9th,  it  turned 
out  to  be  as  fine  a  day  for  the  races  as  could 
be  desired — cool,  but  with  a  slight  wind.  On 
the  point  were  gathered  all  the  visitors  and 
under-classmen  except  the  Junior  Class,  who 
went  in  a  body  to  the  opposite  bank  of  the 
river  to  cheer  for  their  two  crews. 

The  four  crews  were  towed  down  to  the 
course  by  the  launch  filled  with  Seniors  and 
by  a  second  launch  containing  the  Faculty  and 
the  Woodland  Park  students.  After  their 
pictures  were  taken,  the  Senior  and  the  sec- 
ond Junior  Crews  were  towed  down  to  the 
island  where  the  course  begins.  The  Seniors 
won  the  race  by  one  foot — time  3  minutes, 
22  seconds.  Then  amidst  cheers  from  both 
sides  of  the  river,  the  launch  started  off  again 
with  the  first  Junior  and  Mixed  Crews.    Both 


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crews  came  down  in  fine  form,  but  the  Ju- 
niors not  only  won  the  race,  but  also  broke 
the  record  for  the  course  with  a  time  of  3 
minutes,  14J4  seconds.  The  next  race  was 
run  by  the  losers.  In  this  the  Second  Junior 
Crew  came  in  ahead,  earning  third  place. 

Wild  cheers  from  both  the  Seniors  and  the 
crowd  of  Juniors  announced  that  it  was  time 
for  the  real  excitement  to  begin.  Then  the 
two  canoes  flashed  into  sight  around  the  curve, 
paddles  flying  in  perfect  time,  but  with  the 
Junior  Crew  in  the  lead.  The  Juniors  crossed 
the  goal  over  a  boat  length  ahead  of  their  op- 
ponents and  smashed  the  record  they  had  set 
a  few  minutes  before,  with  a  new  time  of  3 
minutes,    \2}A   seconds. 

The  lineup  of  the  crews  is  as  follows : 

SENIOR  CREW 
Edith  Vance,  Q-ptain 

1.  Priscilla  Alden,  Stroke 

2.  Marion  Owen 

3.  Marguerite  Houser 

4.  Ethel  Ramage 

5.  Virginia  Quarles 

6.  Frances   O'Brien 

7.  Mercie   Nichols 

8.  Olive  Chase 

JUNIOR  FIRST  CREW 
Katherine  Rice,   Capt. 

1.  Gladys    Keniston.    Stroke 

2.  Doris  Rogers 

3.  Mildred  Patten 

4.  Muriel  James 

5.  May  Fogg 

6.  Freda  Griffin 

7.  Carolie   Abrams 

8.  Eleanor  Thompson 

JUNIOR  SECOND  CREW 
Dorothy  Sprague,  Capt. 

1.  Doris  Whitney,  Stroke 

2.  Sue  Davidson 

3.  Martha  McLaughlin 

4.  Genevieve  Shidler 

5.  Katherine  Forgie 

6.  Anna  Crane 

7.  Bernice  Lyons 

8.  Alice  Grimes 

MIXED 
Muriel  Sanger,  "Capt. 

1.  Doris   Brown,    Stroke 

2.  Katherine  Ladd 

3.  Miriam  White 

4.  Rosamond  Kent 

5.  Lilian  Doane 

6.  Jessie  Melanson 

7.  Phyllis  Rowe 

8.  Mildred  Freeman 


COMMENCEMENT  CONCERT 


The  fact  that  the  girls  could  carry  out  the 
following  difficult  program  at  the  annual  con- 
cert June  11,  shows  that  they  have  worked 
hard  and  have  taken  advantage  of  the  excel- 
lent training  given  in  our  music  department. 

PART  FIRST 
Organ.     Prelude  and  Fugue  in  E  minor  Bach 

Alice    Phillips 

Voice.     Allah  Chadwick 

To   You  Speaks 

Doris   Brown 

Pianoforte.     Au  Ruisseau,  Op.  55,  No.  8  Schutt 

Kathryn    Ladd 
Violin.     Chant  sans  Paroles 

Helen    Brooks 
Voice.     Sylvian 

Flower  Rain 

Edith  Abbott 
Voice.     Dedication 

Welcome  my  Wood 

Mildred   Freeman 

Pianoforte.     Arabesque,  Op.  45,  No.   1     Leschetizky 

Janet  Hannah 

PART  SECOND 
Voice.     My  Abode  Schubert 

Helen    Balcom 
Pianoforte.     Fantasie  Impromptu,  C-sharp  minor 

Chopin 
Edith   Abbott 
Voice.     "Voi  che  Sapete"  from  Le  Nozze  di  Figaro 

Mozart 
Katherine   Rice 
Pianoforte.     Sonata   (First  Movement)  Grieg 

Olive  Chase 

Voice.     The  Star  Rogers 

June  Mrs.  Beach 

Helen   Webster 

Pianoforte.     Suite  Coppelia  Delibes-Lack 

Misses   Chase  and   Phillips 

Chickering    Pianos    Used 


Tschaikozvsky 

Sinding 
Loud 

R.  Franz 
R.  From 


HOME   ECONOMICS   EXHIBIT 


The  Home  Economics  Exhibit  was  one  of 
the  most  attractive  ever  shown  in  the  depart- 
ment. Rainbow  colors,  bright  but  harmonious, 
characterized  the  dainty  waists,  gowns  and 
hats  so  much  admired  by  the  many  visitors 
who  went  about  the  rooms  on  the  afternoon 
of  June  12.  The  fine  needlework  of  the  hand- 
made lingerie  and  linen,  the  interesting  dis- 
play of  basketry,  the  Red  Cross  table,  as  well 
as  the  more  pretentious  suits  and  evening 
wraps,  all  called  out  words  of  genuine  praise. 

The  cooking  classes  under  the  skilful  direc- 
tion of  the  teachers  had   set  out  an  artistic 


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luncheon  in  the  dining-room  of  Carter  Hall. 
Nothing  to  please  the  eye  or  palate  was  lack- 
ing. In  the  other  rooms  one  could  get  prac- 
tical ideas  about  food  values  and  about  well- 
balanced  meals.  The  chance  to  go  down  after 
dinner  and  enjoy  some  of  the  delicacies  must 
have  been  some  reward  for  the  labor  necessary 
to  prepare  so  pleasing  an  exhibit. 


THE  ART  EXHIBIT 


As  a  result  of  their  work  with  Miss  Mulli- 
ken,  the  art  students  were  able  to  show  pic- 
tures in  oils  and  water-colors,  cast  drawings, 
china  painting,  enamel  painting  on  wood,  and 
interesting  designs  for  cretonne  and  book  cov- 
ers. They  are  indeed  fortunate  in  being  able 
to  choose  from  so  wide  a  range  of  work.  The 
studio  had  been  made  attractive,  also,  by 
flowers  and  foliage.  Perhaps  the  most  impres- 
sive thing,  however,  was  the  display  of  re- 
markable posters  made  by  artists  in  France, 
Italy,  and  Belgium. 


SENIOR  RECEPTION 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  entertained  the  Se- 
niors, their  parents,  and  friends  in  the  par- 
lors Saturday  evening,  June  14.  Miss  Potter 
and  Priscilla  Alden,  Senior  president,  were 
with  them  in  the  receiving  line.  Music  was 
furnished  by  an  orchestra  and  refreshments 
were  served  in  the  dining  room.  The  evening 
was  especially  enjoyable  because  of  the  many 
former  students,  the  parents,  and  the  friends 
of  the  graduating  class  who  were  present. 


COMMENCEMENT  VESPERS 


Commencement  Vespers  were  held  in  the 
gymnasium  Sunday  evening,  June  IS.  There 
were  many  guests  present  as  the  Seniors 
marched  in,  preceded  by  the  Glee  Club.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Stocking,  who  preached  the  baccalau- 
reate sermon  in  the  morning,  offered  prayer, 
and  the  Rev.  Arthur  W.  Moulton  from  Law- 
rence gave  the  address.     Dr.  Moulton  used  as 


his  topic  the  motto  of  the  graduating  class, 
"Carry  On."  He  spoke  of  the  necessity  of 
keeping  abreast  of  the  new  ideas,  and  the 
changes  in  the  Christian  world.  From  his 
own  experience  he  gave  many  stories  of  the 
faith  of  the  soldiers  as  they  were  brought  in 
from  the  field  of  battle  or  suffered  in  the  hos- 
pitals. He  made  an  especial  point  of  the 
need  that  the  girls  going  out  from  the  many 
schools  live  up  to  these  boys,  who  are  coming 
home  so  changed  by  the  great  war. 


COMMENCEMENT  SUNDAY 


The  Class  of  1919  and  all  who  attended  the 
service  on  Baccalaureate  Sunday  were  fortu- 
nate in  hearing  so  able  and  so  progressive  a 
speaker  as  the  Rev.  J.  T.  Stocking,  D.D.,  of 
Montclair,  New  Jersey.  Prayer  was  offered 
by  Dr.  Butters.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Drew  of  the 
Auburndale  Congregational  Church  then  in- 
troduced Dr.  Stocking,  welcoming  him  to  the 
locality  where  he  had  worked  so  faithfully  in 
previous  years. 

The  Doom  of  the  Timid  was  Dr.  Stocking's 
theme,  his  text  being,  "There  was  a  man  of 
the  Pharisees  named  Nicodemus." 

"Nicodemus  was  a  Greek  name.  The  fact 
that  a  Jew  bore  a  Greek  name  may  be  made 
to  suggest  a  certain,  inconsistency  about  the 
man.  We  discover  the  weakness  in  studying 
the  three  narrations  concerning  him.  He  ap- 
pears in  three  scenes.  In  scene  one  Nicodemus 
visits  Jesus  by  night  and  makes  an  avowal  of 
faith.  In  scene  two,  he  is  too  timid  to  make 
the  avowal  openly.  In  scene  three,  Jesus  is 
dead  and  Nicodemus  brings  ointment  for  the 
burial.  He  has' lost  his  chance  to  serve  Jesus. 
We  never  hear  of  him  again.  Out  of  the  night 
he  came  and  into  the  night  he  goes — and  with 
the  night  go  all  timid  souls. 

"The  world  is  full  of  timid  folk  who  are 
chiefly  responsible  for  the  slow  movement  of 
the  world  toward  nobler  standards  of  life. 
There  is  less  to  fear  in  efforts  at  reform  from 
the  bold  bad  than  from  the  timid  good.  For 
the  Devil  to  have  his  way,  it  is  only  neces- 


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sary   for  good  people  to  do  nothing.     Timid 
people  are  the  discards  of  the  pack. 

"It  is  a  bit  disquieting  to  see  that  many  of 
these  timid  people  come  from  the  ranks  of 
the  educated.  Too  many  cultured  people  look 
upon  genuine  moral  enthusiasm  as  bourgeois. 

"We  are  challenged  to  heroism  by  the  many 
big  problems  that  the  world  faces.  There 
are  questions  concerning  private  property, 
the  nation's  policies,  the  rights  of  the  negro, 
and  religious  questions.  The  person  who 
stands  for  a  better  social  and  political  order 
must  be  unafraid  of  loss  or  epithet.  The  per- 
son who  takes  a  stand  for  fine  traditions  that 
are  endangered  must  also  be  courageous. 

"The  challenge  of  the  youth  who  have  suf- 
fered in  the  war  is  a  challenge  to  youth  to  be 
heroic.    Its  message  is,  'Scorn  to  be  safe.'  " 

In  his  address  to  the  graduating  class  Dr. 
Stocking  reminded  them  that  they  had  seen 
the  vision  and  that  the  coming  days  would 
test  their  fidelity. 

"This  is  a  great  day  in  which  to  live.  There 
has  not  been  such  a  time  since  the  formative 
days  of  the  Republic  for  a  young  person  to 
make  all  that  is  in  him  count.  Wordsworth, 
looking  back  at  the  days  of  his  youth  when 
the  French  Revolution  was  in  progress,  writes 
in  his   'Prelude,' 

"  'Bliss  was  it  in  that  dawn  tcr  be  alive 
But  to  be  young  was  very  heaven.' 

"Yes,  heaven  for  the  brave,  but  perdition 
for  the  coward.  You  may  not  feel  that  you 
do  much  to  help  the  world,  but  if  you  do  your 
duty,  are  faithful  to  your  light,  your  life  will 
be  immortal  and  you  will  be  saved  from  the 
doom  of  the  timid." 


CLASS  NIGHT 


The  Class  Night  of  '19  occurred  on  June 
16th,  the  evening  being  as  beautiful  as  anyone 
could  have  wished.  Carrying  the  daisy  chain 
on  their  shoulders,  the  Seniors  marched  in 
while  the  Juniors  stood  on  either  side  of 
them.  As  they  marched  the  Seniors  sang  their 
processional  with  the  refrain,  "Carry  On." 


After  the  class  was  seated,  Priscilla  Alden. 
the  president,  rose  and  gave  the  following  wel- 
come : 

WELCOME    1919 

It  is  my  pleasure  this  evening  to  extend  in 
behalf  of  the  Senior  Class,  to  each  and  all  of 
our  guests  present,  a  most  hearty  welcome. 
The  girls  of  1919  are  gathered  here,  to  renew 
for  the  last  time,  as  students  of  Lasell,  their 
many  happy  days  at  the  old  school  home.  To- 
night you  shall  hear  about  our  past,  our  pres- 
ent and  our  future,  and  you  will  find,  we  hope, 
the  entire  evening  one  of  diverting  and  pleas- 
urable entertainment.  Joy  is  to  be  the  pre- 
dominating note,  'yet,  in  spite  of  this  we,  as 
Seniors,  cannot  help  hearing  in  the  general 
harmony,  the  minor  strain  of  sadness  insep- 
arable from  the  occasion.  This,  however,  shall 
not  dim  its  radiance  for  us  nor  in  any  de- 
gree abate  the  delight  we  feel  in  your  pres- 
ence. 

To  you,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  we  loyally 
extend  our  first  greeting.  Kind,  considerate, 
and  thoughtful  for  our  best  interests,  you 
have  made  it  possible  for  us  to  obtain  the 
best  available  in  any  chosen  line  of  work.  Ac- 
cept our  grateful  appreciation. 

Miss  Potter,  our  ever-faithful  preceptress, 
who,  more  than  anyone  else,  is  the  true  school 
Mother  of  Lasell  girls.  She  intimately  shares 
with  us  all  our  joys  as  well  as  all  our  trials 
and  tribulations.  We  give  you  the  warmest 
of  welcomes,  Miss  Potter,  and  we  all  agree 
that  Class  Night  would  not  be  a  success  with- 
out you. 

Our  Faculty,  who  have,  each  according  to 
his  or  her  individual  power  and  specialty, 
awakened,  ennobled,  and  directed  the  best  that 
is  in  us,  have  inspired  us  with  high  ideals  and, 
above  all,  have  taught  us  how  to  find  in  the 
duty  at  hand  that  which  was  best  for  our  de- 
velopment and  unfoldment,  both  physically 
and  mentally. 

Dear  Parents  and  Friends,  to  you  we  owe 
gratitude  in  the  larger  sense  of  the  word.  It 
is   by   your   love,    sacrifice,   especial    guidance 


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and  provision  that  we  have  been  able  to  have 
these  wonderful  advantages  of  Lasell  and 
all  that  Lasell  stands  for  in  education,  culture, 
and  character  making.  During  all  our  school 
days  your  loving  praise  and  advice  has  kept 
us  marching  steadily  along  the  right  path  to 
our  graduation.  May  we  ever  prove  worthy 
of  all  you  have  done  for  us.  We  are  proud 
to  have  you  here,  our  honored  guests  tonight. 

Ever-faithful  schoolmates,  to  you  we  ex- 
tend our  welcome.  In  the  coming  years  we 
shall  miss  you  sadly,  our  daily  companions, 
our  hearty  friends.  During  our  last  year  here, 
you  have  done  much  to  make  its  days  the 
happiest  of   our  lives. 

Now,  as  is  our  rule  at  Lasell,  we  shall  en- 
deavor to  be  at  our  best  and  to  give  of  our 
best  to  you,  and  to  the  best  of  our  ability  to 
"carry  on." 

Once  more  1919  bids  you  one  and  all  the 
heartiest  of  welcomes. 

At  the  close  of  her  speech  the  whole  class 
welcomed  the  audience  in  song.  The  Roll  Call, 
which  Mercie  Nichols,  the  class  secretary, 
gave,  proved  intensely  witty  and  interesting. 
Everyone  knew  that  something  good  was 
surely  coming  when  Mercie  started  with  "Be 
awake — " 

ROLL  CALL 

Prepare  to  stand !     Put  your  best  foot  for- 
ward ! !      Be    awake — In   mind,    in    soul,    and 
"body ! ! 

Priscilla  Alden,  North  Weymouth,  Mass. 
Our  beloved  and  honored  President,  named 
for  the  Priscilla  of  old,  and  the  best  Senior 
Class  President  Lasell  has  known  in  years, 
not  for  her  the  necessity  of  asking.  "Why 
don't  you  speak  for  yourself,  John?"  He  did, 
we  are  informed. 

Edith  Mavis  Abbott,  Elmwood,  Conn. 
Princess  of   Piano   Playing,   she.     But   could 
she  play  so  well  without  Gladys  Lucas  for  an 
audience  ?     Everyone  knows  how  great  is  the 
stimulus  of  appreciation. 

Isabelle  Lovett  Adams,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
Our  domestic  member.    Her  skill  as  a  modiste 


and  in  the  creation  of  hats  is  a  marvel.  One 
trial  and  you  are  convinced. 

Eleanor  Hastings  Beaman,  Plymouth,  Mass. 

Helen  Ward  Moss,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. 
Gigglers  by  excessive  giggling  may  easily  cre- 
ate a  breeze.     So  that  airmen  in  their  vicinity 
may  fly  at  any  time  they  please. 

Miriam  De  Frain  Bell,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa. 

Rosenda  Cabrera,  Mexico  City,  Mexico. 

Esther  Ruth  Shekerjian,  Torrington,  Conn. 
Grandmother  Bell's  two  little  charges  have 
behaved  passively  well  this  year,  though 
grandma  has  been  put  to  her  wits'  end  by 
Ruth's  pestering  and  ceaseless  questions,  and 
Rosenda's  hatred  for  overshoes. 

Olive  Louise  Chase,  Laconia,  N.  H. 
Olive  is  noted  for  her  artistic  hair  dressing, 
her  distinguished  stylishness,  and  her  musical 
accomplishments.  So  great  a  fascination  for 
her  has  her  piano  that  she  lingers  long  over  it, 
oblivious  to  all  bells. 

Frances  Coombs,  Yarmouth,  Me. 
We  all  apply  to  Frances  when  our  love  af- 
fairs are  going  wrong.  Why  not  hang  out 
a  shingle,  Frances,  "Palm,  Picture,  and  Char- 
acter Readings :  and  Future  Forecasted  while 
you  wait"  ? 

Ethel  Trafton  Frost,  Central  City,  Colo- 
rado. 

One  Milton  there  was  whom  you  all  know 
about  who  wrote  "Paradise  Lost."  Another 
Milton,  Frosty,  knows  who  might  easily  write 
"Paradise  Found." 

Dorothy  Charlotte  Hall,  Swampscott,  Mass. 
Look  at  her !  Snappy,  enterprising  business 
manager  of  our  class.  When  she  turns  the 
search-light  on  our  financial  standing,  woe  be 
unto  the  debtors. 

Mary  Hopkins,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 

Sarah  Hopkins,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Twins.  And  so  much  so  alike  that  they  can't 
tell  themselves  apart.  Fact.  One  has  been 
known  to  eat  the  other's  breakfast.  Partners 
in  everything,  the  line  of  their  most  marked 
success  is  the  Postal  Service — Gertrude  Traf- 
ton's  mail  carriers. 

Dorothy  Mae  Hopper,  Cannonsburg,  Pa. 


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The  dearest  girl  at  Lasell,  says  one  who  ought 
to  know,  and  notably  fond  of  Wellesley.  How 
often.  Dot,  have  you  got  "per"  to  go  to 
Wellesley  and  how  often  have  you  really  been 
there  ? 

Marguerite    Carolyn    Houser,    Miami,    Fla. 
Miriam  Elna  Owen,  Milo,  Me. 
Attractive   girls   these,   yes,   very.      They   at- 
tracted twelve  mice  in  one  night,  I  hear — or 
could  it  have  been  their  base  of  supplies? 

Deborah  Ingraham,  Augusta,  Me. 
Debby  has  worked  hard  this  year,  and  as  Pres- 
ident of  the  Maine  Club  is  a  great  success. 
She  is,  so  to  speak,  its  Maine  dependence. 

Jeannette  Mary  MacMurray,  Provincetown, 
Mass. 

Good  old  Jean  comes  from  Cape  Cod  and, 
like  the  sands  of  her  native  shores,  drifts  in 
at  all  hours  to  call  on  her  classmates  at  Gard- 
ner. She  is  famous,  too,  for  her  onion  sand- 
wiches, and  no  one  can  deny  that  she  has 
grit. 

Frances  O'Brien,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
Wise  young  men  will  beware  of  young  man- 
haters.     They  are  all  dangerously  fascinating. 
Fran  is   famous   for  her  keen  wit,   pep,   and 
merry  disposition. 

Alice  Elvira  Phillips,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 
That  Al  has  gray  matter  aplenty  goes  without 
saying,  when  one  remembers  that  she  cleared 
with  a  bound  the  interval  from  Sophomore  to 
Senior,  and  that  she  lined  up  on  Uncle  Sam's 
side  as  a  busy  and  capable  farmerette,  all  last 
summer. 

Virginia  Quarles,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Virginia  has  been  our  envy  because  of  her 
grades,  although,  to  tell  the  truth,  she  hasn't 
really  been  able  to  get  anything  higher  than 
99.9  percent  on  any  subject.  The  missing  .1 
is  the  price  she  paid  for  worrying  over  her 
inability  to  convince  a  certain  gentleman  that 
Missouri  is  superior  to  Kansas. 

Ethel  Elizabeth  Armstrong  Ramage,  East 
St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

Our  Vice-President  all  the  year  has  re- 
cently covered  the  Senior  Class  with  glory  by 
being  May   Queen.     She   is   happy   since  the 


war  closed.  While  it  continued,  she  would 
best  have  liked  to  go  across  and  dress  the 
wounded ;  but,  since  that  could  not  be,  she  has 
contented  herself  with  practicing  well  on  us, 
seeing  to  it  that  we  were  at  class  on  time,  got 
up  on  time,  and  went  to  bed  on  time,  and  she 
had  a  good  time  doing  it. 

Phyllis  Dawson  Rowe,  AVestport,  Conn. 
Her  sudden  fondness  for  athletics,  it  was 
whispered,  was  due  mainly  to  her  desire  to 
reduce ;  but  she  is  of  a  jovial  temperament 
and  we  all  know  the  old  saying  about  the 
relation  between  laughter  and  plumpness. 

Gertrude  Staples  Trafton,  Ft.  Fairfield,  Me. 
Spud  is  lucky  in  getting  such  a  lot  of  mail. 
How  do  we  know  about  it?  Why  she  is 
always  talking  about  Bowdoin  and  its  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

Edith  Stratton  Vance,  Port  Washington, 
L.  I. 

President  of  the  Dramatic  Club,  as  Pierrot  in 
the  "Maker  of  Dreams,"  she  won  fame. 
Dreams  she  still  indulges  in.  We  hope  they 
will  find  realization. 

Marion  Birmingham  Webber,  Dorchester, 
Mass. 

Pavlowa  of  the  Senior  Class.  She  is  noted  also 
for  her  passion  for  canoeing.  What  is  it  that 
so  attracts  you  to  the  river,  Marion?  Don't 
forget  to  ask  for  "per" ! 

Helen  Estelle  Webster,  Wakefield,  Mass. 
Our  Sunny  Jim.     Never  a  day  without  sun- 
shine for  Helen.     I  really  can't  see  how  with 
her  placid  brow  she'll  ever  manage  to  attain 
wrinkles  when  she  becomes  an  old  lady ! 
Sibyl  Fae  Weymouth,  Orange,  Mass. 
Ethlyn  Elizabeth  Wilson,  Carlisle,  Mass. 
Sibyl  and  Ethlyn  studied  so  hard  and  so  noisly 
that  the  rest  of  the  class  were  driven  into  ner- 
vous collapse.    Ethlyn,  sometimes,  when  Sibyl 
has  the  dictionary  handy,  ask  her  to  look  up 
very  carefully  the  definition  of  "apples."     She 
remembers  a  certain  six. 

Frances  Adele  Wieder,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Frances    has    found   her    relatives   very    con- 
venient this  year.    It  is  pleasant,  I  am  sure,  to 
feel  oneself  so  necessary  to  one's  family. 


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I,  Mercie  Nichols,  Cohasset,  Mass., 
inclining  more  to  mercy  than  to  justice,  have 
tried  to  be  merciful  in  these  flash-lights   on 
the  class. 

The  Prophecy  was  given  by  Edith  Vance 
and  Frances  O'Brien,  fellow  travelers  who 
stopped  in  a  western  city  long  enough  to  call 
by  phone  Phyllis  Rowe,  now  living  in  that 
city.  The  conversation  of  the  three  was  sup- 
posed to  take  place  several  years  after  grad- 
uation. It  revealed  the  career  of  each  and 
every  classmate,  sometimes  in  a  rather  start- 
ling manner. 

After  the  Prophecy,  Alice  Phillips  recited 
the  Class  Poem,  written  by  her : 

CLASS  POEM 

"Carry  on !"  t'will  be  the  watchword  of  ages, 

As  it  was  for  our  boys  over  there 

And  all  else  is  as  naught  on  the  pages 

Of  the  book  of  their  memories  rare. 

In  these  two  little  words,  lives   a  record 

Of  a  courage  superb,  and  a  faith 

In  the  might  of  the  right  so  resistless 

That  it  swept  to  its  victory  thro'  death. 

What  were  life  with  their  liberties  gone? 

Stern  and  fearless,  our  boys  "carried  on." 

Think  not  of  this  spirit  as  a  new  one, 

It  began  before  language  had  grown. 

When  the  wild  men  of  the  plains  and  the  forest 

Fought  undaunted  for  what  was  their  own ; 

When  clan  with  savage  clan  encountered 

And  the  seeds  of  fierce  enmity  sowed. 

Scant  was  the  mercy  then  granted  the  foe, 

But  courage  was  born  of  the  pitiless  code. 

What  were  left  with  their  liberties  gone? 

Grim  and  ruthless  those  men  "carried  on." 

So   down  through  generations  and  nations, 

Thus  heralded  by  trumpet  and  drum, 

To  complete  us  for  higher  endeavor 

To  our  hearts  their  message  has  come. 

And  the  Class  of  '19  has  accepted 

The  glorious  challenge  it  brings. 

'Tis  the  legend  embossed  on  our  banner, 

To  the  years  yet  to  come  it  outrings  : 

What  were  life  with  our  liberties  gone? 

'Tis  our  purpose  to  still  "carry  on." 

The  appropriate  mementoes  given  by  Helen 

Webster  caused  much  mirth.    Her  speech  was 

as  follows : 

MEMENTOES 
We,  the  Senior  Class  of  Lasell  Seminary, 
Auburndale,  Massachusetts,  United  States  of 
America,  said  Seminary  being  so  situated  as 
to  give  access  to  many  pleasures  and  privi- 
leges, long  coveted  by  us,  but  denied  us,  and 
lying,  as  it  does,  but  ten  miles  from  Boston, 


Hub  of  the  Universe,  and  only  two  from  Wal- 
tham,  enticing  movie  centre,  do,  on  this  16th 
day  of  June,  in  the  one-thousand-nine-hun- 
dred-and-nineteenth  year  of  our  Lord,  we  be- 
ing of  sound  and  disposing  mind,  and  having 
duly  discharged  all  our  debts  and  obligations 
as  a  body  corporate,  hereby  publish  and  de- 
clare this  our  last  will  and  testament. 

Will  those  whose  names  are  called  please 
advance  to  the  front,  with  what  presence, 
poise,  grace  of  bearing  they  can  command,  and 
here  receive  whatsoever  effects  we  have  been 
minded  to  bestow  upon  them  as  sign  and 
proof  of  our  good-will,  and  of  our  intellectual 
alertness. 

Gladys  Burnet. 

Please  come  with  your  usual  pep,  Glad. 
You  certainly  do  like  Senior  room,  don't  you? 
Four  letters  this  morning!  What  can  the 
Seniors  bequeath  to  you  to  make  things  in  our 
retreat  more  comfortable  for  you  ? 

Since  the  light  has  so  often  failed  to  be 
sufficiently  bright  for  your  purposes,  the  class 
has  voted  you  a  candle,  trusting  that  in  the 
flood  of  its  enlightening  radiance  you  may  find 
out  a  certain  little  fact  you  should  know.  Your 
presence  has  been  very  dear ;  but  sometimes 
your  absence  would — but  words  fail  me. 

Jimmie  James. 
Frankie  Heath. 

So  hard  did  these  two  dears  work  one  day 
last  December ;  running  up  stairs  and  down  in 
imminent  danger  of  being  late  at  chapel,  too, 
in  the  endeavor — alas !  that  it  should  have 
been  in  vain — to  find  our  caps  and  gowns ! 
And  your  visit  to  Mrs.  Decker's,  too,  was  all 
in  vain,  wasn't  it?  "You  were  evidently  pre- 
destined to  be  detectives,  therefore  to  you  the 
class  bequeath  this  book,  wherein  may  be  found 
any  desired  information  on  the  subject  of 
caps  and  gowns,  their  probable  location,  best 
way  of  removing  them  therefrom,  etc.,  etc. 
Better  luck  next  time,  girls !" 

Helen  O'Brien. 

To  you,  dear  Helen,  we  bequeath  this  lad- 
der and  lantern,   that   may   aid  you   in  your 


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early  morning  wanderings  up  Gardner  hill,  in 
search  of  information  concerning  caps  and 
gowns.  Next  time,  Helen,  try  the  front  of 
Gardner  instead  of  the  back  ;  the  light  is  much 
better  there,  and  the  windows  not  nearly  so 
high. 

Seniors — since  it  is  not  expected  that  you 
come  forward,  will  you  not  please,  as  I  read 
your  names,  rise  in  your  places  ? 
Frances  Wieder. 

To  Frances  was  granted  the  rare  privilege 
of  seeing  a  belated  caller,  but  only  with  Miss 
Wright  as  chaperone.  Overwhelmed  by  this 
second  honor,  which  he  hadn't  expected,  he 
nervously  asked  to  be  allowed  to  smoke  and, 
learning  that  he  might  not,  and  also  that  his 
precious  five  minutes  had  fled  and  he  could 
tarry  no  longer,  beat  a  bewildered  retreat. 
Teach  him,  Fran,  to  choose  his  place  and  time 
of  rendezvous  more  wisely  next  time. 
Dorothy  Hall. 

Dorothy,  we  always  thought  you  sensible, 
and  knew  you  were  immensely  interested  in 
domestic  science  and  your  unshakable  deter- 
mination to  become  a  "cook"  has  convinced  us 
that  you  have  a  bright  and  promising  future 
in  store.  Good  luck  ! 
Jeanette  MacMurray. 

The  unquiet  spirit  of  the  class,  always  wan- 
dering, wandering,  especially  in'  study  hour, 
and  never,  or  rarely,  with  any  discoverable 
aim,  unless,  indeed,  to  find  herself  an  olive — 
she  dotes  on  them.  And  shall  we  ever  forget 
the  eternally  recurring  question,  "Where's 
Jeanette?"  whenever  anything  especially  sus- 
picious cropped  up.  Your  woes  are  at  an 
end  now,  Jeanette. 
Mercie  Nichols. 

We  hear,  Mercie,  that  you  have  changed 
your  plan  for  the  future  and,  instead  of  study- 
ing art,  you  mean  to  go  into  the  flavoring  busi- 
ness. Hereafter,  with  you  as  a  member  of  the 
Burnett's  vanilla  company,  we  shall  all  decline 
to  use  any  other  brand. 
Elinor  Beaman. 
Helen  Moss. 

What's  this?    Helen  Moss  and  Elinor  Bea- 


man together  !  Something's  surely  wrong ! 
In  the  future,  girls,  if  you  will  make  Siamese 
twins  of  yourselves,  don't  sit  up  until  twelve 
o'clock  at  night  telling  each  other  ghost  sto- 
ries. And,  Elinor,  when  you  feel  one  of 
your  screaming  fits  coming  on,  run  to  your 
room  quick ;  don't  stay  out  in  the  hall,  and 
alarm  the  township. 
Phyllis  Rowe. 

Here  is  our  dear  Phyllis,  and  how  well  we 
know  your  traits,  Phil.  Do  you  remember 
the  night  you  left  your  bag  outside,  Phil  ?  Do 
you  remember  how  "foggy"  it  was  that  night, 
and  how  the  "fogg"  followed  you  upstairs 
and  into  your  room?  We'll  say  you  do,  all 
right.  Cheer  up,  Phil,  we  won't  tell — and,  by 
the  way — how's  Jimmy,  Phil  ? 
Alice  Phillips. 

Our  will-o'-the-wisp,  and  hard  to  locate. 
Someone  says,  "Where  is  Al?"  "Just  a  min- 
ute," comes  the  reply,  "I'll  call  Berkeley !  She 
isn't  there?  Oh,  probably  she  is  in  Jimmy 
James's  room.  Not  there  either?  Well,  try 
Sis  Greene's."  A  wild  search  fails  to  reveal 
the  missing  maid.  All  conjecture  proves  at 
fault.  Finally,  Al,  you  appeared,  hand  in  hand 
with  a  certain  little  blond.  Where  had  you 
been?  Where  have  you  usually  hidden  your- 
selves away?  /  know,  Al.  Do  you  get  that? 
/  know.  Oh,  no,  I'm  not  going  to  tell.  In- 
stead, we  wish  you  many  reunions.  How  else 
can  you  exist,  Al  ? 
Frances  Coombs. 

I  now  introduce  Frances,  our  movie  fiend. 
Inasmuch  as  movies  in  Waltham  are  not  per- 
missible. Frances  thinks  they  should  be  and 
she  is  thinking  very  seriously  about  putting  in 
a  petition  for  the  same.  Did  you  ever  notice 
what  beautiful  hair  your  famous  movie  star, 
Vivian  Martin,  has  ?  Now  we  know  why  you 
use  such  a  superfluous  amount  of  hair  tonic. 
Ethclyn  Wilson. 

Ethelyn,  we  notice  of  late  that  you  have 
taken  a  special  likeness  for  agricultural  scen- 
ery. 

No?  Surely  you  haven't  forgotten  that  fa- 
mous   afternoon    when    you    sat    down    neat" 


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Berkeley  on  a  wood-stump  with — ah,  well,  you 
know — we  all  know.  Was  she  telling  you  the 
old,  old  story,  or  was  it  poetry  ?  My  !  but  you 
two  looked  happy. 

To  you,  Juniors,  we  lovingly  and  hopefully 
dedicate  certain  little  scraps  of  knowledge  we 
have  gleaned  from  time  to  time  in  our  Senior 
year,  from  both  observation  and  experience, 
chiefly  the  former.  May  they  smooth  your 
Senior  pathway. 

Rule  1.    When  due  at  a  reception  you  should 
first  find  out  whether  refreshments  are  to  be 
served  before  you  decide  to  have  an  attack 
of  headache.     If  they  are,  we  urge  you  to 
go ;  if  not,  we  leave  you  to  make  your  own 
decision. 
Rule  2.    On  such  occasions,  after  descending 
arm  in  arm  to  the  dining  room,  make  a  quick 
dash  for  a  seat,  or  someone  may  get  there 
before  you.     You,  of  course,  must  get  one. 
Rule  3.    If  a  less  nimble-heeled  classmate  fails 
to  secure  one,  be  sure  to  giggle  at  her  em- 
barrassment.   It  shows  such  a  keen  sense  of 
humor  in  you. 
Rule  4.    In  the  morning,  if  by  any  chance  the 
clock  is  slow  or  you  oversleep,  a  word  to 
Miss  Potter  in  passing  will  bring  you  an  ex- 
cuse for  your  ten-minute  tardiness. 
Rule    5.    One   thing   more.      In   your    Senior 
year,  do  have  an  eye  to  the  congestion  in 
the  hall  about  the  P.  O.  after  dinner.    Wher- 
ever you  stand, — against  the  wall,  directly 
in   front  of  the  boxes,   or  grouped  in  the 
middle  of  the  passageway, — be  sure  to  hold 
your  ground.  .   Firmness  and  independence 
are  good  Seniorly  qualities. 
Finally,   in   memory   of   a   certain   pleasant 
serenade  you  recently  gave  us  at  breakfast — 
after  our  banquet — we  will  return  the  favor 
now,  just  saying,  by  way  of  preface,  that  you 
have  our  confidence  and  high  esteem. 

The  clever  songs  which  were  first  sung  to 
the  Juniors  might  be  considered  as  a  slight 
slam,  but  they  were  followed  by  one  of  real 
friendliness  and  affection. 

After  the  Junior  songs  the  Seniors  sang  to 
their  sister  class,  the   Sophomores,  and  pre- 


sented each  with  a  gift.  Then  Ethel  Ramage, 
vice-president,  gave  the  presentation  speech 
in  regard  to  the  set  of  Shakespere,  which  is 
the  gift  of  the  class  to  the  school. 

By  request  the  Seniors  sang  their  Cap  and 
Gown  Song.  For  this  all  the  lights  were 
turned  out  and  the  effect  was  much  the  same 
as  on  that  early  morn  in  the  fall  when  it  was 
first  sung.  _  At  length  nineteen's  farewell  was 
very  beautifully  said  by  Olive  Chase  in  these 
words : 

FAREWELL  ADDRESS 

Now  must  be  spoken  the  sad  but  enviable 
word — Farewell,  for  class  night  brings  a  defi- 
nite close  to  one  period  of  our  lives — our 
school  days !  All  through  our  years  of  study 
we  have  planned  and  wrought  in  anticipation 
of  this,  our  crowning  night,  when  we,  the 
Class  of  1919,  should  stand  as  a  body  before 
you  at  the  end  of  our  school  career,  our  plans 
fulfilled,  our  work  completed,  our  anticipa- 
tions realized.  And  now  that  it  is  indeed  here 
no  words  of  ours  can  express  its  deep  signifi- 
cance to  us.  The  past  has  given  us  effort — 
even  struggle — successful  work,  friendships 
unspeakably  dear,  awakening  and  quickening 
of  spirit.  The  future  shall  prove  the  value  of 
these.  ' 

To  you,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  in  whose 
friendly  guidance  and  hearty  goodwill  has  lain 
much  of  our  success,  and  to  you,  Miss  Potter, 
whose  wise  and  affectionate  care  has  safely 
guided  this  grateful  class  through  its  course, 
we  bid  regretful  goodbye  as  students.  Mem- 
bers of  our  faculty,  as  we  say  farewell  to  you 
we  would  express  sincerest  appreciation  for 
your  unfailing  and  sympathetic  cooperation 
throughout  our  course,  for  the  high  standards 
and  pure  ideals  which  it  has  been  your  aim 
to  set  before  us,  and  for  the  heartening  en- 
couragement and  understanding  which  has 
been  our  inspiration. 

Sophomores,  staunch  and  loyal  little  sister 
class,  you  have  done  much  to  make  our  year 
pleasant  and  successful.  Our  farewell  wish 
to  you  is  for  success  always  in  the  remainder 
of  your  school  year  and  on  through  life. 


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Junior  girls  and  schoolmates  everyone — 
dear  girls  of  Lasell,  who  have  made  this  year 
so  memorable  in  your  splendid  spirit  and  un- 
wavering loyalty,  we  of  '19  find  it  hard  to 
leave  you.  May  you  stand  always  as  firm  and 
loyal  to  yourselves  and  to  your  school  as  you 
have  been  to  us — farewell. 

Girls  of  1919, — classmates — friends, — shall 
we  ever  realize,  ever  fully  appreciate  all  that 
our  life  together  here  has  meant — shall  yet 
come  to  mean — these  years  of  intimate  com- 
radeship, of  close  understanding  of  one  an- 
other, of  friendships  true  and  tested.  These 
bonds  that  bind  us  together  in  unchanging  af- 
fection ?  Tonight  as  a  class  we  must  say  fare- 
well, but  with  the  comforting  assurance  that 
though  Fate  may  separate  us  widely  in  the 
future,  the  power  of  our  unshakable  friend- 
ships shall  hold  us  always  united  in  spirit. 
Let  this  night  mark  for  each  of  us  the  be- 
ginning of  a  bigger,  finer,  life  of  inspiration 
for  higher  things.  With  our  esteemed  hon- 
orary member,  Margaret  Slattery,  let  us  ask 
of  life  that  it  "give  us  large  places  to  fill, 
great  opportunities  to  meet,  success  that  is 
clean  and  free  from  the  stain  of  injustice  to 
another,  health,  happiness,  and  enough  of 
wealth  to  lift  life  above  the  deadly  grind  and 
to  share  with  those  who  need." 

Girls,  "over  there"  the  word  last  year  was 
"carry  on."  Noble  was  the  motto,  noble  the 
response.  We  have  chosen  that  motto  for 
ours.  As  a  farewell  token  and  a  pledge  of  a 
good  future,  I  give  you,  girls,  your  life  motto 
— "Carry  on" ! 

To  the  music  of  the  recessional  the  Seniors 
then  marched  to  the  front' of  Bragdon  Hall 
where  their  torch  bearers  awaited  them.  The 
band  struck  up  a  lively  march  as  the  girls 
got  into  line.  After  parading  about  the  front 
of  the  campus,  they  halted  in  front  of  Brag- 
don once  more.  Here  Frances  Wieder  gave 
an  appropriate  speech  of  farewell : 

FAREWELL    TO    BRAGDON    HALL 
Tonight  our  hearts  are  filled  to  overflowing 
as  we  turn  to  review  the  years  of  our  lives 
at  Lasell.     Happiest  of   all  have  been  those 


days  and  their  memories  are  never  to  be  for- 
gotten. 

With  deep  feeling  and  profound  devotion 
do  we,  the  Class  of  1919,  come  to  say  fare- 
well to  our  beloved  Bragdon  Hall.  Under 
her  roof  was  our  work  done,  under  her  pro- 
tecting care  even  our  characters  moulded,  our 
minds  broadened  and  our  spirits  enlightened. 

Here  from  her  platform  we  have  heard 
noted  and  learned  speakers,  those  who  have 
given  us  of  their  stores  of  wisdom  and  learn- 
ing, those  through  whose  influence  we  have 
been  led  to  set  for  ourselves  noble  goals  for 
life's  achievement.  Nor  has  it  been  in  our 
mental  advancement  alone  that  this  old  hall 
has  played  her  part.  Here  upon  this  green 
lawn  we  have  frolicked,  have  danced  and 
laughed  and  enjoyed  our  May  Day  revels ;  and 
here  again  on  this  night  of  nights  we  hold 
our  Class  Night  exercises  about  her  very  door. 

For  many  of  us  Bragdon  is  not  only  a  build- 
ing of  waiting  classrooms  and  warning  bells, 
for  it  is  filled  with  sweet  memories.  And  so  it 
is  that  when  in  coming  days  we  shall  think  of 
Lasell  our  thoughts  will  center  in  this  house 
through  whose  doors  we  first  entered  as  stu- 
dents, this  house  of  inspiration  and  ideals. 

As  our  voices  now  are  lifted  in  song  of 
praise,  our  hearts  turn  with  loving  devotion 
to  bid  a  fond  farewell  to  our  Bragdon  Hall. 

At  Gardner,  the  Senior  Home,  Dorothy 
Hall  said  farewell  in  the  name  of  the  Seniors. 
Then  once  more  the  procession  went  on,  halt- 
ing this  time  about  the  Flames  in  one  corner 
of  the  Bragdon  campus.  After  the  song  and 
ceremony  of  the  loving  cup,  Mary  Hopkins 
spoke  these  spirited  words : 
THE  FLAMES 

Relatives,  friends,  visitors,  and  schoolmates. 
Attention  !  Buckle  on  your  gas  masks  lest  you 
be  gassed,  and  steel  your  courage  that  you  be 
not  shocked ;  for  here  in  this  very  spot  tonight 
the  class  of  '19  is  about  to  convert  into  gas 
through  the  medium  of  the  flames  the  shrap- 
nel criticisms,  dugout  study-hall,  and  barbed- 
wire  limitations  which  have  surrounded  us  and 
tormented   us   during   our   school   life.      This 


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done,  shall  we  take  flight  from  the  doors  of 

Lasell   in   our   trusty  aeroplane,    Good  Luck, 

seeking  freedom  and  independence. 

We,  classmates,  in  these  just  past  years  of 

our  course  here  have  gained  many  things.    We 

have  gained   friendships   destined  to  be   ever 

dear  to  us  in  the  years  to  come;  a  broadened 

outlook  on  life  which  will  influence  strongly 

our  future;  and  deathless  memories  of  many 

royal  good  times  together.     These  things  we 

shall   never   forget ;  but  the  years  have   also 

brought  us  various  petty  annoyances,   which 

have  more  or  less  marred  the  harmony  of  our 

lives   here   and   which   tonight   we   shall   cast 

into   the   flames   that   we   may   utterly   forget 

them  and  take  away  with  us   only  the   rosy 

memories  of  our  myriad  joys.     So  then,  as  I 

said  before, 

Buckle  on  your  gas  masks  tight 
Swallow  no   sparks   and  smoke  tonight, 
Into  the  flames  our  woes  we  cast 
Now  they  are  forever  past. 

When  others  of  the  class  had  added  their 

words  of  approval,  all  joined  in  the  singing 

of  Alma  Mater.     Thus  closed  the  happy  and 

all  too  short  Class  Night  of  1919. 


LAST  CHAPEL 


Dr.  Winslow  presided  at  the  last  chapel  ex- 
ercise of  the  year.  He  spoke  with  apprecia- 
tion of  the  Class  of  1919  and  thanked  them 
for  the  set  of  Shakespere's  works  so  hand- 
somely bound.  Everybody  then  listened  eager- 
ly to  the  long  list  of  awards  which  follows : 

LETTERS  FOR  BASKET-BALL 
Abrams,   Carolie  B. 
Fogg,  May  Priscilla 
Hussey,    Marjorie   Vivian 
Hall,  Dorothy  C. 
Florence,   Martha  Josephine 
Patten,  Mildred  Adelaide  Hancock- 
James,  Muriel  Davidson 
Kent,   Rosamond  Kingman 
Vance,  Edith  Stratton 
Crane,  Anna  Euona 

WINNING  CREW 
Rice,    Katherine 
Rogers,  Doris  Earp 
Griffin,   Freda   Bertha 
Thompson.    Annie    Eleanor 
Keniston,   Helen  Gladys 


CHEVRONS  FOR  DUPLICATE  "L" 

Abrams,  Carolie  B. 

Fogg,  May  Priscilla 

Patten,   Mildred  Adelaide  Hancock 

James,   Muriel  Davidson 

CUPS 

Swimming,  Class  A 

O'Brien,  Frances 

Swimming,  Class  B 

Harding,  Florence  Frances 

Swimming,  Class  C 

Cabrera,  Maria  Luisa 

Tennis 

Florence,    Martha   Josephine 

CERTIFICATES 

Home  Economics 
Priscilla  Alden 
Carolie  B.  Abrams 
Isabelle  Lovitt  Adams 
Miriam  De  Frain  Bell 
Frances   O'Brien 
Gertrude  Staples   Trafton 
Edith   Stratton  Vance 
Phyllis   Dawson   Rowe 
Ether   Elizabeth  Armstrong  Ramage 
Academic    Music 
Olive  Louise   Chase,   with  honors 
Fourth  Grade  Certificate  in  Pianoforte  Playing 
Edith  Mavis   Abbott 
Bookkeeping  and  Typewriting 

Ethlyn  Elizabeth  Wilson 

Stenography  and  Typewriting 

Miriam  Hinds  White 

Typewriting 

Gertrude    Staples    Trafton 

Helen  Ward  Moss 

Marjorie  Vivian   Hussey 

Stenography 
Alice   Elvira   Phillips 
Helen    Prince 
Sibyl  Fae  Weymouth 


PRIZES   FOR  SCHOLARSHIP 

Awarded  for  the  highest  average  grade  in 

all    subjects    during   the    Junior    and    Senior 

year: 

First  Prize 

Olive  Louise  Chase,  88.4  per  cent 

Second   Prize 

Sibyl  Weymouth,  86.9  per  cent 

Honorable   Mention 
Frances    O'Brien,    86.4  per  cent 
Edith   Vance,   86.4  per   cent 
Alice  Phillips,  86.4  per  cent 

Virginia  Quarles  was  not  eligible  for  either 
of  these  prizes  as  she  was  in  residence  but  one 
year,  but  she  deserves  special  mention.  Her 
average  for  the  year  was  91.3  percent. 

The  names  of  the  girls  who  have  been 
awarded   first  and  second  prizes   in   scholar- 


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ship  since  1915,  when  this  custom  was  started, 

were  also  read : 

First   Prize  Second    Prize 

Lucile   Jocelyn  Gladys    Wilkes  1915 

Helen    Overholser  Maude    Hayden  1916 

Helen   Saunders  Dorothy  Stewart  1917 

Leontine   Goodman  Lois  Nichols  1918 

Honor  Credits   for  the  last  semester  were 

read  by  Miss  Packard : 

Aida  Beeche,  3  subjects,   12  periods,  88.3  per  cent, 

2  credits. 
Marjorie    Gustin,    4    subjects,    10    periods,    89.5    per 

cent,  2  credits. 
Margaret    Perley,    6    subjects,    14   periods,    89.8   per 

cent,  2  credits. 
Sybil  Weymouth,  5  subjects,  5  periods,  90  per  cent, 

2  credits. 
Edith  Vance,  5  subjects,  5  periods,  91.5  per  cent,  2 

credits. 
Helen  Brooks,  6  subjects,   13  periods,  91.7  per  cent, 

2  credits. 
Gladys   Burnet,   3   subjects,   13  periods,  92  per   cent, 

2  credits. 
Mildred  Patten,  3  subjects,  10  periods,  93.3  per  cent, 

2  credits. 

Helen  Files,  5  subjects,  15  periods,  93.7  per  cent,  3 

credits. 
Virginia  Quarles,  6  subjects,  16  periods,  94  per  cent, 

3  credits. 

Olive  Chase,  5  subjects,  13  periods,  94.2  per  cent,  2 
credits. 


COMMENCEMENT  EXERCISES 


Commencement  Day  was  marked  by  the 
same  enthusiasm  and  good  cheer  which  had 
been  manifested  all  through  the  closing  week. 
The  graduates  and  former  students  seemed 
particularly  happy  to  be  back  and  to  fall  into 
line  with  the  procession  which  made  its  way 
to  the  church.  Prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Drew  and  two  selections  for  violin, 
'cello,  and  organ  were  artistically  played. 

Congressman  Robert  Luce,  after  being  fit- 
tingly introduced  by  Dr.  Winslow,  then  gave  in 
a  finished  style  an  address  which  held  the  in- 
terest of  all  hearers,  young  and  older: 

COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 
Sir  Henry  Main  tells  of  a  traveller  among 
the  New  Zealanders  who  returned  to  a  tribe 
of  the  Aborigines  and  observed  the  absence  of 
a  venerable  man  who  had  on  his  previous  visit 
been  prominent  in  its  affairs.  Asking  what 
had  become  of  him  he  was  told  by  the  tribes- 
men that  he  gave  them  so  much  good  advice 


that  they  mercifully  put  him  to  death.  This 
is  the  fate  that  threatens  every  man  who  has 
occasion  to  deliver  a  graduating  address,  and 
in  the  attempt  to  avoid  even  your  wish  for 
such  punishment,  I  trust  you  will  not  look 
upon  me  as  a  preacher  but  as  a  creditor — a 
cheerful,  happy,  smiling  creditor  who  has 
come  here  this  morning  to  foreclose  a  mort- 
gage, and  demand  of  you  that  you  pay  the 
debt  of  the  scholar.  The  amount  of  this  debt 
might  be  computed  in  dollars  and  cents,  but 
forgetting  the  mercenary  aspect  of  it,  recall 
the  very  much  more  important  debt  that  you 
have  assumed  at  the  hands  of  your  parents 
and  of  the  community  in  form  of  sacrifice  and 
affectionate,  anxious  care  that  you  might  be 
in  a  position  to  repay.  And  to  understand  this 
debt  let  me  ask  you  to  consider  with  me  what 
is  the  purpose  of  the  school,  the  seminary,  the, 
college,  why  it  is  maintained.  Doubtless  the 
first  impulse  would  be  to  answer  that  it  is 
intended  for  the  benefit  of  the  scholar.  In  the 
first  place,  we  are  practical  enough  to  think 
of  its  benefit  in  helping  the  scholar  to  earn  a 
living. 

From  the  earliest  times  it  has  been  the  obli- 
gation of  men  to  earn  their  bread  in  the  sweat 
of  their  brow,  and  now  in  our  own  day  and 
generation  women  are  voluntarily  assuming 
a  share  in  the  same  obligation,  and  if  it  should 
be  that  some  of  you  will  all  through  your 
lives  have  occasion  to  earn  your  bread,  too,  in 
the  sweat  of  your  brow,  it  is  an  honorable 
thing,  for  the  first  demand  of  nature  is  the 
maintaining  of  life.  By  some  it  may  be  sug- 
gested that  the  school  is  maintained  for  the 
purpose  of  culture.  There  is  today  a  conflict 
between  the  two  conceptions  of  education — the 
cultivation  of  the  hands,  eyes,  and  body — man- 
ual training,  and  all  the  application  of  educa- 
tion in  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  the  other  the 
conception  that  education  should  be  cultural, 
that  it  should  exist  for  training  the  spirit  as 
well  as  the  mind  and  body,  and  this,  too,  is 
unquestionably  a  proper  purpose  of  the  school 
and  wisely,  too,  the  people  have  it  in  view. 
But  the  state  has  still  a  broader  purpose  than 


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that  of  enabling  you  to  make  a  living,  or  that 
of  enabling  you  to  enjoy  and  profit  by  art 
and  music  and  travel  and  literature.  It  is 
the  selfish  purpose,  the  purpose  of  self -pro- 
tection. I  want  to  call  your  attention  to  the 
majestic  words  of  the  constitution  of  Massa- 
chusetts. In  it  the  greatest  of  American 
statesman,  John  Adams,  said  "that  wisdom 
and  knowledge  as  well  as  virtue,  diffused 
among  the  body  of  the  people,  being  neces- 
sary for  preservation  of  their  rights  and  lib- 
erties, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  legislature  to 
encourage  learning,  seminaries,  colleges,  and 
especially  public  schools."  Notice  in  the  very 
center  of  that  declaration  comes,  "wisdom 
and  knowledge  .  .  .  necessary  for  preserva- 
tion of  rights  and  liberties."  And  therefore 
the  public  school  system  is  the  greatest  enter- 
prise of  a  cooperative  nature  that  men  have 
ever  undertaken,  and  all  its  departments  have 
been  developed  at  great  sacrifice  to  all  people. 
And  now  this  is  put  to  the  test  as  never  before 
since  education  became  a  public  concern. 

The  outlook  is  that  presently  in  all  the 
country  as  already  in  many  of  the  states,  the 
duty  of  sharing  with  men  in  maintaining  the 
institutions  of  government  will  be  placed  upon 
women,  and  whether  or  not  you  come  from  a 
state  that  already  has  placed  upon  you  that 
duty,  you  may  face  the  prospect  that  before 
many  years  there  will  be  official  sanction  in 
all  the  land  upon  the  principle  that  men  and 
women  alike  shall  find  it  a  direct  and  imme- 
diate duty  to  maintain  the  institutions  of  gov- 
ernment. 

We  see  more  than  one-half  of  Europe  in 
the  hands  of  revolutionists  defying  law  and 
order,  trampling  upon  the  rights  of  the  peo- 
ple, defying  the  church,  demolishing  property, 
and  turning  the  world  upside  down.  So  the 
young  women  are  now  to  share  with  us  this 
duty  of  protecting  that  thing  which  we  have 
held  dearer  than'-life  itself,  and  so  I  demand 
of  you  that  you  begin  to  repay  this  debt  which 
you  have,  either  consciously  or  unconsciously, 
accepted  by  bringing  to  our  aid  all  the  benefits 
of  the  training  and  knowledge  you  have  re- 


ceived. The  exercise  of  suffrage  is  but  a  sym- 
bol of  government.  Behind  that  is  the  public 
opinion.  The  further  duty  of  the  scholar  is 
to  share  in  forming  that  opinion  which  may 
stir  the  right  course  of  action,  and  that  is  to 
be  done  not  in  any  stilted  form  or  pompous 
manner.  It  is  through  our  daily  conversation 
that  public  opinion  is  formed. 

I  remember  in  a  novel  by  Jeffrey  Farnol  one 
sentence  where  he  says,  "Influence  is  immor- 
tal, and  we  are  always  exercising  influence  at 
every  turn  from  morning  to  night.  We  influ- 
ence others  by  our  conversation,  by  our  be- 
liefs expressed  either  casually  or  otherwise. 
In  fact  a  word  spoken  without  premeditation 
expressing  natural  bent  of  mind  may,  in  its 
ultimate  course,  fall  to  earth  like  the  arrow 
and  in  its  return  through  the  air  pierce  the 
heart  of  some  friend ;  may,  in  its  last  result, 
change  the  destiny  of  millions." 

Your  education,  some  of  you  may  think,  is 
now  completed.  Fallacy  !  Error  !  Your  edu- 
cation just  begins.  It  is  to  go  on  all  through 
life.  You  have  but  laid  the  foundation  of  it. 
You  are  going  to  keep  on  learning.  You  are 
going  to  learn  either  useful  things  or  useless. 
Every  address  to  which  you  listen,  every  en- 
tertainment, every  spoken  word  that  you  hear, 
is  going  to  contribute  to  the  shaping  of  your 
mind  and  the  developing  of  your  character, 
and  this  will  go  on,  and  it  is  for  you  to  choose 
whether  this  shall  be  your  gain  or  your  loss. 

What  is  education?  What  is  education? 
The  first  conception  is  the  least  that  education 
is  the  acquisition  of  knowledge,  of  facts,  of 
information.  Many  men  who  look  back  over 
so  many  years  as  I  confess  I  have  to  answer 
to  will  frankly  confess,  if  he  be  honest,  that 
he  has  retained  very  little  of  the  knowledge 
that  was  poured  into  him.  With  difficulty 
could  I  read  a  page  of  Latin,  the  same  is  true 
of  Greek,  although  at  one  time  I  could  say 
the  Greek  alphabet  backwards.  This  knowl- 
edge has  disappeared  and  vanished,  but  I 
shall  never  forget  the  sentence  that  our  Latin 
professor  had  frequent  occasion  to  address  to 
his  class,  short,  simple,  and  right  to  the  point, 


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and  doubtless  there  was  much  need  of  it, 
"Use  your  brains,  gentlemen ;  use  your 
brains."  And  if  education  has  led  you  to  use 
your  brains  it  has  accomplished  a  very  im- 
portant purpose.  Now  of  you  who  use  your 
brains,  what  is  the  serious  problem  for  you? 
A  Yale  professor  brought  out  sharply  the  im- 
portance of  the  use  of  the  brain  in  criticism. 
Now  by  criticism  I  do  not  mean,  of  course, 
fault-finding  or  censure  or  any  of  the  cheap 
and  vulgar  phases  of  criticism,  but  I  mean  the 
power  to  discriminate  between  truth  and  er- 
ror ;  the  power  to  read  a  newspaper,  and  have 
a  general  idea  of  what  is  to  be  trusted,  and 
what  to  be  discarded.  The  power  to  hear  a 
lecture  and  pass  judgment  upon  it.  In  the 
middle  ages  it  was  a  most  serious  offence  to 
think.  The  church  at  that  time  looked  with 
scorn  upon  anybody  who  ventured  an  inde- 
pendent judgment,  but  that  is  all  changed. 
Now  through  all  the  world  it  is  expected  of 
us  that  we  judge  as  we  read,  and  as  we  listen. 
According  as  you  can  decide  between  truth 
and  error,  you  will  or  will  not  contribute  to 
the  formation  of  that  public  opinion  upon 
which  I  have  dwelt. 

And  yet  there  is  something  still  beyond  the 
power  to  think,  something  greater  than  that, 
for  the  highest  purpose  of  education  is  to 
teach  you  how  to  live.  The  highest  purpose 
of  education  is  not  to  enable  us  to  do  some- 
thing, but  to  enable  us  to  be  something — to 
live  the  useful  life — to  live  the  life  that  shall 
be  fullest  and  most  roundly  complete,  that 
shall  bring  you  the  greatest  pleasure  and  profit, 
but,  more  than  that,  shall  bring  it  to  others. 
One  wise  man  declares  that  the  greatest  of 
errors  is  to  mistake  the  ultimate  end  of  knowl- 
edge. "Some  men  covet  it  in  order  that  they 
may  find  entertainment,  and  some  for  orna- 
ment or  reputation,  and  some  for  vanity,  and 
many  for  livelihood  and  lucre;  but  there  are 
few  who  seek  it  for  employing  the  divine  gift 
of  human  wisdom  for  the  use  and  benefit  of 
mankind."  So  the  great  Lord  Bacon  pointed 
out  that  it  must  be  only  the  few — please  God 
you   are   among   the    few — who   will   use   the 


knowledge  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  mankind. 

The  conferring  of  diplomas  and  the  charge 

to  the  graduating  class  by  Dr.  Winslow  was, 

as    always,    dignified    and    impressive.      The 

names  of  the  class  are  as  follows : 

"Carry    On" 
Edith  Mavis  Abbot  Elmwood,  Connecticut 

Isabelle  Lovitt  Adams  Dorchester,  Massachusetts 
Priscilla  Alden  North  Weymouth,  Massachusetts 
Eleanor  Hastings  Beamon  Plymouth,  Massachusetts 
Miriam  De  Frain  Bell  Beaver  Falls,  Pennsylvania 
Rosenda  Magdalena  Cabrera  Mexico  City,  Mexico 
Olive  Louise  Chase  Laconia,  New  Hampshire 

Frances  Coombs  Yarmouth,  Maine 

Ethel  Trafton  Frost  Central  City,  Colorado 

Dorothy  Charlotte  Hall  Swampscott,  Massachusetts 
Mary  Hopkins  Fort  Fairfield,  Maine 

Sarah  Hopkins  Fort  Fairfield,  Maine 

Dorothy  Mae  Hopper  Canonsburg,  Pennsylvania 
Marguerite  Carolyn  Houser  Miami,  Florida 

Deborah  Ingraham   .  Augusta,  Maine 

Jeannette  Mary  MacMurray 

Provincetown,   Massachusetts 
Helen  Ward  Moss  Glen  Ridge,  New  Jersey 

Mercie  Vinal  Nichols  Cohasset,   Massachusetts 

Frances  O'Brien  East  Orange,   New  Jersey 

Marian  Elna  Owen  Milo,  Maine 

Alice  Elvira  Phillips  Jamaica  Plain,  Massachusetts 
Virginia  Quarles  Kansas  City,  Missouri 

Ethel  Armstrong  Ramage 

East   St.  Johnsbury,   Vermont 
Phyllis  Dawson  Rowe  Bridgeport,   Connecticut 

Esther  Ruth  Shekerjian  Torrington,  Connecticut 
Gertrude  Staples  Trafton  Fort  Fairfield,  Maine 

Edith  Stratton  Vance  Port  Washington,  New  York 
Marion  Birmingham  Webber 

Dorchester,  Massachusetts 
Helen  Estelle  Webster  Wakefield,  Massachusetts 
Sibyl  Fae  Weymouth  Orange,  Massachusetts 

Frances  Adele  Wieder  Hartford,   Connecticut 

Ethelyn   Elizabeth  Wilson       Carlisle,   Massachusetts 


REUNION  OF  THE  ALUMNAE  AND 
FORMER    STUDENTS 


It  is  generally  admitted  that  the  Alumnae 
meeting  this  year  was  a  great  success.  The 
enlivening  presence  of  the  dynamic  Class  of 
'89,  the  large  and  lively  delegation  of  the  Class 
of  1918,  and  the  gracious  presence  of  the  guest 
of  honor,  our  former  preceptress,  Catherine 
J.  Chamberlayne,  was  cause  enough  for  our 
enthusiasm  and  success.  It  would  be  fifty 
years  next  September  since  Miss  Chamber- 
layne began  "her  reign"  at  Lasell.  As  our 
present  preceptress  said,  if  Miss  Chamber- 
layne will  insist  that  she  is  old,  w e  must  insist 
that  she  is  simply  masquerading.  We  will  not 
soon  forget  her  brilliant  response  to  the  gra- 


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cious  and  loving  welcome  extended  to  her  by 
Mary  Packard  Cass,  '89. 

Lasell  was  honored  again  this  year  by  the 
presence  of  four  members  of  the  dear  "old 
guard,"  Mary  Shaw  Rogers,  '56 ;  Emma  Sears 
May,  '57 ;  Fannie  Sykes  Davis,  '57 ;  Caroline 
Hills  Leeds,  '61.  Their  loyalty  and  unfailing 
enthusiasm  prove  a  constant  inspiration  to  the 
newer  "old  girls." 

We  submit  the  report  of  our  Secretary 
pro  tern,  Edith  Mounton. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Lasell  Alumnae 
Association  was  held  in  the  chapel  on  the 
afternoon  of  Commencement  day,  June  17th. 
The  president,  Josephine  Woodward  Rand, 
'10,  gave  a  few  words  of  greeting,  after  which 
the  reports  of  the  secretary  and  treasurer  were 
read  and  accepted.  The  treasurer's  report 
showed  that  $100  had  been  used  during  the 
year  for  hospital  work  in  France,  that  a  $1000 
bond  had  been  purchased,  and  that  $633.21  re- 
mained in  the  treasury. 

Miss  Lillian  Packard  read  a  note  from  Mrs. 
Cushing,  the  treasurer  who,  though  unable  to 
be  present,  urged  earnestly  that  the  members 
of  the  Alumnae  pay  their  dues ;  this  was  sup- 
plemented later  by  an  eloquent  appeal  on  the 
same  subject  from  Mrs.  Rand. 

Mrs.  Lillie  Fuller  Merriam,  '85,  presented 
the  report  of  the  Caroline  Carpenter  fund, 
which  showed  a  balance  of  $1734.38.  The 
Class  of  1919  was  then  voted  into  the  Alumnae 
Association,  their  president  accepting  grace- 
fully for  her  class.  After  a  motion  had  been 
made  and  carried  that  the  association  pay  for 
the  lettering  of  Bragdon  Hall,  the  report  of 
the  nominating  committee  was  made  by  Miss 
Potter,  the  secretary  casting  the  ballot.  The 
election  of  officers  was  as  follows : 

President,  Maud  S.  Harding,  '06;  vice- 
president,  Mildred  P.  Fuller,  '06;  secretary, 
Harriet  Scott,  '94;  treasurer,  Ella  Richardson 
Cushing,  '73. 

Mid-Winter  Reunion  :  Chairman,  Jose- 
phine Woodward  Rand,  '10;  Mildred  Hayden ; 
Jessie  Joy  McMillan,  '82. 

Executive  Committee :    Chairman,  Lillie  R. 


Potter,  '80;  Nellie  Packard  Draper,  '84;  Lil- 
lian M.  Packard,  '83. 

June  Meeting:  Chairman,  Nellie  Packard 
Draper,  '84;  Ruth  Coulter  Bierer,  '12;  Eliza- 
beth Linn  Manness. 

On  suggestion  of  Mrs.  Draper  it  was  voted 
to  send  a  night  letter  of  greeting  to  Dr.  Brag- 
don, and  it  was  also  decided  to  fill  out  from 
the  treasury  $11  for  the  support  of  a  Lasell 
French  orphan. 

The  business  of  the  day  being  finished,  Mrs. 
Nellie  Packard  Draper,  '84,  took  charge  of 
the  meeting  and,  after  a  roll-call  of  the  classes 
at  which  '89  and  '18,  who  were  having  special 
reunions,  were  particularly  well  represented, 
called  upon  Mrs.  Mary  Packard  Cass,  who 
gave  an  address  of  welcome  to  Miss  Cham- 
berlayne,  the  guest  of  honor.  Miss  Chamber- 
layne  made  a  most  interesting  response,  end- 
ing with  a  letter  written  to  her  by  Dr.  Brag- 
don. Would  that  our  Principal  Emeritus  had 
been  present  and  had  opportunity  to  respond 
to  Miss  Chamberlayne's  witty  remarks. 

Miss  Potter  caused  much  amusement  by 
reading  two  notes  written  by  Miss  Chamber- 
layne  thirty  years  ago  to  girls  in  the  class  of 
'89  concerning  their  behavior.  The  same  two 
girls  were  present  at  this  meeting  and  amid 
much  amusement  gave  their  somewhat  tardy 
excuses. 

Mrs.  Frances  Barbour  Sonntag  gave  the 
"old  girls"  much  pleasure  by  her  beautiful 
singing.  Dr.  Winslow  next  read  Dr.  Brag- 
don's  letter  of  greeting  to  all,  and  especially 
to  the  class  of  '89 ;  in  it  he  requested  that  Pro- 
fessor Hills  play  a  prelude,  and  then  that  all 
should  sing  "God  be  with  You  till  We  Meet 
Again,"  which  was  done.  Dr.  Winslow  closed 
the  meeting  with  warm  words  of  welcome  to 
the  "old  girls"  and  a  cheerful  prophecy  for 
the  future  of  Lasell,  giving  a  concrete  and 
touching  illustration  of  the  way  the  endow- 
ment money  is   used  in  serving  needy  girls. 


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SCENE   FROM   THE    "SONG    OF    HIAWATHA,"   WOODLAND   PARK   JUNE    REVELRY 


WOODLAND  PARK  JUNE  REVELRY 


From  Newton  Graphic 

On  Tuesday  afternoon,  June  10th,  the 
Woodland  Park  School  held  a  Revelry  on  the 
grounds  of  the  school. 

A  group  of  folk  dances  was  the  first  on 
the  program,  the  children  appearing  from  be- 
hind a  screen  of  evergreen  trees.  Following 
this  came  "Spring's  Awakening,"  a  very 
charming  operetta  in  which  the  children  rep- 
resented violets,  buttercups,  clovers,  daisies, 
while  robins  and  bluebirds  and  butterflies  hov- 
ered among  the  flowers,  and  the  rain  brought 
the  showers.  Spring  herself  was  represented 
by  Elizabeth  Retan  in  a  dainty  gown  of  pale 
green  covered  with  flowers  of  different  hues. 

The  bumblebee,  Donald  Winslow,  was  most 
attractive  in  a  suit  of  black  and  yellow,  as  he 
visited  the  different  flowers. 

Those  who  took  part  were : 

Spring — Elizabeth  Retan  ;  Violets,  Ruth 
Johanneson,  Evilda  Cheng,  Barbara  Sprague, 
Alice  Furbish,  Pauline  Gilman.  Frances 
Sprague,  Barbara  Edmands,  Shirley  Williams, 
Polly  Godfrey  ;  Rain — Robert  Sederquist ; 
Robin — Donald     Hansen  ;     Bluebird — Donald 


Winslow;  Butterflies — Harriet  Hanna,  Jane 
Brown  ;  Clovers — Gwendolyn  McDonald,  Ger- 
aldine  dark,  Clarice  Dennison ;  Daisies — 
Marjorie  Winslow,  Virginia  Hendrie,  Kath- 
erine  Braithwaite  ;  Buttercups — Clara  Mac- 
Kean,  Catherine  Brown,  Ines  Cabrera;  Bum- 
blebee— Donald  Winslow. 

The  May  Pole  Dance  was  unusually  well 
done,  all  the  intricate  winding  and  unwinding 
of  the  May  Pole  being  accomplished  without 
a  mistake  and  in  perfect  rhythm.  The  fol- 
lowing took  part  in  this  dance :  Erna  Schmidt, 
Dorothy  Campbell,  Louisa  Mueller,  Marian 
Kirby,  Mary  Palmateer,  Clara  MacKean, 
Helen  Palmateer,  Elizabeth  Retan,  Ines  Cabre- 
ra, Virginia  Hendrie,  Ruth  Ufford,  Marjorie 
Winslow,  Katherine  Braithwaite,  Catherine 
Brown,  Mary  Elizabeth  Frost,  Barbara  Han- 
sen. 

The  next  number  consisted  of  scenes  from 
Hiawatha.  The  poem  was  read  as  the  scenes 
were  being  given.  An  Indian  Dance  preceded 
the  scenes  themselves,  the  Indians  appearing 
in  true  Indian  fashion  over  the  brow  of  the 
hill  uttering  realistic  war  cries.     The  Child. 

{Continued  on  page  34) 


"Here  come  the  brides !"  Not  many,  but 
a  choice  company.  On  the  twenty-fourth  of 
May  Marjorie  Wentworth  Watkins  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Mr.  Edmund  Ambrose 
Lucey. 

The  marriage  of  Mabel  Caldwell  Jones,  '14, 
and  Captain  Arthur  Clifford  Carlton  is  an- 
nounced. They  are  at  home  at  Camp  Del 
Rio,  Texas. 

Janet  Sarah  Edgerly  became  Mrs.  Harold 
Everett  Fellows  on  the  tenth  of  June.  After 
the  tenth  of  September  they  will  be  at  home 
at  38  Main  Street,  Bradford,  Massachusetts. 

On  the  eighteenth  of  June  Isabel  Elizabeth 
Bradley,  '15,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Claren- 
don Earle  Streeter.  After  July  fifteenth  they 
will  be  at  home  at  Glasgow,  Kentucky. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Taylor  Hall  announce 
the  marriage  of  their  daughter  Mildred,  '12, 
to  Doctor  Otto  H.  Leber  on  the  eighteenth  of 
June. 

Helen  Sophia  Ferry  and  Mr.  Harold  James 
Babcock  were  married  on  June  the  eighteenth 
at  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts. 

Evelyn  Lloyd  Hauser  and  Elliott  Arno  Al- 
/en  of  New  York,  formerly  of  Worcester, 
were  married  at  the  Church  of  the  Transfig- 
uration (Little  Church  Around  the  Corner), 
New  York,  on  May  17th,  by  Rev.  G.  C. 
Houghton.    Evelyn  was  one  of  the  first  young 


women  to  offer  her  services  to  the  govern- 
ment at  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  She  spent 
last  winter  in  Los  Angeles  with  her  mother, 
where  she  was  prominent  in  Red  Cross  work. 
The  newspaper  account  gave  a  very  charming 
picture  of  Mrs.  Allen. 

Miss  Witherbee  was  given  a  pleasant  sur- 
prise recently  by  receiving  the  announcement 
of  the  engagement  of  Eleanor  Nielson  which 
"came  out"  in  a  dear  personal  note.  The  for- 
tunate man  is  Mr.  Harold  Moore.  Eleanor 
expresses  the  hope  that  their  wedding  journey 
will  bring  them  this  way,  when  she  promises 
surely  to  come  to  see  Miss  Witherbee  and 
Lasell. 

A  complete  and  fascinating  account  has 
come  to  us  from  a  local  paper  describing  the 
party  which  occurred  recently  at  the  home  of 
Mr.  R.  G.  Risser  announcing  the  engagement 
of  Marjorie  Risser,  '12,  to  Mr.  E.  Owen 
Blackwell  of  Memphis,  Tennessee.  One  of 
the  unique  features  of  this  engagement 
luncheon  was  that  the  place  cards  which  re- 
vealed the  interesting  secret  were  written  in 
rhyme.  Mr.  Blackwell  is  a  member  of  the  fa- 
mous Rainbow  Division,  having  taken  part  in 
every  battle  in  which  the  Americans  were  en- 
gaged and  being  wounded  and  gassed. 

Lasell  girls  of  the  past  few  years  will  be 
very   much   interested   in  the   engagement   of 


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Miss  Hazel  Hutchins,  Dr.  Winslow's  secre- 
tary, to  Mr.  Harold  J.  Moore. 

Our  heartiest  congratulations  to  this  pres- 
ent member  of  our  school  family  and  the  dear 
old  girls  whose  wedding  announcements  we 
have  just  given. 

In  a  recent  letter  to  our  Registrar,  Dr. 
Bragdon  enclosed  the  following  interesting 
news  items.  We  give  it  just  as  he  sent  it.  It 
is  a  mistaken  reporter  who  attempts  to  "doc- 
tor up"  the  terse,  original,  and  able  messages 
from  our  Principal  Emeritus. 

"Fraulein  Adele  M.  Roth,  for  many  years 
a  teacher  at  Lasell,  has  received  the  degree  of 
A.M.  from  the  University  of  California 
earned,  please,  not  honoris  causa.  Miss  Roth 
is  gifted  beyond  most  teachers,  I  know,  and 
this  is  a  recognition  of  only  a  small  part  of 
her  scholarly  attainments.  She  writes  us  that 
Annie  Alexander  lost  her  mother  some  time 
ago.  Annie  is  on  the  big  farm  in  the  Sacra- 
mento Delta. 

"Mrs.  Dr.  Scott  ( Lucy  Tappan,  once  a 
teacher  at  Lasell  and  later  at  Northfield  and 
a  missionary  to  Japan)  now  lives  in  Pasadena 
at  1265  Wesley  Avenue.  We  welcome  her  to 
Pasadena.  She  is  a  joy  and  a  strength  any- 
where. Mrs.  F.  D.  Moore  (June  Hoyt)  of 
East  Seattle,  Washington,  is  making  a  lengthy 
stay  at  Long  Beach,  California.  June  is 
handsomer  than  ever  and  twice  as  well  as 
handsome.  She  has  two  bonnie  lasses  with 
her.  She  says  they  are  her  daughters  but  it 
is  hard  to  realize  that  fact. 

"Winnie  Ewing  Coffin  made  a  sojourn  at 
Hotel  Maryland,  Pasadena.  She  hasn't  let 
the  years  touch  her  anywhere.  The  dear  ras- 
cal !  Mame  Seamans  has  been  in  Los  Angeles 
this  winter  with  her  mother.  She  is  loyal, 
wholesome,  and  interesting  as  always. 

"If  I  can  come  to  this  year's  Commence- 
ment it  will  be  my  last  visit  and  I  want  to  see 
there  all  the  'old  girls'  I  ever  knew !  I  won't 
be  able  to  go  after  you  youngsters !  You  must 
come  to  see  me.     C.  C.  B." 

At  last  we  have  received  a  live  message 
from    Constance   Blackstock,   who   opens   her 


letter  with  the  assertion  that  "Lasell  always 
seems  like  a  second  home  to  me."  In  speak- 
ing of  the  upheavals  in  India,  she  declares 
that  America  holds  a  high  place  in  the  hearts 
of  the  Indians.  This  is  especially  true  because 
they  know  only  American  missionaries  who 
intermingle  and  make  comrades  of  them.  She 
closes  with  loyal  greetings  to  her  Alma  Mater. 

We  have  recently  learned  of  the  passing 
away  of  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Goodwin,  the  mother 
of  our  Mary  Goodwin  Olmstead,  '03.  We 
cannot  forget  her  loyalty  to  our  school  and  are 
grateful  that  her  beautiful  life  in  such  a  per- 
sonal way  touched  Lasell. 

A  letter  from  Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Wythe  brings 
the  sad  tidings  of'  the  passing  away  of  our 
Mary  Wythe,  '09.  She  was  a  victim  of  the 
dread  influenza.  Mary  had  made  wonderful 
success  as  a  teacher  and  had  begun  to  show 
her  unusual  executive  ability  by  taking  charge 
as  a  dietitian  in  one  of  the  San  Francisco  hos- 
pitals. Our  tenderest  sympathy  is  extended 
to  the  bereaved  families  of  these  dear  friends. 

Miss  Edith  Collins,  former  mathematics 
teacher  at  Lasell,  has  sent  us  the  new  year 
book  of  her  school,  Pembroke  Hall,  a  most 
attractive  catalog,  and  we  wish  the  able  prin- 
cipal great  success  during  the  coming  year. 

Dear  Anna  Conant,  '09,  writes  from  Camp 
Stuart,  Virginia,  where  she  is  serving  as  a  reg- 
ular Red  Cross  nurse.  She  expresses  her 
loyalty  to  her  native  state,  New  Jersey,  in 
an  amusing  line  in  which  she  declares,  "If  I 
ever  return  to  old  Jersey  I  will  never  sing 
'Carry  me  back  to  old  Virginia'."  It  doesn't 
seem  possible  that  this  is  the  tenth  reunion 
of  Anna's  class.  As  she  truly  says,  "How 
quickly  time  has  passed  and  how  much  has 
happened  in  the  world  since  my  graduation." 

Madge  Shepard  sent  a  word  at  Commence- 
ment time  telling  of  her  work  in  connection 
with  the  Debarkation  Hospital  where  she  has 
charge  of  the  American  Library  Department 
and  she  has  also  been  working  among  the 
wounded  soldiers.  Madge  has  found  time  also 
for  service  in  the  Pershing  Club  for  Officers 
and  adds,  "I  shall  never  cease  to  be  grateful 


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to  Lasell's  P.  K.  course  and  Miss  Mount's  in- 
valuable instruction."  She  also  adds,  "I  keep 
in  pretty  close  touch  with  the  school  through 
the  Leaves."  Here  is  a  hint  for  some  non- 
subscriber.  We  wish  Madge  continued  suc- 
cess. 

We  had  an  unexpected  and  pleasant  call 
from  Miss  Harriet  H.  Kidder,  Peoria,  Illinois, 
who  tells  us  that  her  aunt,  Annie  E.  Kidder, 
was  a  student  in  Lasell  in  '57  and  had  always 
talked  so  much  about  the  school  that  this 
niece  came  out  of  her  way  in  order  to  visit 
her  aunt's  Alma  Mater.  We  greatly  appre- 
ciated her  call. 

In  a  note  to  our  Preceptress,  Lela  Goodall, 
'08,  writes  from  Sanford,  Maine,  "At  present 
Mildred  and  my  father  are  in  Washington 
for  the  special  session  of  Congress.  Later  my 
father  goes  with  a  commission  to  visit  the  bat- 
tlefields." The  labor  question  in  a  way  doesn't 
faze  our  Lela,  for  she  quietly  remarked, 
"When  a  domestic  fails  to  appear,  I  simply 
do  the  work  myself." 

What  a  joy  it  was  seeing  so  many  of  our 
dear  old  girls  "back  home"  at  this  Commence- 
ment time.  Not  in  many  years  has  there  been 
such  a  reunion  as  this  year,  girls  like  dear 
Lilian  Douglass,   '07,  here  all  the  way   from 


California, 
guests  were : 


Among 


these     thrice    welcome 


Grace  Huntington,   '89 
Annie  Gage  Booth 
Susan  Hallock  Couch 
Laura   Conger   Buchan 
Frances  Barbour  Sonntag,  '89 
Ruby   Blaisdell    Carter 
Elizabeth   Harwood   Fones,   '89 
Mercy  Sinsbaugh  Ingalls 
Mary  Packard  Cass,  '89 
Maud  Mathews,  '89 
Minnie  Adams  Hamilton 
Annie  Gwinnell,  '88 
Anna  Jones  Bourne.  '88 
Maude   Oliver   Harding,   '89 
Winnie  Ewing  Coffin,  '89 
Helen  White  Fogg,  '88 
Lou  Osgood  Hills 
Florence   Fuller   Ingraham 
Nellie  Packard  Draper,  '84 
Irene  Sauter  Sanford,  '06 
Lilian  Douglass,  '07 
Edna   Christiansen 
Margrethe  Bauman.   '15 
Florence  Shields  Miller,  '14 
Isabelle   Mullen 
Irene  Ball  Sill,  'IS 


Lydia  Adams,  '18 
Constance  Allen,  '18 
Dorothy  Barnes,   '18 
Mildred  Cary,  '18 
Kathryn   Craig,  '18 
Annie  Dimond,  '18 
Elsie  Flight,  '18 
Cornelia  Gaty,  '18 
Leontine   Goodman,   '18 
Doris  Gorke,  '18 
Huldah  Halley,  '18 
Helen  Hart,  '18 
Octavia  Hickcox,  '18 
Anita  Hotchkiss,  '18 
Marjorie   Kiinkel,    '18 
Margaret  Mclntyre,  '18 
Barbara  McLellan,  '18 
Priscilla  Morris,  '18 
Lois   Nichols,   '18 
Esther  Norcross,  '18 
Lucinda  Obermeyer,  '18 
Marion  Oram,  '18 
Irvina  Pomeroy,  '18 
Helen    Selkirk,   '18 
Helen   Smith,  '18 
Clara    Spinney    Colby,    '18 
Roxana    Stark,    '18 
Helen  Warner,   '18 
Gail  Wilson,  '18 
Ruth  Newcomb,  '18 
Dorothy  Crane,  '16 
Maude  Hayden.  '16 
Ruth   Griffin,   '16 
Marion  Beach,  '16 
Eleanor  McCarthy,  '16 
Alma  Sweet.  '16 
Carol  Rice,  '16 
Edna  Wise  Haas 
Dorothy  Fink  Willson,  '13 
Juliette   Beach   Barker,   '13 
Florence    Baker 
Elsie  Doleman,  '14 
Charlotte  Ryder,  '08 
.Lela  Goodall,   '08 
Harriet  Frey 
Florence  Bell.  '17 
Mildred   Strain.   '17 
Alice  Jenks.  '17 

Eugenia   Skinner   Shorrock,  '17 
Gertrude  Allen.  '17 
Hazel  Brady,   '17 
Ruth  Burnap,  '17 
Miriam  Day.  '17 
Lillian   Laffey,   '17 
Marjorie  Morrison,  '17 
Dorothy  Redmond.  '17 
Jessie  Shepherd.  '17 
Maude  Simes  Harding,  '06 
Mary  Vance,  '99 
Bessie  Rooer  Conant 
Ethel  D.  Loud,  '96 
Rosanna  Best 
"Ruth   Coulter  Bierer,  '12 
Elizabeth  Linn  Manness,  '13 
Ida  Beane  Rice.  '15 
Myra  Eby  Cramhead.  '14 
Nan   Peabody  Hall,   '91 
Emma   Sears   May 
Mary  Shaw  Rogers 
lessie  J.   MacMillan.  '82 
Hazen  Thornton 
Norma  MacMillan 


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Marjorie  Speers 
Mary  Gould 
Adelyn   Pearce 
Ruth  Cody 
Ruth   Lippitt 
Ruth  Malley 
Georgina  Flattery 
Beulah  Coward  Bresee 
Mary  King 
Esther  Rodie 
Mildred    Holtorf 
Alice  McFarland 
Margaret  McKay 
Lavinia  Morrison 
Una  Storrs 
Pauline   Winter 
Florence   Skinner 
Lillian  Astill 
Marion  Pomeroy 
Josephine   Fish 
Helene   Pearce 
Ruth    Taylor 
Hazel   Palmer 
Edith  B.  Wells 
Mary  Wales   Smith 
Edith  F.  Moulton,  '99 
Mary   Upham    Clark,    '02 

While  devoted  to  her  new  school,  James- 
town College,  North  Dakota,  Florence  Reed 
keeps  a  very  central  place  in  her  heart  for 
Lasell.  She  is  now  the  secretary  of  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  and  into  no  end  of  good  works. 

Ruth  Sykes  Block's,  '08,  fortune  is  increas- 
ing. She  has  just  come  into  possession  of  a 
precious  little  daughter.  Our  congratulations 
to  her  and  to  Mildred  Keasor  Pitman  who, 
with  her  husband,  is  rejoicing  over  the  birth 
of  a  little  son,  Robert. 

We  are  still  regretting  that  Annie  Gwinnell, 
'88,  was  unable  to  "stay  over"  Commencement 
time.  She  kindly  dropped  in  for  a  few  days 
previous  but  was  obliged  to  return  to  New 
Jersey  a  day  or  two  before  our  great  day. 

July  1st  our  Lasell  party  under  Miss  Pot- 
ter's chaperonage  starts  for  California.  They 
are  hoping  to  meet  some"  of  the  Lasell  girls, 
especially  in  Denver,  Pasadena,  San  Francisco, 
and  Portland,  and,  of  course,  the  most  impor- 
tant shrine  will  be  the  home  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Bragdon. 

The  editor  in  charge  of  the  Personal  col- 
umn is  wishing  to  say  many  things  about  all 
the  dear  girls  who  were  back,  but  has  a  feel- 
ing that  this  is  to  be  written  up  by  the  special 
reporters  for  Commencement  time. 

We  were   rejoiced  to  have  our  dear  Mrs. 


Winslow  with  us  during  at  least  a  part  of 
Commencement  Day.  It  so  happened  that  her 
Smith  College  class  had  its  anniversary  on  the 
same  day  and,  as  she  was  one  of  the  after- 
dinner  speakers,  she  was  obliged  to  slip  away 
during  the  afternoon. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gordon,  so  beloved  by  the  old 
girls  of  recent  times,  visited  Auburndale  fre- 
quently during  these  spring  days,  and  once 
the  school  had  an  opportunity  of  hearing  this 
soldier-pastor  in  the  Congregational  Church. 
Wre  do  not  know  their  plans  for  the  future,  but 
our  best  wishes  always  follow  them. 

We  are  selfishly  sorry  to  have  our  dear  Miss 
Rand  leave  us  even  for  a  Sabbatical  year,  but 
Columbia  University  is  calling  her  and  she 
will  spend  next  year  with  Miss  Dolley  in  post- 
graduate work.  Miss  Meserve  is  also  regis- 
tered at  Columbia  for  next  year.  Our  best 
wishes  go  with  these  teachers. 

We  know  that  they  will  be  written  up  in 
full,  that  class  of  '89,  but  we  cannot  help  put- 
ting in  our  own  personal  word  of  commenda- 
tion and  appreciation.  Seldom  has  Lasell  wit- 
nessed such  "pep,"  instigated  by  loving  loyalty 
to  the  school,  as  was  evidenced  in  this  dear 
group  of  girls.  Those  who  were  in  the  main 
dining  room  on  Commencement  Day  will  not 
soon  forget  their  enthusiasm  and  the  splendid 
overtures  made  by  the  class  of  '18  their  way. 
The  songs  and  cheers  and  Ohelas  certainly 
delighted  the  graduating  class,  their  guests, 
and  old  girls. 

How  favored  and  honored  Lasell  has  been 
in  the  long  friendship  and  years  of  service 
given  to  the  school  by  the  former  Preceptress, 
Miss  Catherine  J.  Chamberlayne.  In  her  ad- 
dress she  had  somewhat  to  say  about  Profes- 
sor Hills  having  drank  of  the  Fountain  of 
Youth.  The  same  words  could  most  properly 
be  applied  to  Miss  Chamberlayne.  We  are 
thankful  she  is  still  Lasell's  near  and  loyal 
neighbor. 

We  cannot  refrain  from  expressing  our  de- 
light over  this  potent  and  dear  message,  so 
characteristic  of  our  beloved  Principal  Emeri- 


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tus.     Through  the  courtesy  of  Dr.  Winslow, 
our  Principal,  Dr.  Bragdon's  letter  follows : 

Hollywood,  California. 
You  dear  old  "troubles" : 

Five  and  forty  years  ago  in  August  we 
slipped  out  of  that  station  hack  through  the 
cold  rain  onto  the  front  porch  of  such  part 
of  this  building  as  existed  then — a  fragment 
of  what  it  is  today.  No  one  was  here  to  re- 
ceive us  and  we  got  entrance  by  forcing  back 
a  kitchen  window-fastening  by  a  rusty  case 
knife  I  picked  up  in  the  yard.  We  found  some 
chips  and  warmed  some  milk  for  the  three 
months'  baby  and  finished  the  lunch  we  had 
brought  from  Williamsport.  Such  was  our 
welcome. 

For  thirty-four  years  we  loved  and  labored 
here,  seeing  additions  to  this  building,  and 
other  buildings  acquired,  expansion  of  the 
course  of  study,  the  inauguration  of  work  in 
Domestic  Science,  to  which  Lasell  led  the  way 
for  the  world,  increase  in  numbers  until  we 
had  to  decline  applications  (in  one  summer, 
'90).  How  other  schools  did  scold  when  we 
began  to  teach  Cooking !  and  Dress  Cutting, 
etc.  But  what  school  today  omits  Domestic 
Science  from  grammar  school  to  college  ? 

There  is  in  your  catalogue  no  class  for  1875 
because  those  who  would  have  been  gradu- 
ated in  '75  under  the  old  course  loyally  chose 
to  take  the  advanced  work  and  graduate  in 
-1876.  Fine  girls  those.  I  wonder  where 
Sarah  Smith  is  now  ?  The  others  have  long 
ago  passed  to  the  new  life  beyond. 

0  those  fighting  years !  How  rich  they 
were  and  how  sweet  with  quarrels ! 

1  do  believe  I  was  never  so  disappointed  in 
my  life — not  even  when  Lil  Packard  turned 
out  the  way  she  did !  and  I  had  tried  so  hard 
to  make  a  good  woman  of  her ! 

To  be  sure  there  have  been  other  trials ! 
To  think  "Jennie  Don't"  should  do  so !  For  a 
while  I  did  have  some  hopes  that  Winnie 
Ewing  would  grow  to  be  something  worth 
while,  but  there  she  is — you  can  see  for  your- 
selves.     (Winnie,    stand!)      And    there   was 


Matt  Ransom !  We  supposed  we  had  her 
under  our  own  eyes,  but  they  didn't  seem  to 
see  far  enough.  And  the  Lasell  Baby !  Who 
would  have  guessed  she  would  go  into  politics 
and  be  the  President  of  the  President  of  the 
Senate  ? 

But  there !  Why  name  all  the  smaller  dis- 
appointments when  the  big  sorrow  stares  me 
in  the  face  that  I  am  not  looking  all  you  ras- 
cals in  the  face!  What  lovable  (mind  you,  I 
am  not  saying  "lovely" — that  cheap  word  is 
not  for  this  solemn  hour  or  place — you  know 
how  I, have  rebuked  you  from  this  platform 
for  that  old  refuse  of  the  inarticulate  "per- 
fectly lovely")  — what  lovable  rascals  you 
have  come  to  be — who  could  have  prophesied 
it? 

Do  one  thing  for  me  now  and  another  later. 
Take  hold  of  your  left  hands  with  your  right 
and  imagine  your  old  Principal  is  shaking 
hands  with  each  of  you  as  he  would  like  to 
do — Now,  shake !  You  may  be  sure  he  would 
be  doing  it  if  it  were  possible,  for  he  has  for 
many  months  counted  on  seeing  you  at  this 
Commencement. 

There  are  some  I  would  miss  as  you  do. 
It  is  not  hard  for  me  to  feel  that  Miss  Car- 
penter and  Miss  Nutt  are  with  you  today ;  yet 
it  isn't  quite  the  same  as  if  they  were  bodily 
present  to  give  you  greeting  and  wish  you 
joy  of  your  home  coming.  What  strength  and 
sweetness  abode  in  those  women.  They'd  give 
you  a  deserved  cuff  with  one  hand  and  bring 
you  hot  lemonade  with  the  other.  And  the 
faithful  Angeline  Blaisdell,  whose  fifty  years 
at  Lasell  lived  out  her  favorite  motto,  "Trifles 
make  perfection  and  perfection  is  no  trifle." 
Her  fingers,  stiffened  in  your  and  my  service, 
are  supple  now  and  doing  some  good  work,  I 
am  sure. 

Be  glad,  as  I  am  glad,  that  we  ever  knew 
such  women,  my  girls.  Be  glad,  too,  that  you 
have  Miss  Chamberlayne  with  you  today. 
She  is,  as  she  always  was,  a  sample  and  an 
example  of  the  fine  woman,  the  greatest  cre- 
ation of  God. 

( Continued  on  page  36) 


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JOKES 

Be   Thankful 

Were  it  not 

For  this  sweet  verse 
There'd  be  a  joke  here 

Ten  times  worse. 


Betty  Stevens  (on  May  Day):  "That  re- 
porter keeps  staring  at  my  nose." 

Al  Grimes :  "Well,  he  was  told  to  keep  his 
eye  on  anything  that  turns  up." 


For  good  looking  girls  only — 

j  }13duod  aij;  \[e  jo  'lPA\ 


Virgie :  "What  was  that  terrible  noise  in 
Miss  Packard's  room  just  now?" 

Phil :  "Oh !  That  was  Fran  O'Brien  drop- 
ping typewriting." 


Who  said  Glee  Club  Concert  wasn't  a  howl- 
ing success? 


F.  Folsom :    "What  would  you  do  if  your 
tongue  got  tired?" 

A.  Brady :    "I'd  let  my  teeth  chatter." 


Pinky:    "Is  the  light  out  in  the  hall? 
Mercie :    "Yes,  do  you  want  me  to  bring  it 
in?" 


Miss  Meserve  :   "What  is  steam  ?" 
Helen  Preston :   "It's  water  gone  crazy  with 
the  heat." 


"Little  words  of  wisdom, 
Little  words  of  bluff, 

Make  the  teachers   tell  us : 
"Sit  down,  that's  enough." 


Ex. 


Miss  S :    "What  is  the  connecting  link  be- 
tween the  animal  and  vegetable  kingdom?" 
Helene :    "Hash !" 


Dot  Hopper:  "Please  put  a  joke  about  me 
in  The  Leaves." 

Editor :  "You  had  your  picture  in  the  May 
issue,  didn't  you  ?" 


Don't  kick  about  these  jokes.     You  may  be 
old  yourself  some  day. 


"Boo"  Gillies :  "I  bet  I  can  make  a  worse 
face  than  you." 

Slockbower:  "Well,  look  at  the  one  you 
have  to  start  with." 


Roma  (in  Lasell  Athletic  field)  :  "Why  is 
a  baseball  diamond  called  a  diamond  when 
it's  square?" 

Phelps :  "I  suppose  because  so  many  spark- 
link  things  are  pulled  off  on  it." 


AYE  TEER   FULL  TAIL 


"Once  their  wars  aye  loansum  made, 

She  luv  day  sell  fish  buoy, 

An  divry  tyme  he  smyle  dat  ter, 

Her  hart  wuz  full  love  jouy. 

But  soone  she  foun  day  lass,  say  lass, 

Her  luv  wuz  knot  returned, 

Her  one  drus  I's  with  teers  wuz  fild, 

And  der  hart  wit  saw  row  berned. 

The  brew  tea  own  lee  laff  dat  her 

And  ridee  kuld  her  plea. 

He  sed,  "isle  never  cair  four  yu, 

Youre  luv  iz  knot  four  me." 

Then  sed  the  made,   'M'eye  hart  is  broak, 

M'eye  pocket  book  iz  two, 

I'm  goi  wing  hoam  an  den  det  tall. 

Adoo  !   fall  swun,  Adoo  !'  " 


WOODLAND  PARK  JUNE  REVELRY 

(Continued  f torn  page  28) 

Hiawatha,  was  taken  by  a  little  Chinese  girl, 

who  is  in  the  school.     Those  taking  part  in 

"Hiawatha"  were  the  following: 

Louise  Mueller,  Bessie  Savage,  Rosamund 
Rice,  Gladys  Trueman,  Elizabeth  Pomeroy, 
Dorothy  Campbell,  Avis  Hurst,  Eleanor 
Faxon. 

For  the  closing  number  twelve  girls  in 
patriotic  costume  sang  Van  Dyke's  "Home 
Again"  followed  by  a  military  march,  and 
"The  Star  Spangled  Banner." 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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AS   OTHERS   SEE   US 


Ferry  Tales: 

"Lasell  Leaves  has  an  attractive  cover.  I 
like  the  idea  of  having  snap-shots  of  each  of 
the  class  presidents  in  the  front  of  the  book. 
The  headings  of  the  different  departments  are 
very  appropriate.  The  girls  at  Lasell  Semi- 
nary certainly  have  an  interesting  magazine." 
The  As tar : 

Lasell   Leaves :     "We   like   very   much   the 
school  spirit  that  is  brought  out  in  your  mag- 
azine.    Why  not  write  up  school  athletics  in 
your  paper?" 
The  Cue: 

Lasell  Leaves :  "Loyal  to  alumnae  and  fully 
one-half  space  devoted  to  "Old  Girls."  One- 
half  the  remainder  devoted  to  school  notes 
and  a  paltry  quarter  of  the  paper  is  taken  up 
by  the  literary  end.  With  such  a  rich  mine 
of  material  to  draw  upon,  you  could  almost 
afford  to  publish  an  alumnae  magazine  and 
have  the  Lasell  Leaves  more  to  the  school 
itself." 
Lai  Bagh  Chronicle: 

"Welcome  Lasell  Leaves !  Your  pictures 
are  bonny.  Your  whole  magazine  is  full  of 
interest  and  well  developed." 


The  Sagamore,  Brookline,  Mass. :  Your 
paper  is  complete  as  to  school  activities,  but 
where  are  your  snaps  ? 

The  Acropolis,  Newark,  N.  J. :  Good  wit 
in  your  column,  "Taps  on  The  Funny  Bone." 

The  Advance,  Salem,  Mass. :  Your  exchange 
column  is  unique  and  your  paper  as  a  whole 
is  well  unified. 


The  Gleam,  Saint  Paul,  Minn. :  "The  Light- 
house Keeper  of  Norfjord"  surely  is  a  clever 
story. 

The  Magpie,  Waterbury,  Conn. :  Where 
are  your  jokes  and  snaps?  Don't  you  think 
they  enliven  a  paper? 

The  Cliathamite,  Lynchburg,  Va. :  Your 
poetry  is  the  best  of  any  found  in  our  ex- 
changes. 

M.  P.  S.,  "Bethlehem,  Pa. :  We  like  the  idea 
of  having  different  classes  edit  your  paper. 
Your  joke  cut  is  exceptionally  good. 

We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  follow- 
ing exchanges : 

The  Orange  and  Black — Middletown,  Conn. 

The  Aegis — Beverly,  Mass. 

Hotchkiss  Literary  Monthly — Lakeville, 
Conn. 

Poly  Life — Baltimore,  Md. 

The  Cue — Albany  Academy,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

The  Roman — Rome,  Ga. 

The  Shucis — Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Ferry  Talcs — Lake  Forrest,  111. 

The  Orange — White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

The  World— -St.   Paul,  Minn. 

Lai  Bagh  Chronicle — Lucknow,  India. 

Ye  Gossip — The  Scudder  School,  New 
York  City. 

The  Radnoritc — Wayne,  Pa. 

The  High  School  News — Beaumont,  Texas. 

The  Gleam — St.  Paul,  Minn. 

The  Artesan — Bridgeport,   Conn. 

The  Villa  Marian — Immaculata,  Pa. 

The  Attic— Passaic,  N.  J. 

The  Herald — Holyoke,   Mass. 

The  Columbian — Columbia,  S.  C. 

The  0 mil— New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 

The  Optimist — Newark,  N.  J. 

Lawrence  High  School  Bulletin — Lawrence, 
Mass. 

The  Amydgalaid — Houghton,  Mich. 

The  Dalhousie  Gazette — Halifax,  N.  S. 

The  Brimmer  School  Magazine — Boston, 
Mass. 

The  Early  Trainer — Lawrence,  Mass. 

Philomath — Framington,  Mass. 

High  School  Review — Lowell,  Mass. 


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The  Goldenrod — Wayne,  Neb'r. 

The  Tattler— Waterloo,  N.  Y. 

The  Astar — Newark,  N.  J. 

The  Blue  Bird — New  York  City. 

The  Advance — Salem,  Mass. 

The  Acropolis — Newark,  N.  J. 

The  Dickinson  Union — Williamsport,  Pa. 

The  Sunnyside — Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 

The  Lion — La  Grange,  111. 

The  Exponent — Greenfield,  Mass. 

The  Sagamore — Brookline,  Mass. 

Alpha— New  Bedford,  Mass. 

The  Academy  Monthly — Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Keene  Kronicle — Keene,  N.  H. 

The  Critic — Lynchburg,  Va. 

The  Franklin — Cincinnati,  O. 

The   Tradesman — Boston,   Mass. 

The  Budget— Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

The  Magpie — Waterbury,   Conn. 

Montpelier  Seminary — Montpelier,  Vt. 

The  Mirror — Pratt,  Kansas. 

The  Headlight — Richmond,  Ind. 

The  Student's  Reviezv — Northampton,  Mass. 

The  Rail  Splitter— Lincoln,  111. 

The  Record — Patchogue,  N.  Y. 


PERSONAL 

{Continued  from  page  33) 

And  you  wonderful  class  of  '89;  you  make 
a  record  today — eight  of  you  out  of  twelve 
after  30  years.  I  doubt  if  its  equal  has  been 
or  ever  will  be  made.  But  you  miss  your 
Edith  and  Josephine  today — gentle  souls  they 
were  and  winsome.  So  they  are  still,  and  bet- 
ter.    Believe  it. 

Now  where  is  that  sturdy  live-oak,  the  ever- 
lasting? Prof.  Joseph  A.  Hills.  Go  to  the 
piano,  Prof.  Hills,  and  play  a  little  prelude 
as  you  used  to  do  on  the  opening  morning  of 
the  year  and  then  play  as  you  only  can  play 
when  you  feel  like  it  and  you  girls  sing  as 
only  Lasell  girls  can  sing,  "God  be  with  you 
till  we  meet  again"  and  I'll  be  thinking  of 
you  while  you  sing. 

Don't  we  wish  that  dear  Prof.  Davis,  the 
General  Davis,  who  left  us  all  too  soon,  could 


lead  ?  I  know  !  Fan  Barbour,  you  go  to  the 
piano  and  lead!  Now  all  together  for  Auld 
Lang  Syne ! 

A  nd  God  be  with  you  all,  till  we  meet  again ! 

C.  C.  Bragdon. 


Miss  Witherbee  has  presented  to  the  school 
library  two  valuable  works,  Shakespeare  on 
the  Stage  by  William  Winter,  and  History  of 
English  Rhythms  by  Guest. 


Pure,  delicious, 
wkolesome 
A  well  made  cup  of  | 

BAKER'S  COCOA 

is  a  larde  part  of  a 
£>ood  meal. 

It  is  practically  all 
nutrition, very  little 
■waste,  and  its  use 
saves  other  roods. 

TRADE  MARK  Off  EVERY  PACKAGE 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

2B  Park  St.,  Boston  Tel.  Hay  market  1150 

Send     for     our     recent     catalogues.     Mail 

orders  filled  the  same  day   as  received. 

Music   sent   on   selection   if   desired. 


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AUBURNDALE       MASSACHUSETTS 

JL                    BATCHELDER 
Jj|fW           &  SNYDER  CO. 

''iS^^'l^Wl^^ ""  ^\t,^[h.              Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 

WWtfff''^    l^lWE^fH^d  Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
^^iii1,*^B*:a*»yjM<^2!li  P°rk,  Hams,  Bacon,    Sau- 
pSsWfm LSjTmftUlI'UlB  «a8es'  Poultry.  Game,  But- 
y<SiM|Mt^ia?K^2Pml  ter-  Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
■sjg^J,^!!!!!!!]]^^         O.le,  Fre.h,  Salt  and 
ISwSTiltS  IS    1  iTi'  i"i"iIiaJ1Yrf7aH                   Smoked  Fish 

HlMlfflS  BLACKSTONE,    NORTH, 
JKHEmH            NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

Telephone  Richmond  3000 

Now  Open  to  Regular  Boarders  and  Transients 
Ideal  country  surroundings 
Only  ten  miles  from  Boston 

NEAR 

Brae  Burn  Country  Club 
Woodland  Golf  Club 
Norumbega  Park 
Charles  River 

ATTRACTIONS 

Tennis,  Pool,  Bowling 
Canoeing  and  Boating 
Well-equipped  Garage 
Excellent  Table 
Private  Baths 

Moderate  Rates— $14  to  $25  per  week 

For  reservations,  address 

THE  WOODLAND  PARK 

AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 

Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS- AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 

M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phones  Richmond  202-203-3087 

COMPLIMENTS  OF 
A  FRIEND 

Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 

TELEPHONES                            RUDOLF  STOLAR 
Richmond   883,  885 

R.  STOLAR 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 
Pork,   Beef,    Lamb    and     Veal 

Stalls  3    and    5    New   Faneuil    Hall   Market 
BOSTON,   MASS. 

LASELL    LEAVES 


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$xn  anh  prompt  Mtm»nj. 


40 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 

PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  .synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place        15  West  Street 


_ 


Collins  &  Fairbanks  Co. 


AND 


Summer  3tejs 


Women's  Coats  -  Burberrys  -  London 
Make 

Leather  Jackets  in  varied  colors 
and  styles 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid   in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.  F.  RICE,  Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  Cumming,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,   McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT   P.    SMITH 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST    UPON    HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints   and  Varnishes 

For  over  78  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter- Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established    1840 
Store  77-79  Sudbury  St.  Boston,  Mass. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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New  Spring  Hats 

Reflecting  the  latest  note  in 
authentic  fashions 

New  Sailors     Watteau  Style 
Smart  Close-Fitting  Turbans 

Beautiful  Flower-Trimmed  Hats 

$7.50  to  $15.00 


C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

Summer,  Chauncy  and  Avon  Streets 
BOSTON,  MASS. 


Shop 
By  Mail 


Telephone 
Beach  3460 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WING  TIP  BOOTS 

A  new  model   in  Dark  Brown  Calf  with 

Military  Heels.   Also  in  Black  or   Brown 

Calf   with    Buckskin   Tops 


160  Tremont  Street 


Boston 


2L  f.  TJfuiiantor  &  do. 

Misses'     and     Young    Ladies' 

Suits,     Coats     and     Dresses 

FOR    EVERY    OCCASION 


Featuring  Practical  Garments  for  School  Wear 

at  Popular  Prices 


COMPLIMENTS  OF 

loittaaro  Jlljarmarg 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


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BEACH   1561 

PHONE  OR  WRITE  US  FOR 

"That  Piece  of  Music 
you  heard  the 
other  day" 

The  Boston  Music  Co. 

26  West  Street 

BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Mail  Orders  a  Specialty 


ax  Brothers 

TTop/srs 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipt 

Packed  in   Stone  Jars 

A.  T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.   577   Haymarket 
Send   for    price    list    of  over   60    kinds 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor  Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 

Dealers  in  Foreign   and 

Domestic  Fruits 

Confectionery,    Cigars 

and  Tobacco 

331  AUBURN  ST.,      AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 
Tel.  Con.    1275  N.  W. 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1907 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 

College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1  45 


Tel.  Richmond  1463 


Osmon  C.  Bailey,  Pres. 


Lowell  Bros.  &  Bailey  Co. 

FRUIT  &  PRODUCE 

69,  71   and  73  Clinton  Street 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


BUNKER  HILL 

COFFEE 


makes^our  breakfasi 
doubly  enjoyable. 
It  is  a  new  delight 
every  morning 

FRESH  GROUND  ALWAYS  IN 
THE  RED  BUNKER  HILL  BAG 


DELANO  POTTER  &C0.  BOSTON  MASS 


The    most    delicate    and      delicious   flavored 
chocolate   to    be   found   anywhere 


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LASELL  SEMINARY 

AUBURNDALE         MASSACHUSETTS 

THE  GOAL  OF  THE  SCHOOL  is  to  arouse  appreciation  of  the  best  in  life  and  to 
develop  the  best  in  each  student. 

COURSE  OF  STUDY  is  from  first  year  high  school  through  two  years  for  high  school 

graduates. 
SPECIAL  COURSES  give  training  in  all  phases  of  Homemaking,  Secretarial  Training, 

Academic  Music  and  Art. 
CULTURAL  ADVANTAGES  of  the  city  are  utilized. 

OUTDOOR  SPORTS  and  recreation  of  many  forms  play  a  part  in  the  school  activities. 
DELIGHTFUL  LOCATION  on  a  thirty-acre  estate  ten  miles  from  Boston. 

For  booklets  address 

GUY  M.  WINSLOW,  Ph.D.,  Principal 
WOODLAND  ROAD,  AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


WanManit  f  ark 


A  BOARDING  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS  AND  A  COUNTRY  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS,  AND  FOR  BOYS  UNDER  TEN 

THE  JUNIOR  DEPARTMENT  OF  LASELL  SEMINARY 

Located  in  attractive  and  comfortable  buildings  formerly  known  as  the  Woodland  Park  Hotel 

ALL  GRAMMAR  GRADES 

Conversational  French,  Music  with  supervised  practice,  Drawing,  Sewing,  Folk  and  Social 
Dancing  and  Deportment,  Swimming  and  Riding ;  Individual  attention  ;  an  abundance  of  good 
wholesome  food,  fresh  air,  exercise  and  sleep. 

VISITORS  ALWAYS  WELCOME 
Come  and  see  the  school  and  talk  over  the  problem. 

For  catalogue  address  GUY   M.   WINSLOW 

PHONE,  NEWTON  WEST  630  AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


kELlIlEflS 


Vol.  XXXXV  No.  I 


OCTOBER,  1919 


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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE    4 

LITERARY 

Gay  Heart    h.    Brooks  6 

A  Humble  House A.  Beecher  8 

Boston  under  Military  Rule E.   Wheeler  9 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 9 

EDITORIAL    10 

LOCALS    11 

EXCHANGES     15 

PERSONAL   16 

JOKES   23 

SUPPLEMENT     24 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Towne 


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THE  NEW  ASSOCIATE  PRINCIPAL 


Among  the  changes  of  the  new  year  per- 
haps the  most  important  is  the  coming  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Towne.  Mr.  Towne  has 
the  position  of  Associate  Principal  and  will 
devote  his  energies  chiefly  to  the  administra- 
tive work  giving  his  first  attention  for  the 
present  to  the  care  of  the  AVoodland  Park 
School  and  the  Lasell  students  who  live  at 
Woodland  Park. 

Mr.  Towne  graduated  from  Colby  College, 
receiving  his  A.B.  Degree  with  the  class  of 
1900,  and  as  a  result  of  work  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Social  and  Political  Science  at  Brown 
University  under  Professor  J.  Q.  Dealev, 
uncle  of  our  Dallas,  Texas,  Dealey  girls,  he 
took  his  Master's  Degree  in  1916.  Mrs. 
Towne  is  also  a  graduate  of  Colby. 

Mr.  Towne  was  for  ten  years  Principal  of 
the  Pickering  Grammar  School,  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  five  years  Assistant  Superintendent 
of  Schools,  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  for 
the  past  year  and  one-half  in  charge  of  immi- 
grant education  in  the  Department  of  Uni- 
versity Extension  of  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation at  the  State  House,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  has  spoken  widely  throughout 
•our  state  and  in  a  number  of  other  states  upon 
the  subject  of  Americanization.  The  opening 
•of  the  Seminary  with  the  attendant  demands 
upon  his  time  made  it  necessary  for  Mr. 
Towne  to  decline  a  very  flattering  offer  of  a 
twelve  weeks'  lecture  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast 
this  fall.  He  is  giving  a  course  of  lectures  in 
Boston  University  on  the  teaching  of  English 
to  foreigners  and  is  carrying  on  similar  work 
in  Worcester  under  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation. He  is  joint  author  with  Mrs.  Clarence 
Kingsley  and  Mrs.  Isabelle  MacLean  of  a  text- 
book on  English  for  American  citizenship. 

In  a  recent  article  in  a  Boston  paper  on 
Colby  College,  Mr.  Towne's  name  appears  in 
a  list  of  "Forty  Prominent  Colby  Graduates" 


as     ''Massachusetts     educator,     specialist     in 
Americanization  work." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towne  have  for  the  past 
eight  years  been  in  charge  of  Camp  Teconnet 
for  Girls  which  is  located  on  the  island  of 
Teconnet,  in  China  Lake,  China,  Maine. 

Their  son,  Carroll  A.  Towne,  is  a  graduate 
of  Loomis  Institute  and  has  this  fall  entered 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College,  Amherst, 
Massachusetts. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towne  are  eminently 
fitted  by  education,  experience,  and  ideals  to 
become  a  vital  power  in  the  progress  of  the 
Seminary.  We  give  them  a  very  hearty  wel- 
come and  bespeak  for  them  a  cordial  greeting 
from  all  present  and  past  Lasell  students  and 
teachers. 

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AN   INDIAN  SUMMER  REVERIE 


"What  visionary  tints  the  year  puts  on 
Where   falling  leaves   falter  through  motion- 
less air, 
Or  numbly  cling  and  shiver  to  be  gone. 
How  shimmer  the  low  flats  and  pastures  bare 
As  with  her  nectar  Hebe  Autumn  fills 
The  bowl  between  me  and  those  distant  hills, 
And    smiles    and    shakes    abroad    her    misty, 
tremulous  hair." 

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GAY  HEART 


It  was  the  year  1922.  The  American  army 
had  been  demobilized,  with  the  exception,  of 
course,  of  those  who  had  signed  up  for  the 
regular  army.  The  country  had  resumed  its 
normal  pre-war  aspect,  and  again  it  was  un- 
usual to  see  a  khaki-clad  figure.  Social  life 
was  much  the  same  as  before  the  war,  but 
perhaps  a  little  less  obviously  useless. 

Of  the  returned  heroes  was' Philip  Gay,  a 
young  man  of  twenty-four,  who  had  risen 
from  the  ranks  to  a  captaincy  in  a  very  short 
time.  He  was  by  no  means  handsome,  but 
was  a  nice  clean-looking  fellow,  with  a  won- 
derful physique,  and  a  more  wonderful  smile, 
said  smile  being  always  very  much  in  evidence, 
and  winning  many  hearts  among  the  girls  in 
his  social  set  and  out  of  it.  Gay  had  the  repu- 
tation of  always  being  desperately  in  love  with 
some  girl  or  other,  but  never  for  a  very  long 
time.  This  reputation  had  given  him  the  name 
of  "Gay  Heart" — he  never  regretted  his  loves. 

Phil  claimed  it  was  in  France  that  he  first 
began  to  know  girls.  Also  he  asserted  that 
he  had  never  really  had  a  good  chance  to 
notice  them  before.  "Why,"  he  said,  "here 
you  meet  a  girl  at  a  club  dance,  say;  dance 
with  her  a  few  times,  and  if  she  is  a  good 
dancer,  perhaps  take  her  to  one  or  two — and 
then  after  it  all  you  don't  know  her  any  better 
than  when  you  were  first  introduced.  If  she 
is  true  to  type,  she  will  be,  well,  not  exactly 
brainless,  maybe,  but  what  brains  she  has  are 
only  bent  on  a  good  time  and  new  clothes.     I 


don't  believe  one  of  the  girls  of  my  acquain- 
tance ever  had  an  original  idea !"  From  which 
you  may  gather  that  he-  hadn't  much  use  for 
what  is  still  termed  the  weaker  sex. 

But  in  France — ah,  that  was  another  story !' 
In  France  everyone  was  doing  something  big, 
something  worth  while.  Those  who  were  able 
and  did  not  do  something  were  looked  on  as 
being  little  better  than  deserters,  a  kind  of 
negative  traitor,  so  to  say,  and  therefore  to. 
be  shunned.  And  the  girls — why  Gay  was. 
surprised  to  see  the  things  they  did.  Never 
did  they  find  anything  too  hard  to  try. 

His  first  love  was  French,  and  a  typical 
French  girl  she  was,  small,  dainty,  dark,  and 
altogether  flirtatious.  Gay  met  her  some  dis- 
tance back  of  the  firing  line  in  a  small  cottage 
that  had  been  turned  into  a  "young  cafe," 
as  he  expressed  it,  where  one  could  get  the 
most  delicious  home-cooked  meals.  It  was 
commonly  called  "Officer's  Mess,"  and  was 
very  exclusive,  as  such  a  small  place  would 
very  naturally  have  to  be.  Cicely  was  the 
head  waitress,  check  girl,  cashier,  and  general 
busy-body.  As  I  have  stated,  she  was  a  na- 
tural-born flirt,  and  loved  to  talk  with  those 
big  American  officers.  Best  of  all  she  loved 
to  get  them  to  tell  about  their  wonderful  coun- 
try and  its  great  cities.  In  her  broken  English 
with  her  soft  accent  she  would  put  in  a  ques- 
tion now  and  then  to  help  them  along  in  case 
they  hesitated.  And  she  tried — oh  so  hard 
to  understand  them.  Gay  was  infatuated  with 
her  from  the  very  first  and  plainly  showed  it. 
He  would  monopolize  her  every  time  he  came- 


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to  the  cottage.  After  a  while  his  appearance 
was  a  signal  for  "all  hands  off,"  and  Cicely 
would  smile  her  mysterious  little  smile,  and 
Gay  Heart  would  answer  with  his  heart- 
breaker.  This  little  affair  lasted  until  Gay's 
regiment  returned  to  the  front,  and  he  went 
away  happy  in  the  thought  that  after  the  war 
he  would  come  back  and  claim  Cicely  for 
his  own. 

But  in  the  next  rest-village  was  a  little 
family  of  stout-hearted  French  folk,  whose 
sole  support  was  a  very  practical  young  ma- 
demoiselle. Gay  saw  her  first  tilling  the  land, 
and  noticed  the  small  but  capable  hands,  the 
strong  lithe  young  body,  and  the  mop  of  curly 
black  hair.  He  fell  now  as  completely  in  love 
as  he  had  been  with  Cicely,  whom  he  promptly 
forgot.  When  his  fellow  officers  discovered 
the  flirtation,  and  reminded  him  of  Cicely, 
he  only  laughed  and  said  Cicely  was  such  a 
flirt  she  had  probably  forgotten  him.  And 
so  things  went  on,  a  girl  in  every  village,  and 
sometimes  more  than  one  in  the  same  village. 
So  it  was  that  he  became  known  as  "Gay 
Heart,"  the  heart-breaker  of  the  regiment. 
He  was  in  love  with  the  English  belle  who 
worked  in  an  army  post-office,  with  the  Irish 
colleen  who  was  playing  at  nursing;  and  with 
all  the  American  girls  he  saw,  numbering  about 
four  or  five.  But — in  all  these  cases  he  first 
won  his  charmer  with  that  contagious  and 
altogether  irresistible  smile. 

When  he  went  away  from  France,  he  left 

behind  him  many  a   memory   of   soft  words 

and  loving  glances — and  continued  his  career 

in  the  States.     As  he  had  been  in  the  midst 

i  of  all  the  fighting,  and  therefore  was  a  hero, 

I  besides  being  a  good  entertainer  and  exceed- 

i  ingly    good    company,    he    was    deluged    with 

i  social  attention.     It  was  the  beginning  of   a 

i  new  campaign  of  victories. 

He  fell  in  love  with  Helen,  a  tall,  slender 
I  blond,  not  at  all  vivacious,  and  very  much 
!  given  to  social  events ;  then  with  Ruth,  short, 
I  blond,  and  absolutely  adorable.  As  Gay  Heart 
:  said,  "She  was  just  made  to  be  loved."  Then 
i  came    Grace,   a   vivacious   brunette,   with   the 


high  coloring  of  a  gipsy  maid ;  Doris,  who  was 
tall  and  willowy,  and  Peggy  who  had  a  wealth 
of  auburn  curls,  and  a  milk-white  skin. — And 
finally  Jeanne.  But  here  he  struck  a  snag, 
for  she  did  not  immediately  fall  at  the  sight 
of  his  smile.  No  matter  how  much  he  smiled, 
talked  and  danced  he  could  not  break  through 
what  he  felt  to  be  an  invisible  wall  around 
her.  After  a"  while  he  gave  up,  and  tried  to 
interest  himself  in  Jane,  a  dear  little  doll  who 
was  new  to  the  set,  but  Jeanne  puzzled  him, 
and  back  he  came  to  try  again.  He  tried 
the  same  with  Polly,  with  Elinor,  and  Margar- 
ette,  but  always  returned  between  two  of  them 
to  the  fascinating  Jeanne.  Here  was  some- 
thing new.  Always  before  he  had  been  able 
to  conquer  and  then  satisfied  with  that  con- 
quest, to  go  away  and  start  a  new  one.  But 
this  was  different.  He  kept  arguing  with  him- 
self that  he  was  more  than  foolish  to  hang 
around  where  he  very  obviously  was  not  at  all 
expected  or  desired;  and  to  keep  inviting 
Jeanne  to  go  this  place  and  that,  when  only 
about  once  in  four  times  she  would  accept, — 
provided  the  date  was  far  enough  advanced. 
For  Jeanne  had  many  swains,  and  treated  them 
all  with  equal  indifference.  Perhaps  that  is 
why  she  had  so  many.  Finally  Gay,  piqued 
and  determined,  regularly  set  to  work  plan- 
ning a  compaign,  in  true  military  style.  He 
called  up  Jeanne,  said  he  had  tickets  for  a 
certain  play  she  had  expressed  a  desire  to  see, 
and  laughingly  so  managed  the  conservation 
that  without  having  accepted,  she  nevertheless 
seemed  to  have  done  so.  Then  he  found  out 
guardedly  when  she  would  be  free,  and  spoke 
for  every  one  of  those  free  times,  and  when 
his  opportunity  came,  he  would  "do  his  durned- 
est,"  as  he  expressed  it  to  himself,  to  give  her 
a  good  time.  He  called  her  up  at  least  once 
a  day — "so  she  won't  have  a  chance  to  forget 
me."  He  consulted  her  about  his  career,  a 
very  successful  one  as  architect,  and  thus  paid 
her  a  very  high  compliment,  beside  drawing 
out  her  ideas.  After  he  had  kept  this  up  for 
some  time,  Jeanne  began  to  thaw  a  little,  and 
made   a    few   advances.      Gay    was    quick    to 


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notice  this,  and  follow  up  his  advantage.  At 
last  he  found  courage  to  propose.  She 
laughed,  and  flatly  refused  him  ;  but  he  was  not 
daunted.  In  the  army  you  don't  give  up  if 
you  strike  a  barrier.  So  he  redoubled  his 
efforts,  and  was  gayer  than  ever.  Not  two 
weeks  .later  he  proposed  a  second  time.  Jeanne 
kept  him  in  an  agony  of  suspense  for  two 
days  and  then  refused  him  again.  "Ah," 
thought  Gay,  "my  heart  tells  me  I  am  coming 
along.     The  third  time  never  fails." 

He  allowed  four  whole  days  to  elapse  before 
again  placing  his  heart,  hand  and  fortune  at 
Jeanne's  disposal.  And  now  Jeanne  hesitated 
scarcely  a  second  before  she  said  the  word  that 
made  him  the  happiest  man  in  the  world. 
From  that  time  forth,  Gay  Heart  was  gayer 
than  ever  before,  but  never  strayed  away  from 
the  girl  who  bore  his  name  with  him. 

H.  Brooks. 


A  HUMBLE  HOME 


Will  you  take  a  ride  with  me  this  morning 
and  visit  the  home  of  one  of  the  Chilean 
peonesf  The  road,  though  wide,  is  not  very 
good.  On  one  side  .is  a  canal,  bordered  by 
big  poplar  trees ;  on  the  other,  are  the  cottages 
of  the  peones — whitewashed  abode  houses 
with  tile  roofs.  Each  has  a  field  of  about  two 
acres  on  one  side;  in  it  are  planted  vegetables 
familiar  to  you,  such  as  potatoes,  corn,  beans, 
and  peas.  In  front  of  the  houses  there  is 
usually  a  garden  and  big  shady  trees.  Let 
us  enter  one  of  these  dwellings. 

On  coming  in  at  the  front  door,  we  find 
ourselves  in  a  small,  rather  dark  room.  The 
walls  had  once  been  whitewashed  but  now 
they  are  black  from  the  smoke  pouring  out 
of  the  stove  which  is  to  be  seen  in  one  corner. 
In  the  center  of  the  room  is  a  dirty  looking 
wooden  table  partly  covered  with  a  coarse 
white  cloth.  Knives  and  forks  are  piled  at 
set  places ;  the  cruet  stand  and  one  or  two  big 
round  loaves  show  us  that  the  table  is  set 
ready  for  a  meal.  On  the  right  hand  side  of 
the  room  is  a  bed  and  some  mattresses.  The 
walls  are  covered  with  prints  cut  from  maga- 


zines and  newspapers.     Over  the  bed  hangs 
a  large  picture  of  the  Madonna. 

Directly  opposite  the  door  through  which 
we  have  entered  is  another  one,  leading  into 
the  patio,  or  back-yard.  This  is  a  big  shady 
place  with  trees  and  vines  creeping  about,  thus 
making  a  splendid  roof,  delightful  both  to  the 
eye  and  taste ;  for  it  is  not  only  covered  with 
green  leaves  but  also  has  clusters  of  grapes 
hanging  down.  These  look  very  refreshing 
in  the  hot  afternoon. 

In  the  shadiest  corner  of  the  patio  we  see 
the  mistress  of  the  house  washing  clothes  in 
an  odd-shaped  wooden  tub  on  the  shelf  of 
which  many  bright  colored  garments  are  piled. 
Five  children  are  playing  about  the  place.  In 
a  cot,  made  out  of  a  plain  wooden  box  hang- 
ing from  the  branch  of  a  tree,  lies  a  baby, 
quietly  sleeping  in  spite  of  the  flies  walking 
all  over  it.  Chickens,  pigs  and  other  domestic 
animals, — the  dogs  not  being  excepted — are 
also  much  at  home  here.  The  chickens  often 
stroll  into  the  house  and  peck  about  for 
crumbs.  The  pigs  now  and  then  take  a  peep 
in  and  the  cat  is  generally  to  be  found  under 
the  stove.  The  bed  is  the  pet  chicken's  nest. 
Look  sharply,  you  will  see  one  egg  on  it. 

The  wife  has  now  finished  the  washing  and 
has  come  into  the  house  to  prepare  a  bountiful 
meal,  for  though  the  peasants  do  not  believe 
in  using  their  hard  earned  money  on  such 
trifles  as  clothes, — their  children  being  little 
less  than  naked — they  all  like  to  dine  well. 
The  meal,  in  fact,  generally  consists  of  about 
four  courses  in  which  nearly  always  is  in- 
cluded the  national  plate  of  beans  prepared 
with  corn.  The  bottle  of  chicha  is  also  sel- 
dom missing.  This  is  a  drink  made  of  boiled 
grape  juice  which  is  left  to  ferment.  When 
ready  it  is  of  a  light  brown  colour  and  takes 
the  place  of  wine,  for  it  is  often  home  made 
and  cheap. 

Yes,  the  round  loaves,  the  chicha  and  the 
national  dish  are  to  make  up  part  of  the  fare; 
but,  although  we  are  urged  to  share  the  meal, 
we  must  ride  on  to  other  homes  more  com- 
fortable but  not  more  hospitable. 

A.  Beeche. 


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Auto  trucks  filled  with  grim  khaki  figures 
honked  noisily  through  the  crowded  streets 
and  called  back  to  life  the  numerous  passers- 
by  who  had  paused  to  gaze  at  some  unusual 
spectacle.  Silent  yet  determined  soldiers, 
with  fixed  bayonets  and  loaded  riot-guns,  pa- 
trolled the  busy  streets.  At  every  corner 
could  be  seen  the  trench  helmets  and  broad 
shoulders  of  some  others  who  were  trying 
to  aid  old  man  Traffic.  Impatient  army  horses 
and  their  respective  riders  galloped  along  the 
highways — vainly  trying  to  call  to  account  the 
rather  reckless  gait  of  young  man  Speed. 
Everything — everywhere — was  changed  from 
its  aspect  of  staid  dignity  to  one  of  war-like 
alertness. 

Shoppers  moved  quickly  along  the  side- 
walks— never  stopping,  as  of  old,  to  gaze  into 
an  attractive  store  window,  or,  to  gossip  with 
friends.  No  indeed !  They  preferred  moving 
to  facing  the  business  end  of  a  riot  gun  or  a 
bayonet.  Then,  too,  many  of  the  once  beauti- 
ful store  windows  were  broken  or  shattered, 
while  a  few  of  the  wax  models  were  out  on 
a  tour  of  Boston  with  some  unknown  indivi- 
dual. Board  protections  or  steel  gratings,  in 
front  of  the  plate-glass  windows  of  most  of 
the  larger  stores,  stood  like  huge,  invincible 
sentinels.  Great  signs  with  letters  a  foot  in 
size  protested,  often  humorously,  against  the 
wrongs  done  to  the  innocent  articles  of  apparel 
or  decoration  within. 

Practically  all  the  rogues'  gallery  flocked 
to  Boston  and  vicinity  for  a  game  of  craps  or 
a  bag  of  loot.  Affairs  were  beginning  to  look 
rather  threatening  but  martial  law  stepped  in 
and  soon  established  order.  Before  long  we 
trust  Boston  will  again  conduct  herself  as 
befits  the  city  of  culture. 

E.  Wheeler. 


Oh !  an  autumn  bough  on  an  autumn  day 
Is  only  matched  in  splendor, 
By  a  springy  branch  of  pink  and  white 
That  peeps   thro'   its   green   leaves   tender. 

E.  Staats. 


A  rainy  morning  greeted  us  on  September 
23d,  but  the  consequent  gloom  was  soon  for- 
gotten when  the  halls  were  filled  with  the 
smiling  faces  and  happy  laughter  of  little 
children.  Twenty-one  of  the  twenty-seven 
children  who  were  with  us  last  year  have  re- 
turned and  twenty-nine  new  pupils  swell  our 
enrollment  to  fifty. 

One  of  the  new  features  is  the  kindergarten 
under  the  direction  of  Miss  Jennie  M.  Nichols. 
These  children  come  to  us  for  morning  work 
only.  Grades  I  to  III  have  two  sessions — 
closing  at  3  p.m.  The  playground  work  is 
under  the  direction  of  Miss  Boynton.  Al- 
ready two  basket  ball  teams  have  been  formed. 

We  all  wish  to  extend  greetings  and  wel- 
come to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towne.  Though  all 
the  Seminary  may  lay  claim  to  them  we  feel 
as  if  they  are  rather  specially  our  own.  Mr. 
Towne  has  supervision  of  Woodland  Park 
and  Mrs.  Towne  is  on  our  teaching  staff. 

To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  Marjorie 
our  hearts  have  gone  out  during  Marjorie's 
long  and  serious  illness.  Now  that  she  is 
better  we  are  all  as  one  in  our  rejoicings. 

Among  our  new  teachers  are : 

Miss  Clare  Norton,  who  has  charge  of  the 
2nd,  3rd  and  4th  grades. 

Miss  Flora  Boynton,  Physical  Training  and 
outdoor  games. 

Mrs.  C.  F.  Towne,  Arithmetic  and  Geog- 
raphy in  the  7th  and  8th  grades. 

Miss  Ida  Bunting,  Pianoforte. 

Miss  Beatrice  Knight,  Pianoforte. 

Miss  Harriet  F.  Huson  is  teaching  in  St. 
Margaret's  School,  Waterbury,   Connecticut. 

Miss  Caroline  F.  Chase  has  been  appointed 
Supervisor  of  Music  in  the  Augusta,  Maine, 
schools. 

Woodland  Park  feels  more  than  ever  a  part 
of  Lasell  Seminary  this  year.  Over  our 
heads  on  the  third  and  fourth  floors  are  sev- 
enty Seminary  girls  with  four  teachers.  To- 
gether we  fill  the  main  dining-room.  In  fact, 
together  we  fill  every  nook  and  corner  of  the 
house. 


"The   autumn-time  has   come, 
On  woods  that  dream  of  bloom, 
And  over  purpling  vines, 
The  low  sun  fainter  shines. 
The  aster-flower  is   falling, 
The  hazel's  gold  is  paling; 
Yet  overhead  more  near 
The  eternal  stars  appear." 


WELCOME! 


Greetings  and  best  wishes  to  our  new  girls, 
to  our  teachers  and  to  our  absent  but  ever- 
thought-of  class  of  '19.  May  this  year  mean 
much  to  all  of  us.  May  we  catch  a  community 
spirit  and  learn  to  live  up  to  the  motto  which 
has  been  left  for  us — "Carry  On."  Let  us 
make  this  year  successful  by  putting  our  hearts 
into  our  work  and  into  our  play. 

This  beautiful  fall  weather  affords  an  op- 
portunity for  every  girl  to  take  her  part  in 
the  sports  that  Lasell  offers.  Already,  canoe- 
ing parties  are  being  formed ;  tennis  courts 
are  filled ;  and  baseball  teams  are  practising 
for  the  games  coming  later  on.  The  many 
attractive  places  about  Auburndale  induce  the 
girls  to  take  long,  healthful  walks,  and,  as 
usual,  horse  back  riding  is  planned  for  those 
who    enjoy    this    delightful    exercise.      Don't 


miss  some  of  these  wholesome  activities. 
Don't  leave  the  entire  task  of  the  Leaves  to 
the  staff,  it's  your  paper  and  needs  your  co- 
operation and  support.  Any  suggestions  for 
improvement  will  be  most  acceptable.  Do  not 
hesitate  to  pass  in  stories,  verses,  jokes  or  snap- 
shots which  you  think  will  help  to  make  the 
paper  interesting. 

This  year  is  surely  a  banner  year  for  Lasell. 
Our  family  has  increased  from  two  hundred 
to  nearly  three  hundred  girls.  Part  of  Wood- 
land Park  is  being  used  as  a  Lasell  dormitory 
for  over  sixty  of  the  new  girls.  Both  senior 
houses  are  full  to  overflowing  and  this  year's 
class  promises  to  be  one  of  the  largest  ever 
graduated.  With  this  increase  in  numbers, 
many  changes  have  had  to  be  made.  Our 
chapel  is  no  longer  a  chapel ;  for  huge  parti- 
tions divide  it  into  three  class  rooms.  Chapel 
is  being  held  in  the  gymnasium  and  gym  classes 
in  the  Gardner  barn.  One  would  never  recog- 
nize the  second  floor  of  old  Carter  Hall,  for 
it  has  been  transformed  from  attractive  bou- 
doirs into  business-like  recitation  rooriis.  No 
longer  do  we  have  to  rush  for  the  2:21  train 
Saturday,  for  Bible  comes  on  Monday,  and 
Saturday  afternoon  is  entirely  at  our  disposal. 
In  spite  of  these  changes  we  find  our  school 
the  same  old  Lasell ;  so  let  us  start  our  year's 
work  with  the  same  old  Lasell  spirit. 


The  dining-room  and  later  the  gymnasium 
were  packed  with  merry  girls  on  the  opening 
night  of  school,  Sept.  24.  Some  of  the  gradu- 
ates helped  to  make  things  lively  by  their 
presence ;  the  old  girls  seemed  particularly 
happy  to  be  back;  and  the  new  girls  were  noft 
allowed  to  feel  neglected.  An  orchestra  fur- 
nished music  at  both  the  dinner  and  the  dance. 

On  Friday  night,  Sept.  26,  the  Seniors  sere- 
naded the  new  girls  in  the  various  houses. 
They  started  at  Woodland  Park,  then  went  to 
Bragdon,  Carter,  Bancroft,  Clark,  Berkeley 
and  Hawthorne  respectively,  giving  at  each 
house  a  cheer  and  a  song.  The  new  girls  re- 
sponded well  and  cheered  the  upper  classmen 
right  heartily. 

On  Saturday  evening,  Sept.  27,  the  Mission- 
ary and  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  enter- 
tained the  new  girls  with  a  frolic  in  the  gym- 
nasium. The  entertainment  consisted  of  take- 
offs  on  dress  regulations  at  Lasell.  A  dress- 
suit-case  race  between  two  new  girls  afforded 
much  amusement.  After  this  about  twenty 
new  girls  went  upon  the  platform  and  old 
girls  were  called  upon  to  tell  their  names. 
Then  as  many  old  girls  took  their  places  and 
the  new  girls  had  a  chance  to  show  their 
knowledge.  After  this  entertainment  an  in- 
formal dance  followed  which  was  much  en- 
joyed by  all. 


Friday  morning,  Oct.  3,  the  officers  of  the 
class  of  1920  were  announced  in  the  chapel. 
Mrs.  Martin  commenced  the  exercises  by  say- 
ing "Some  good  news  is  surely  coming." 
Thereupon  the  Senior  Class  rushed  to  the 
front  of  the  room  and  gave  the  class  yell. 
This  was  followed  by  the  singing  of  a  song 
in  which  the  class  officers  were  announced. 
As  each  name  was  sung  the  class  officers 
marched  down  the  aisle.  They  appeared  as 
follows,  President,  Katherine  Rice ;  Vice 
President,  Anna  Crane ;  Secretary,  Eleanor 
Thompson  ;  Treasurer,  Frances  Heath  ;  Cheer 
Leader,  Josephine  Florence ;  and  Song  Lead- 
er. Helen  Balcom.  Congratulations  to  the 
officers  and  to  the  class ! 

Thursday  evening,  Oct.  2,  Dr.  Leon  Vincent 
gave  his  lecture  on  "Thoreau  and  His  Wooden 
Inkstand."  He  spoke  of  the  fact  that  Thoreau 
'was  often  misunderstood  and  misjudged  and 
said  that,  personally,  he  was  glad  to  take  every 
opportunity  to  tell  the  story  of  this  writer; 
for  Thoreau  wrote  not  for  professional  pur- 
poses but  because  he  really  had  ideas  to  ex- 
press. Dr.  Vincent  then  gave  an  account  of 
Thoreau's  life  and  writings,  especially  dwell- 
ing on  his  experiences  at  Walden.  A  friend 
truly  said  of  Thoreau,  "The  better  you  know 
him,  the  more  you  enjoy  him." 

The    officers    of    the    Athletic    Association 


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spent  their  spare  time  for  several  days  in 
booming  their  organization.  The  effort  was 
worth  while,  however,  for  the  old  girls  were 
prompt  to  renew  membership  and  the  majority 
of  the  new  girls  hovered  round  the  table  to 
sign  their  names.  With  so  large  an  enroll- 
ment this  year,  there  should  be  material  for 
rival  teams  in  basket  ball  and  other  sports 
among  our  own  ranks. 

Thursday  afternoon,  Oct.  9,  Dr.  Vincent 
gave  his  second  lecture,  the  subject  of  which 
was  "Emerson."  He  traced  briefly  the  history 
of  the  Emerson  family  and  the  career  of 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  as  teacher,  preacher 
and  lecturer.  His  work  as  a  writer  was  done 
late  in  life  when  he  welded  together  his  essays 
from  his  "thought  book"  and  from  the  material 
of  his  lectures.  Dr.  Vincent  regards  Emer- 
son as  the  most  interesting  man  of  his  times.1 
He  told  many  anecdotes,  also,  to  illustrate 
the  love  and  esteem  with  which  this  gentle 
philosopher  was  regarded  as  a  man. 

The  first  Christian  Endeavor  meeting  of  the 
year  was  held  on  Friday  evening,  Oct.  3.  It 
was  led  by  the  president,  Marion  Eaton.  She 
called  on  an  old  and  a  new  girl  to  tell  what 
they  thought  of  Christian  Endeavor.  She, 
herself,  read  two  very  fitting  poems.  A  large 
number  of  students  were  present  and  received 
help  and  inspiration  from  this  service. 

The  Vesper  Service  on  Oct.  5  was  led  by 
The  Rev.  Edward  T.  Sullivan  of  Newton 
Centre.  His  talk  dealt  with  personality.  He 
told  us  that  in  our  relations  with  other  people 


we  should  maintain  the  spirit  of  peace.  He 
also  gave  us  some  helpful  rules  by  which  our 
wills  could  be  brought  under  our  control.  This 
service  proved  of  much  interest  to  the  student 
body. 

One  of  the  first  social  functions  of  the  year 
was  the  "Old  Girls'  Dance  to  the  New."  This 
affair,  which  was  held  at  Woodland  Park, 
proved  to  be  a  great  success.  Excellent  music 
by  a  three  piece  orchestra  carried  out  a  pro- 
gram of  twelve  dances. 

On  Friday  evening,  October  tenth,  the  sec- 
ond meeting  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  was 
held.  This  was  led  by  Katherine  Rice.  She 
took  for  her  subject  the  motto  of  the  class 
of  nineteen  nineteen,  "Carry  On."  She  told 
us  that  it  wasn't  the  big  things  that  count  in 
the  end,  but  the  little  things  that  we  do  from 
day  to  day.  She  urged  us  all  to  find  good 
things  in  people  and  to  "carry  on"  in  the  same 
spirit  as  the  class  of  1919. 


SCHOOL  ROSTER 


Abrams,  Thirza  J.,  Orange,  N.  J. 
Ackerman,  Ruth  H.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Adams,   Frances  V.,   Castleton,   Vt. 
Andrews,  Cordelia  G.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 
Bailey,  Dorothy  S.,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
Balch,  Dorothy  H.,  Marshalltown,  Iowa. 
Balcom,  Helen  G.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Ballentine,  A.  Lenore,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 
Barker,  Beatrice,  Boston,  Mass. 
Barkman,  Leilya  K.,  Morristown,  N.  J. 
Barton,  Addie  L.,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
Bass,  F.  Elaine,  Bangor,  Maine. 
Bassett,   Luella  E.  A.,  Southville,  Mass. 
Beeche,  Aida  F.,  Brookline,  Mass. 
Belden,  Lina  K.,  Bradstreet,  Mass. 
Belle  Isle,  Celina  M.,  Beacon,  N.  Y. 
Benedix,  Cora  H.,  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Benson,  Caroline  R.,  Amesbury,  Mass. 
Berkson,  Helene  M.,  Tuckahoe,  N.  Y. 
Blanchard,  Emily  L.,  Nutley,  N.  J. 
Bliven,  Marian  A.,  Norwich,  Conn. 
Boadway,  Edith  M.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 
Bodwell,  Marion,   Sanford,  Me. 
Bregman,  Sylvia  J.,  Chicago,  111. 
Brekke,  Hilda,  Bergen,  Norway. 
Brevoort,  Dorothy  M.,  Vincennes,  Ind. 
Britton,   Isabel,  Burlington,  Vt. 
Brockett,  Minnie  B.  K.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


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Brooks;,  Carolyn,  Gardner,  Mass. 

Brooks,  Helen  H.,  Gardner,  Mass. 

Brown,  Doris  E.,  Lowell,  Mass. 

Brown,  Fannye  L.,  Vicksburg,  Miss. 

Brown,  Marian  A.,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

Burnet,  Gladys  MacC.,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Burnham,  Dorothy  I.,  Newtonville,  Mass. 

Butler,  Helen  L.,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Butler,  H.  Pauline,  Haverhill,  Mass. 

Cabrera,  Maria  L.,  Mexico  City,  Mexico. 

Cameron,   Margaret  G,   Ottawa,  Ontario. 

Campbell,  Doris  E.,  So.  Bend,  Ind. 

Carey,  Helen  E.,  Harbor  Springs,  Mich. 

Carleton,  Elizabeth,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Carpenter,  Mildred  K.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Carr,  Virginia  L.,  Lynn,  Mass. 

Carter,  Geraldine,   Reading,  Mass. 

Carter,  Velma  W.,  Needham  Heights,  Mass. 

Chandler,  Carolyn  N.,  East  Bridgewater,  Mass. 

Chandler,  Mildred,  New  Gloucester,  Me. 

Clark,  Frances,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Cole,  Bernice  H,  Brewer,  Me. 

Collins,  Ruth  M.,  Middlebury,  Vt. 

Comley,  A.  Violet,  Burlington,  Mass. 

Conger,  Helen,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Conklin,  Leonora  F.,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Cook,  Dorothy  M.,  Allston,  Mass. 

Coons.  Helen  L.,   Culver,  Ind. 

Corin,  Blanche  A.,  Jamaica,  N.  Y. 

Crane,  Anna  E.,  Tippecanoe  City,  O. 

Crane,  Sarah  F.,  Burlington,  Vt. 

Crawford,  Doris  M.,  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 

Cresse,  Helen  M.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Crooks,  Elizabeth  F.,  Brockton,   Mass. 

Crowell,  Elsie  M.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Culver,  Marion  H,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

Cunningham,  Dorothy,  Denver,   Colo. 

Curtis,  May  L.,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Dailey,  Margaret  L.,  Augusta,  Me. 

Davidson,  Sue,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Davis,  Marian,   Columbus,  Ohio. 

Davis,  Ruth  L.,  Sanford,  Me.     . 

Dennie,  Dorothy,   Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

Densmore,  Pearl  E.,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

Disher,  Ruth  E.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Doane,  Lilian  E.,  Montreal,  Que. 

Dodge,  Ada,  Houston,  Texas. 

Drew,  Dorothy  H,  Newport,  Vt. 

Droege,  Dorothea  L.,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y. 

Dyer,  Mary  L.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Earl,  Helen,  Melrose  Highlands,  Mass. 

Eastman.  Olive  H,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Eaton,  Marion  F.,  Youngstown,  N.  Y. 

Edwards,  Dorothy  R.,  Maiden,  Mass. 

Eldredge,  Alletta  E.,  Wollaston,  Mass. 

Elliot,  Mabel  A.,  St.  Andrews,  N.  B. 

Ely,  Dorothy,  Newark,  N.  J. 


Espy,  Suzita,  Oysterville,  Wash. 
Ficks,  Estelle,  New  York  City. 
Ficks,  Helen,  New  York  City. 
Files,  Helen  L.,  Brunswick,  Me. 
Fish,  Isabel  M.,  Merrimacport,  Mass. 
Fitch,  Mary  E.,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 
Florence,  M.  Josephine,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Flynn,  Eileen  M.,  Lawrence,  Mass. 
Fontaine,  Lillian  M.,  Fall  River,  Mass. 
Foran,  Mary  A'.,  West  Newton,  Mass. 
Forgie,  Katherine  L.,   Dorchester,  Mass. 
Foster,  Katherine  M.,   Ottumwa,   la. 
Foster,  Matilda  G,  Carnegie,  Pa. 
Freeman,  Mildred,  Winthrop,  Mass. 
French,  Evelyn  E.,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 
Frolich,  Carin,  Christiana,  Norway. 
Fulton,  Leota  M.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Furbush,  Louise,  Brighton,  Mass. 
Galvin,   Mary  A.,   Centralia,  Wash. 
Geeson,  Edith  M.,  Putnam,  Conn. 
Geist,  Jeannette  E.,  Toledo,  O. 
Gifford,  Florence  M.,  Green  Bay,  Wis. 
Gilchrist,  Jean,  El  Paso,  Tex. 
Gilmore,  Marjorie  M.,  Lowell,  Mass. 
Grant,  Lillian  G,  Manchester,  Conn. 
Greely,  Lydia  A.,  Needham,  Mass. 
Greene,  Florence  E.,  Dallas,  Tex. 
Greenwood,  Mary  E.,  Chester,  Vt. 
Griffin,  Freda  B.,  No.  Bloomfield,  Conn. 
Griggs,  Anne,   Hartford,  Conn. 
Grimes,  Alice  E.,  Sterling,  111. 
Gruhn,  Rosalie  H.,  New  York  City. 
Hammond,   Priscilla,   Concord,  N.  H. 
Hannah,  Janet  MacD.,  Fitchburg,  Mass. 
Harding,  Florence  F.,  Mansfield,  Mass. 
Harding,  Mabel  F.,  Lynnfield,  Mass. 
Hardy,  Marguerite  J.,  Huntington,  Mass. 
Harrington,  Ruth,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Harris,  Mary  E.,  Denver,   Colo. 
Hawks,  Harriet  S.,  Greenfield,  Mass. 
Hayden,  Ruth  D.,  Ventnor  City,  N.  J. 
Hayes,  Marjorie  B.,  Brighton,  Mass. 
Hayward,  Dorothy,  Westboro,  Mass. 
Heath,  Frances,  Concord,  N.  H. 
Herman,  Helene  M.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Hersum,   Evelyn,   Cambridge,   Mass. 
Hills,  Ruth,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 
Hollidge,  Mildred,  East  Milton,  Mass. 
Hubbard,  Mary  E.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
Hudson,  Helen  L.,  Duluth,  Minn. 
Hurley,  Lorraine  C,  Marlboro,  Mass. 
Hussey,  Marjorie  V.,  Augusta,  Me. 
Hussey,  Virginia  B.,  Norridgewock,  Me. 
Hutton,  Josephine  E.,  Denver,  Colorado. 
Ingraham,  Priscilla,  Camden,  Me. 
Jackson,  Louise,  Fall  River,  Mass. 
Jackson,  Mary  A.,  Toledo,  O. 


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Jacobs,  Helen  G.,  Attleboro,  Mass. 

James,   Muriel  D.,   Summit,   N.   J. 

Jenks,  Ruth  A.,  Ware,  Mass. 

Johnson,  Helen,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Johnson,   Helen   L.,    Bridgeport,    Conn. 

Johnson,  Ruth  E.,  Muscatine,   la. 

Kaiser,  Marceline  L.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Keasor,  Melba  T.,  Laconia,  N.  H. 

Kelly,  Louise  G.,  Haverhill,  Mass. 

Keniston,  H.  Gladys,  Sacramento,  Cal. 

Kent,  Rosamond  K,  Clifton  Hgts.,  Pa. 

Ketcham,  May  G.,  Denver,  Colo. 

King,  Mary  I.,  Haverhill,  Mass. 

Kirkpatrick,  Helen  L.,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Knight,  Eleanor  L.,  Wollaston,  Mass. 

Knight,  Mildred  A.,  Portland,  Me. 

Kuhn,  Florence,  Champaign,  111. 

Ladd,  Kathryn,  Yarmouth  No.,  Nova  Scotia. 

Lewis,  Dorothy  L.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Libbey,  Mary  E.,  So.  Berwick,  Me. 

Lindsay,   Cassie  V.,   Yarmouth,   Me. 

Linnehan,  Helen  M.,  South  Weymouth,  Mass. 

Longley,  Ruth  C,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Loomis,  Margaret  V.,  Chicago,  111. 

Louis,  Helen  R.,  Fall  River,  Mass. 

Louis,  Rosalie  B.,  Danville,  111. 

Lucas,  Gladys  V.,  Johnstown,  N.  Y. 

Lyon,  Bernice  S.,  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

McCombs,  Alice  R.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

McFarland,  Beulah,  Johnson,  Vt. 

McNab,  Helen  P.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

MacDonald,  Kathleen   V.,   Guanajuato,  Mex. 

Madden,  Evelyn  R.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Manville.   Elizabeth,  Ansonia,   Conn. 

Mann,  Florence  M.,  Melrose  Highlands,  Mass. 

Marr,  Mildred,  Waban,  Mass. 

Marr,  Virginia,  Waban,  Mass. 

Melanson,  Jessie  L.,  Swampscott,  Mass. 

Merchant,  Harriet  F.,  Monson,   Mass. 

Merritt,  Gertrude  M.,  Lockport,  N.  Y. 

Miller,  Laura  E.,  Orange.  N.  J. 

Mitchell,  E.  Lucile,  Montpelier,  Vt. 

Moore,  Maurine,  Chicago,  111. 

Morgan,  Doris  F.,  Beverly,  Mass. 

Morgan,  F.  Gladys,  Beverly,  Mass. 

Morrison,  Hazel,  Melrose,  Mass. 

Morrison,  Nancy  V.,  Toronto,  Can. 

Moss.  E.   Helen,  Richmond  Hill.   N.  Y. 

Murchison,  Catherine,  Buenos  Aires,  Arg. 

Murchison,  Emma  M.,  Buenos  Aires,  Arg. 

Murray,  Esther,  Caldwell,  N.  J. 

Newhall,  Natalie  C,  Assonet,  Mass. 

Oberempt,  Gertrude  G,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

O'Brien,  Helen  B.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Ordway.  Ruth  H.,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Orr,  Augusta  Louise,  Winchendon,  Mass. 

Pape,  Alice  E.,  Cincinnati,  O. 


Parker,  Charlotte,  Maiden,  Mass. 
Patten,  Mildred  A.  H,  Rockville   Centre,  L.  I. 
Perkins,  Doris  E.,  Lebanon,  Ind. 
Perkins,  Eunice  E.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 
Perley,  Emma  W.,  Lowell,  Mass. 
Perley,  Margaret  C,  Lowell,  Mass. 
Perry,  Lois  M.,  Fort  Fairfield,  Me. 
Phelps,  Bertha  M.,  Ayer,  Mass. 
Phillips,  Dorothy,  Watertown,   N.   Y. 
Phipps,  Mary  A:,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Prince,   Helen,  Madison,  Me. 
Prindle,  Helen  B.,  Williamstown,  Mass. 
Pringle,  Margaret  D.,   Marengo,  111. 
Rankin,  Julia  A.,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 
•  Rathbone,  Gladys  Y.,  Norwich,  Conn. 
Rawlings,  Ruth  M.,  El  Paso,  Texas. 
Reichel,  Grace  M.,  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Reiff,  Charlotte  R.,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 
Reiff,  Erica  A.,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 
Rhoades,  Marjorie  D.,  Brockton,  Mass. 
Rice,  Katherine,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Roberts,  Eleanor,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 
Robinson,   Elisabeth  H.,   Stonington,   Conn. 

Rogers,   Constance  E..  Elmhurst,  L.  I. 
Rogers,  Doris  E.,  Lynn,  Mass. 
Russell,  Elizabeth,  Pasadena,  Cal. 
Russell,  Julia,  Dallas,  Texas. 

Sanborn,  Doris  M.,  Lowell,  Mass. 

Sanborn,  Helen,  Springvale,  Me. 

Sanford,  Helen  A.,  Seymour,  Conn. 

Scaling,  Marguerite  W.,  Ft.  Worth.  Texas. 

Schervee,  Velleda  C,  Shrewsbury,  Mass. 

Schumaker,  Gertrude  C,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Schweitzer,  Herma  L.,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Sheip,  Florence  M.,  Mobile,  Ala. 

Shidler,  Genevieve  M.,  South  Bend,  Ind. 

Shove,  Dorothy  A.,  Marshalltown,   la. 

Simmers,  Frances  I.,  East  Liverpool,  O. 

Slocum,  Carol  E.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Smith,  Feme  M.,  Caribou,  Me. 

Smith,  Marion  E.,  West  Newton.  Mass. 

Smith,  Ruth  A.,  Chelmsford,  Mass. 

Smith,  R.  Madaline,  Brighton,  Mass. 

Spofford,  Ruth  G,  Bradford,  Mass. 

Sprague,  Dorothy,  Wollaston,  Mass. 

Staats,  Edna  F.,  Ft.  Worth,  Texas. 

Stephens,  Elizabeth  D.,  Rumford,  Me. 

Stevens,  Marion  A.,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

Stewart,  Margaret,  Webster,  Mass. 

Story,  Esther  H.,  Rockport,  Mass. 

Strebeigh,  Barbara,  New  York  City. 

Strebeigh,  Blanche,  New  York  City. 

Street,  Helen  M„  East  Haven,  Conn. 

Strople,  Gladys  E.,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Sullivan,   Elizabeth   E.,   Willimantic,   Conn. 

Sullivan,  Margaret  G,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Sullivan,  F.  Viola,  Holyoke,  Mass. 


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Sutherland,  Madeleine  R.,  Athol,  Mass. 

Sweney,  Helene  L.,  Winthrop  Highlands,  Mass. 

Tait,  Maude  I.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Temple,  Florence,  Denver,  Colo. 

Tenny,  Lois  B.,  Cleveland,  O. 

Thompson,  A.  Eleanor,  Amenia,  N.  Y. 

Tillinghast,  Clarice  H.,  Sag  Harbor,  N.  Y. 

Tirrell,  Marion,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

Tisdale,  Ouida,  Winthrop,  Mass. 

Tucker,   Cecile,   Brookline,   Mass. 

Van  Fleet,  Katherine,  Toledo,  O. 

Varney,  Vivian,  Ansley,  Neb. 

Vernon,  Mabel,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. 

Vincent,   Celeste  G.,   New   Orleans,  La. 

Walbridge,  Anne,  Russell,  Kansas. 

Walter,  Virginia,  Cincinnati,  O. 

Warner,  Dorothy  F.,  Hatfield,  Mass. 

Warner,  Grace  E.,  Hartford,   Conn. 

Weidman,  Marion  T.,  Rockport,  Me. 

Weil,  Esther  A.,   Chicago,  111. 

West,  Nell  B,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Westervelt,  Helene  E.,  South  Bend,  Ind. 

Westphal,  Marian,  Joliet,  111. 

Weymouth,  Roma  H.,  North  Reading,  Mass. 

Wheeler,  F.  Eleanor,  Brookline,  Mass. 

White,  Doris,  South  Yarmouth,  Mass. 

Whitehead,  Barbara,  Medford,  Mass. 

Whitmarsh,  Alberta  B.,  Rochester,  Vt. 

"Whitney,  Doris  G,  Leominster,  Mass. 

Wild,  Sarah  P.,  Sycamore,  111. 

Wilder,  Kathryn  V.,  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Williams,  F.  Ruth,  Radersburg,  Mont. 

Williams,   Gladys  G.,  Taunton,  Mass. 

Williams,  Marion  B.,  Edgewood,  R.  I. 

Wilson,  Rena  V.,  Boston,  Mass. 

"Wright,  Jessie  L.,  Maiden,  Mass. 

Wyman,  Katherine  B.,  Augusta,  Me. 


WOODLAND  PARK 


Bancroft,  Marjorie,  Auburn  dale. 

Best,  Kathleen,   Newton  Centre. 

Best,  Natalie,  Allston. 

Best,  Thos.  Wm.,  Jr.,  Newton  Centre. 

Borst,   Elizabeth,   Newton   Centre. 

Braithwaite,   Katherine,  Auburndale. 

Brown,  Catherine,  Auburndale. 

Brown,  Jane,  Auburndale. 

Cabrera,  Ines,  Mexico  City,  Mexico. 

Campbell,   Dorothy,   North   Scituate. 

Cardwell,  Maida,  Auburndale. 

Cheng,  Evilda,  Boston. 

Cornell,  Cora,  Derry,  N.  H. 

Curtis,  Esther,   Upper  Darby,   Penn. 

Dennison,  Clarice,  Dorchester. 

Faxon,  Eleanor,  Wellesley  Hills. 


Fisher,  Austin,  Auburndale. 
Furlong,  Roger,  West  Newton. 
Garner,   Charlotte,   Boston. 
Gay,  Richard,  West  Newton. ' 
Hanna,  Harriet,  Brighton. 
Hanscom,  Adah,  Waban. 
Hedin,   Ida,  Howland,  Maine. 
Hendrie,  Virginia,  Auburndale. 
Henry,  Janet,  Auburndale. 
Hodges,  Katherine,   Newton. 
Hurst,  Avis,  N.ewton. 
Hurst,   Sarah,   Newton. 
Keever,   Mary  Elizabeth,  Auburndale. 
Leatherbee,  Katherine,  West  Newton. 
MacKean,  Clara,   Somerville. 
McDonald,   Gwendolyn,   Ottawa,  Canada. 
Messenger,   Dorothy,   Auburndale. 
Miller,  Helen,  Springfield,  Vermont. 
Mueller,   Louisa,   Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Ordway,  Barbara,  Auburndale. 
Pierce,  Editha,  Lynnfield. 
Plunkett,  Julia,  Cambridge. 
Porter,    Barbara,    Yarmouth,    Nova    Scotia. 
Rose,   Kate,  Wellesley  Hills. 
Savage,   Bessie,   Cohasset. 
Schmidt,  Erna,  Kingston,  N.  Y. 
Smith,   Doris,   Brighton. 
Sprague,   Barbara,  Auburndale. 
Sprague,  Frances,  Auburndale. 
Underhill,  Katherine,  Wallingford,   Conn. 
Wheeldon,  John,  Worcester. 
Winslow,   Donald,  Auburndale. 
Winslow,  Marjorie,  Auburndale. 
Winslow,  Priscilla,  Auburndale. 


The  Sagamore,  Brookline,  Mass. :  Where, 
oh  where  are  your  exchanges  ? 

The  Blue  Bird,  New  York :  Your  com- 
mencement number  was  very  attractive. 

The  Nuntio,  Canton,  Maine :  Although 
your  paper  is  clever  and  well  organized,  we 
think  snaps  would  add  to  the  interest. 

The  Review,  Lowell,  Mass. :     We  like  the 


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idea  of  having  class  issues.     In  your  junior 
number  there   are   some  snappy   sketches. 

The  Megaphone,   Franklin,   Mass. :      Your 
inserted  page  of  pictures  is  unique. 

We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  following  ex- 
changes :  The  Orange  and  Black — Middletown, 
Conn.;  The  Aegis — Beverly,  Mass.;  Hotchkiss  Lit- 
erary Monthly — Lakeville,  Conn. ;  Poly  Life — Balti- 
more, Md. ;  The  Cue- — Albany  Academy,  Albany,  N. 
Y. ;  The  Roman — Rome,  Ga. ;  The  Shucis — Schen- 
ectady, N.  Y. ;  Ferry  Tales — Lake  Forrest,  111. ;  The 
Orange— -White  Plains,  N.  Y. ;  The  World— -St. 
Paul,  Minn.;  Lai  Bagh  Chronicle — Lucknow,  India; 
Ye  Gossip — The  Scudder  School,  New  York  City; 
The  Radnorite — Wayne,  Pa.;  The  High  School 
News — Beamont,  Texas  ;  The  Gleam — St.  Paul, 
Minn. ;  The  Artesan — Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  The  Villa 
Marian — Immaculata,  Pa.;  The  Attic — Passaic,  N. 
J. ;  The  Herald — Holyoke,  Mass. ;  The  Columbian — 
Columbia,  S.  C ;  The  Quill — New  Brighton,  N.  Y. ; 
The  Ophimist — Newark,  N.  J. ;  Lawrence  High 
School  Bulletin — Lawrence,  Mass.;  The  Amydgalaid 
— Houghton,  Mich.;  The  Dalhousie  Gazette — Hali- 
fax, N.  S. ;  The  Brimmer  School  Magazine — Boston, 
Mass. ;  The  Early  Trainer — Lawrence,'  Mass. ;  Phil- 
omath— Framingham,  Mass. ;  High  School  Reviczv — 
Lowell,  Mass. ;  The  Comet — Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. ;  The 
Sunnyside — Tarrytown,  N.  Y. ;  The  High  School 
News — Beaumont,  Texas ;  The  Goldenrod — Wayne, 
Nebr. ;  The  Tattler— Waterloo,  N.  Y. ;  The  Astar— 
Newark,  N.  J.;  The  Blue 'Bird— New  York  City; 
The  Advance — Salem,  Mass.;  The  Acropolis — New- 
ark, N.  J. ;  The  Dickinson  Union — Williamsport, 
Pa.;  The  Sunnyside — Tarrytown,  N.  Y. ;  The  Lion — 
La  Grange,  111. ;  The  Exponent — Greenfield,  Mass. ; 
The  Sagamore — Brookline,  Mass.;  Alpha — New  Bed- 
ford, Mass.;  The  Academy  Monthly — Philadelphia, 
Pa. ;  Keene  Kronicje — Keene,  N.  H. ;  The  Critic — 
Lynchburg,  Va. ;  The  Franklin — Cincinnati,  O. ;  The 
Tradesman — Boston,  Mass. ;  The  Budget — Elizabeth, 
N.  J. ;  The  Magpie — Waterbury,  Conn. ;  Montpelier 
Seminary — Montpelier,  Vt. ;  The  Mirror — Pratt, 
Kansas;  The  Headlight — Richmond,  Ind. ;  The  Stu- 
dent's Review — Northampton,  Mass. ;  The  Rail  Split- 
ter— Lincoln,    111. ;    The   Record — Patchogue,    N.    Y. 


Cupid  has  had  a  busy  and  successful  sum- 
mer! In  proof  of  his  good  work,  we  submit 
the  following  interesting  report : 

On  the  twenty-sixth  of  June,  Grace  Louise 
Vicary,  '07,  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mr. 
John  L.  G.  Pottorf .  They  are  at  home  at  702 
Thirteenth  St.,  N.  W.,  Canton,  Ohio. 

Gladys  Aurora  Thorpe  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Charles  Morse  Thorndike  on  July 
the  nineteenth.  They  are  at  home  at  Elm  St.,. 
Millinocket,   Maine. 

Ruth  Marjorie  Risser,  '12,  became  the  bride 
of  Mr.  E.  Owen  Blackwell  on  the  twentieth 
of  July.  After  the  first  of  October  they  wilf 
be  at  home  at  Asheville,  North  Carolina. 

The  marriage  of  Sarah  Elizabeth  Springall 
to  Dr.  Ray  Sedric  Youmans  on  the  thirtieth 
of  July  is  announced. 

On  the  fifth  of  August  Lois  Nichols,  '18, 
became  Mrs.  Ellsworth  Vaughn  Arnold.  The 
ceremony  occurred  at  twelve  o'clock  noon. 

The  sixth  of  August  was  the  wedding  day 
of  Marian  Lerch,  '16,  when  she  became  the 
bride  of  Mr.  W.  Willard  Hunt. 

Elizabeth  Carleton  and  Mr.  Karl  Greene 
Stillman  were  united  in  marriage  on  the  ninth 
of  August. 

On  the  twenty-first  of  August  Ethel  Maude 
Stone  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mr.  Leonard 
J.  L.  Rich.  After  the  first  of  November  they 
will  be  at  home  at  606  West  113th  St.,  New 
York  City. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Gladstone  Campbell 
announce  the  marriage  of  their  niece  Helen 
Emily  Carter,  '07,  to  Mr.  Ralph  Gerhardt 
Johnson    on    the    twenty-eighth    of    August.. 


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They  will  be  at  home  after  the  first  of  Novem- 
ber at  2211  E.  67th  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

On  the  sixteenth  of  September  Gladys 
Wilkes,  '15,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Lyndon 
Lee  McCutchen.  They  are  at  home  at  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky. 

On  the  twentieth  of  September  Jeanne  Den- 
nett became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Paul  Chester 
Winner. 

Mary  Chilton  Latham  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Dr.  Merton  Weston  Foss  on  October 
the  eighth  at  East  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts. 

On  August  2nd  Miss  Marguerite  Neekamp, 
a  former  member  of  our  Music  Faculty,  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Mr.  Clarence  Henry 
Stein.  They  are  at  home  at  Huntington,  West 
Virginia. 

The  marriage  of  Nina  Dietz,  '11,  to  Mr. 
Benjamin  Porter  Harwood  occurred  on  the 
sixth  of  September  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Olive  Irene  Parker  became  the  bride  of 
Mr.  Douglas  Cummings  on  the  fourth  of  Oc- 
tober. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Elizabeth  Stiles  and  Mr.  Elmer  Harrington 
Tilton. 

Miss  Helene  Dalton  Maggi,  '18,  has  an- 
nounced her  engagement  to  Edwin  Crafts 
Rechel,  Lieutenant  U.  S.  Air  Service. 

The  engagement  of  Eleanor  E.  McCausland, 
'17,  and  Mr.  Norman  E.  Fleming  is  announced. 

The  engagement  of  Mary  Augusta  Fenno, 
'13,  and  Altert  L.  Stirn  is  announced. 

Miss  Ruth  Louise  Roop,  a  former  member 
of  our  faculty  has  announced  her  engagement 
to  Mr.  Waldo  Atwood  Cleveland  of  Baldwin- 
ville,  Massachusetts. 

Lasell  was  honored  during  these  fall  days 
by  a  call  from  Miss  Harriet  S.  Hyde,  a  stu- 
dent at  Lasell  fifty-one  years  ago  during  Mr. 
Briggs'  principalship.  She  brought  with  her 
her  grand-niece,  Harriet  S.  Hawks  whom  we 
are  delighted  to  say  is  among  our  new  girls. 
/  It  is  many  a  day  since  Frances  Fitzpatrick 
was  a  Lasell  girl.  She  happened  in  one  dav 
in  September  and  told  us  among  other  things 
that  Matilda  D.  Schoverling  is  now  a  countess 


and  lives  in  Switzerland  and  has  one  daughter. 
She  is  very  happily  married  and  has  a  beauti- 
ful home,  has  been  visited  by  some  of  her  old 
Lasell  friends.  We  only  wish  we  knew  the 
name  of  her  titled  husband.  / 

Dear  Frances'  mother  passed  away  last 
June.  She  and  her  sister  are  living  in  their 
old  homestead  in  Troy,  New  York. 

In  a  note  which  followed  the  travel  party 
from  San  Francisco  to  Lasell  Edith  Simes 
Bennett  refers  to  the  Lasell  girls'  ride  under 
her  guidance  on  the  Foothill  Boulevard 
through  Arcadia,  Monrovia,  and  Covina  re- 
turning via  Valley  Boulevard  past  San  Marino 
where  Henry  Huntington  lives.  She  did  not 
say  that  the  travelers'  objective  was  the  home 
of  Lillian  Douglass,  '07,  and  her  parents  in 
Altadena  where  they  were  disappointed  in  not 
finding  the  family  at  home  but  Edith  felt  at 
liberty  to  invite  her  guests  to  help  themselves 
freely  from  Lillian's  fine  orange  and  lemon 
groves. 

/Mae  Chan  Lam,  Almira  Shepard,  and  Mary 
Casey  called  at  the  Seminary  this  fall.  Almira 
is  a  successful  business  woman  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  and  Mary  Casey  is  a  home  keeper. 
Mae  called  especially  to  say  good-bye  as  she 
and  her  husband  are  returning  to  China.  Her 
address  for  the  next  six  months  will  be  22 
Caine  Rd.,  Hongkong,  China,  but  later  she 
and  her  husband  will  be  at  home  in  Shanghai 
where  Mr.  Lam  will  be  the  representative  of 
the  Stone  and  Webster  Company,  a  fine  busi- 
ness opening  for  this  ambitious  Technology 
graduate.      / 

The  closing  days  of  the  summer  vacation 
were  anxious  ones  for  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow 
and  a  host  of  their  Auburndale  friends  on  ac- 
count of  the  serious  illness  of  Marjorie  in 
Maine.  We  are  thankful  to  report  her  con- 
valescing and  we  hope  for  her  speedy  recov- 
ery. 

We  are  glad  to  welcome  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  F.  Towne.  Mr.  Towne  comes  as  our 
Associate  Principal  and  has  for  some  time 
been  known  as  a  leading  educator  having  been 
the    Assistant    Superintendent   of    Schools    in 


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Providence  and  more  recently  at  our  Massa- 
chusetts State  House  as  head  of  the  Ameri- 
canization work. 

Two  of  our  graduates  will  serve  this  year 
on  our  faculty;  Nellie  AVoodward,  '15,  as 
head  of  the  Physical  Training  Department  and 
Lillian  Laffey,  '17,  as  instructor  of  French  at 
the  Woodland  Park  School. 

Among  our  new  teachers  whom  we  are 
glad  to  welcome  are: 

Miss  Florence  Gertrude  Perkins  of  Leban- 
on, N.  H. — mathematics. 

Miss  Martha  Du  Bois  of  Urbana,  Illinois — 
history. 

Miss  Emma  F.  Norton  of  Allston,  Mass. — 
secretarial  training. 

Miss  Margaret  Walker  of  Beverly,  Mass. — 
cooking. 

Miss  Beatrice  N.  Knight  of  Hudson,  Mass. 
-music. 

Miss  Flora  A.  Boynton  of  Pepperell,  Mass. 
■ — assistant  in  physical  training. 

Our  old  girls  will  be  interested  to  read  the 
following  list  of  new  girls  who  are  sisters  of 
our  former  students : 

Carolyn  Brooks,  sister  of  Helen. 
Emma  Perley,  sister  of  Margaret. 
Melba  Keasor,  sister  of  Mildred. 
Thirza  Abrams,  sister  of  Carolie. 
We  are  glad  to  welcome  back  Esther  Mur- 
ray who  was  not  with  us  last  year. 

In  August  Jean  McKay  wrote  to  our  pre- 
ceptress saying  that  she  was  expecting  a  visit 
from  Miss  Warner,  our  former  Physical 
Training  instructor.  Jean  writes  one  of  the 
most  interesting  letters  which  ever  comes  into 
the  Leaves  editorial  office.  We  would  like 
to  print  every  word  of  it.  She  reports  hear- 
ing from  Miss  Edith  Williams  who  had  just 
been  entertaining  Miss  Rand  and  who  at  the 
time  of  her  writing  had  started  for  a  visit 
with  Miss  Shank  in  Williamsport,  Pa.  She 
writes  further,  "A  letter  from  Lenette  Rogers, 
'17,  tells  of  a  call  on  Miss  Irwin  who  was  her 
usual  very  busy  self.  Lenette  adds,  'I  believe 
the  entire  town  depends  on  the  dear  lady  to 
solve  its  problems,  cheer  it  up,  and  encourage 


the  down-hearted.'  "  The  most  interesting  bit 
of  news  in  Jean's  letter  was  the  announcement 
of  her  engagement.  She  did  not  give  the  name 
of  the  fortunate  young  man  but  did  tell  us 
that  he  is  a  civil  engineer  at  present  the  divi- 
sion engineer  for  the  Texas  Oil  Company  in 
Montana,  Wyoming  and  Colorado  and  they 
expect  to  make  their  home  in  Denver.  Lov- 
ing congratulations  to  Jean  and  her  engineer ! 
During  the  summer  Miss  Adeline  L.  Adams 
a  former  art  teacher  at  Lasell  passed  away 
in  her  Newtonville  home.  Some  of  the  girls 
of  former  years  will  remember  gratefully  this 
gentle  and  gifted  instructor  and  will  learn 
with  sadness  of  her  passing  away. 

One  of  the  tragedies  of  the  past  summer 
was  the  death  of  Helen  Sebring  Gahris  of  Se- 
bring,  Ohio,  who  died  as  a  result  of  eating 
cold  storage  food  which  had  been  served  at 
a  dinner.  There  were  four  other  victims  but 
so  far  as  we  know  there  were  two  who  died 
as  a  result  of  this  poisoning. 

The  Dubuque  Telegraph-Herald  of  July  7th 
announced  the  death  of  Mrs.  Ada  Langwor- 
thy  Collier,  '61,  one  of  its  most  gifted  and 
prominent  women,  known  throughout  the  state 
for  her  marked  literary  ability  and  her  charm- 
ing and  gracious  personality. 

We  are  grieved  to  learn  of  the  death  of 
these  old  Lasell  girls  and  seek  this  opportunity 
to  express  our  deepest  sympathy  to  these  be- 
reaved families. 

The  old  girls,  especially  of  Clark  Cottage, 
and  a  host  of  Lasell  friends  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  Wagner  will  be  glad  to  know  that 
they  have  not  entirely  withdrawn  from  our 
school  but  are  at  home  in  the  new  Woodland 
Park  dormitory. 

The  Sunday  Herald  of  July  10th  contained 
a  fine  portrait  of  Lila  Woodbury  Lane  who 
has  been  conspicuous  in  her  public  service 
during  the  war. 

In  a  letter  to  Mrs.  Barris  from  Carolyn 
Kuhn  we  learn  that  she  is  attending  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  and  enjoying  her  work.  We 
wish  her  success  in  her  new  school. 

Through  a  good  word   from  Esther  Ross, 


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'18,  we  have  received  among  our  new  students 
Hernia  Schweitzer.  In  a  personal  note  to 
our  Preceptress  Esther  sends  best  wishes  for 
Lasell  "at  large." 

Miss  Nellie  Warner,  former  head  of  our 
Physical  Training  Department  is  this  winter 
doing  similar  work  in  the  Castilleja  School, 
Palo  Alto,  California.  Those  of  us  who  visit- 
ed this  seat  of  the  Leland  Stanford  University 
the  past  summer  congratulate  Miss  Warner 
upon  being  in  such  a  beautiful  California  city 
and  we  also  congratulate  the  school  which  has 
secured  her  efficient  services. 

Dear  Concepcion  Aguirre  Cinta  sends  lov- 
ing greetings  to  the  school  and  wishes  with 
all  her  heart  that  she  were  back  wth  us  again. 
We  certainly  miss  this  dear  southern  girl 
and  hope  sometime  she  will  return  to  her  Alma 
Mater  and  to  us. 

The  Carpenter  Hall  girls  especially  will  be 
interested  to  learn  of  the  marriage  of  Char- 
lotte Caroline  Joy  to  Mr.  Harry  Carl  Nord- 
strom on  September  twentieth. 

Mrs.  Statira  McDonald  of  the  Woodland 
Park  School  has  been  entertaining  her  parents 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Caldwell  of  Ottawa.  Those  of 
us  who  had  the  privilege  of  meeting  these 
friends  are  remembering  with  pleasure  their 
visit  in  our  midst. 

Leona  Evans  had  her  ticket  "all  bought  for 
Lasell"  but  was  unable  to  come  on  account  of 
illness.  She  writes  of  a  delightful  auto  trip 
into  Mexico  and  then  through  Wyoming.  We 
have  not  wholly  given  up  the  hope  of  having 
her  with  us  again  as  a  regular  student. 

Dear  Phyllis  Rowe,  '19,  is  moving  forward 
as  we  expected  she  would.  She  is  now  a  stu- 
dent at  Johns  Hopkins  University  specializing 
in  Dietetics.  Our  best  wishes  follow  her  con- 
stantly. 

Our  ranks  are  being  constantly  recruited. 
The  following  list  of  little  newcomers  will 
interest  the  old  Lasell  girls  and  we  send  our 
congratulations  to  the  dear  parents  and  the 
wee  children. 

On  June  twenty-sixth  a  son,  Charles  Moss 
Shriner,  was  born  in  the  home  of   Mr.   and 


Mrs.  Blanchard  Urner  Shriner  (Katherine 
Moss). 

Mary  Jane  Hawkins  came  on  July  4th  to 
bless  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Sumner 
Hawkins   (Ada  Esther  Swanger,  '13). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  H.  George  (Ruth  Hall) 
announce  the  birth  of  Millicent  George  on 
July  seventeenth. 

John  Dean,  Junior,  arrived  on  July  nine- 
teenth in  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Dean 
Corley   (Marion  Ordway,  '11). 

On  August  ninth  Julian  Ray  Thompson  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clinton  R.  Thompson 
(Cora  Hasty). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Oppenheimer 
(Marion  Louise  Joslin,  T2)  are  the  proud 
parents  of  a  son,  William  Ellis,  born  August 
eleventh. 

In  a  letter  to  Miss  Packard  from  Mae  Chis- 
holm  Brown  she  enclosed  a  dear  snapshot  of 
herself  and  her  wee  girl  Miriam.  She  is  only 
a  baby  but  our  '"dear  deaconess  still"  writes, 
"I  am  beginning  her  Lasell  fund  for  I  am 
determined  that  some  day  little  Miriam  will 
be  a  real  Lasell  girl."  Mrs.  Brown's  address 
is  still  R.  No.  3,  Box  H,  Santa  Ana,  California. 

Sarah  Hopkins,  '19,  in  a  letter  to  our  Regis- 
trar tells  of  a  visit  of  Hulda  Halley,  '18,  and 
her  mother  in  Fort  Fairfield,  Maine.  They 
were  the  guests  of  Henrietta  Bishop  Holt. 
By  the  way,  Gertrude  Trafton,  '19,  is  now 
in  Boston  attending  the  Chandler  School  and 
the  twins,  Mary  and  Sarah,  '19,  are  happily 
located  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College,  while  Martha 
McLaughlin,  Cornelia  Evans,  and  Esther  Mc- 
Master  are  freshmen  at  Wellesley. 

We  are  proud  of  our  Lasell  girls  many  of 
them  graduates  whose  ambition  has  taken 
them  into  college  and  we  wish  them  all  suc- 
cess in  their  forward  movement. 

Lorna  Merritt — University  of  Wisconsin. 

Irene  Fuller — Beachwood  School  in  Penn- 
sylvania. 

Muriel  Sanger — Miss  Guild  and  Miss  Evans 
School. 

Dorothy  Hall,  '19 — Boston  University 
School  of   Secretarial   Science. 


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Ethel  Frost,  '19 — Boston  University  School 
of  Secretarial  Science. 

Sibyl  Weymouth,  '19 — Boston  University 
School  of  Secretarial  Science. 

Lydia  Rich — University  of  Wisconsin. 

May  Fogg — Sargent  School. 

Among  the  most  interesting  invitations  re- 
ceived by  our  Principal  was  the  one  from 
Irvina  Pomeroy,  '18,  inviting  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Winslow  to  her  graduation  exercises  at  the 
School  for  Dental  Hygienists  at  the  Forsyth 
Dental  Infirmary  on  Friday  evening,  October 
3rd. 

Theodora  Close  Fox,  0'4,  Edith  Anthony 
Carlow,  '06,  and  Edna  Thurston  Follett  very 
naturally  came  together  to  pay  their  respects 
to  Lasell  and  their  former  teachers.  It  was 
a  delight  to  have  them  with  us  again  and  in 
such  fine  health  and  spirits  and  they  talked 
quite  seriously  about  their  little  daughters  en- 
tering Lasell  at  some  future  date. 

Tessa  May  Benjamin  and  her  husband  tar- 
ried but  for  an  hour  but  were  enthusiastic 
over  Tessa's  old  school.  Their  home  is  in 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 

Mary  Goodwillie  Townsend,  '12,  at  last  paid 
us  a  visit,  or  more  truly  'a  call.  We  venture 
to  exclaim  in  the  words  of  her  adopted  north 
country  vernacular,  "It  was  a  sight  good  for 
sore  eyes"  to  see  this  dear  graduate.  She 
reports  Dora,  '14,  still  gaining.  We  felt  so 
delighted  at  seeing  Mary  we  sincerely  hope 
she  will  repeat  her  visits  more  frequently. 

Seldom  have  we  received  sadder  news  than 
the  announcement  of  the  death  of  dear  Annie 
Dimond's  ('18)  brother  who  was  drowned  in 
the  Charles  River  in  the  summer.  Mr.  Di- 
mond  really  lost  his  life  in  saving  the  life  of 
a  young  woman  who  had  been  accidentally 
thrown   from  a  canoe. 

We  also  have  had  word  of  the  passing  away 
of  the  father  of  Rose  Hoefflin  in  East  Du- 
buque, Illinois.  Our  tenderest  sympathy  is 
extended  to  these  former  schoolmates  and 
their  bereaved  families. 

In  a  note  from  Fannie  Dealey  Decherd,  '06, 
to    our   Principal    she    speaks    enthusiastically 


of  our  new  student,  Florence  Greene.  She 
writes,  "I  was  somewhat  staggered  this  morn- 
ing when  I  counted  back  thirteen  whole  years 
since  I  left  dear  old  Lasell  but  I  suppose  I 
should  realize  the  fact  as  my  seven  year  old 
daughter  started  to  school  today.  I  also  have 
a  fine  boy  of  five  years  and  Annie  boasts  of 
four  children  all  boys,  the  last  two  being  twins 
born  on  June  22nd  last.  Kathleen  MacDonald 
came  through  Dallas  this  week  on  her  way  to 
Lasell.  So  you  see  our  family  is  still  repre- 
sented." We  greatly  appreciate  the  practical 
loyalty  of  these  former  Lasell  students  and 
rejoice  over  the  good  news  contained  in  Fan- 
nie's  letter. 

Several  of  the  faculty  received  picture  post 
cards  from  Florence  Hamilton  who  is  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  Oberlin,  Ohio,  with  her  mo- 
ther. 

On  the  eleventh  of  October  Lillian  Staniels 
Lawton  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Appleton 
Train  Miles. 

Sarah  Caldwell,  '06,  called  at  the  Seminary 
in  August.  In  her  note  to  Miss  Witherbee 
she  writes,  "I  was  glad  to  see  Miss  Potter, 
Dr.  Winslow  and  Mrs.  Hilbourn  but  missed 
you,  Mrs.  Loomis  and  Mile.  LeRoyer.  Of 
course  you  have  read  of  the  great  disaster 
at  Corpus  Christi.  We  are  glad  that  all  our 
dear  ones  were  saved  and  that  we  have  our 
homes  although  they  were  badly  damaged. 
The  business  is  a  total  loss  but  we  are  not 
going  to  worry  about  that.  I  am  taking  the 
course  in  Institutional  Household  Science  at 
Pratt  Institute  and  hope  next  year  to  be  ready 
for  a  position  as  dietitian  or  manager  in  a 
tea  room.  I  have  just  heard  from  Margaret 
Henderson  Soule,  'OS,  who  is  living  in  Superior, 
Arizona.  Gertrude  Graham  Etchen,  '06,  writes 
that  she  is  taking  a  trip  with  her  father  through 
the  oil  fields  of  Texas  and  Louisiana.  Louise 
Kelly  Ultes,  '07,  is  going  to  move  to  her  old 
home  in  Springfield,  Ohio."  We  thank  Sarah 
for  this  message  and  hope  to  see  her  during 
the  year. 

In  a  charming  letter  received  by  our  Prin- 
cipal's wife,  Mrs.  Winslow,  from  Edith  Mc- 


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Lure  Patterson,  '02,  we  learn  that  she  is 
planning,  through  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Good- 
willie,  father  of  Mary,  '12,  and  Dora,  '14,  to 
entertain  the  Lasell  Club  of  Chicago  at  the 
Union  League  Club  at  their  autumn  meeting. 
Mrs.  Patterson  has  had  a  busy  but  progress- 
sive  spring  and  summer.  She  has  entered 
the  Chicago  University  to  take  advanced  work 
along  Domestic  Science  lines  and  has  had  some 
interesting  experiences  addressing  the  labor- 
ing classes  largely  in  connection  with  her  hus- 
band's work.  She  is  also  writing  for  the 
press.  We  are  certainly  proud  of  this  gradu- 
ate and  wish  her  Godspeed  in  her  forward 
movement. 

Westward  Ho !  At  least  we  did  arrive,  on 
the  Pacific  Coast,  and  our  most  enthusiastic 
dreams  about  this  trans-continental  journey 
were  realized.  We  are  leaving  the  actual 
travel  notes  to  be  "written  up"  by  one  of  the 
girls  of  the  Lasell  group,  but  we  must  have 
our  say  about  the  "Lasellites"  met  en  route. 

In  Chicago  Julia  Potter  Schmidt's,  '06,  hus- 
band was  on  hand  to  welcome  us  and  at  the 
close  of  the  day  came  to  bid  us  Goodspeed. 

Our  first  live  Lasell  girl  met  was  dear  Mary 
Taylor,  '17,  who  is  really  at  home  in  Denver, 
Colorado.  She  and  her  aunt  were  kind  enough 
to  call  at  the  hotel  and  Mary  told  us  much 
of  interest  concerning  herself  and  her  busi- 
ness career.  In  the  same  beautiful  city  we 
were  hospitably  entertained  by  Mrs.  Wood- 
ward, mother  of  our  Josephine  Woodward 
Rand,  '10,  and  Nellie  Woodward,  '15,  and 
also  of  dear  little  Jean  Woodward  now  to 
young  womanhood  grown  whom  we  hope  to 
have  with  us  next  year,  and  several  neighbors 
who  are  expecting  to  place  their  daughters 
in  Lasell  in  the  near  future.  We  spent  a 
delightful  evening  and  were  grateful  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Woodward  for  this  bit  of  western 
hospitality. 

Not  until  we  reached  far  away  Pasadena 
did  we  again  really  look  into  the  faces  of 
three  of  our  own  girls.  To  be  sure  at  Santa 
Barbara  we  had  a  word  over  the  telephone 
with  Mary  Gallagher,  TO,  who  declared  her- 


self and  family  well.  A  previous  engage- 
ment of  Mary's  prevented  our  meeting. 

On  our  arrival  at  Hotel  Maryland  in  Pasa- 
dena we  found  our  room  radiant  and  redolent 
with  flowers.  The  next  day  Jack  Bragdon 
told  "right  out"  that  Aunt  Matt's  (Miss  Ran- 
som, thoughtfulness  had  provided  this  beau- 
tiful welcome  for  us. 

■^The  next  day  our  dear  Principal  Emeritus, 
Mrs.  Bragdon,  Belle  Bragdon  Barlow,  '95, 
and  her  little  daughter,  and  John  Bragdon  and 
his  wife  called,  and  what  a  joy  it  was  to  re- 
ceive their  cordial  greetings.  The  very  next 
evening  we  were  guests  at  Dr.  Bragdon's  beau- 
tiful Pasadena  home.  We  could  write  many 
pages  on  the  attractions  of  this  house  (one  of 
Pasadena's  show  places).  Many  articles  of 
virtue  adorned  the  rooms,  and  told  the  story 
of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bragdon's  world  wide  trav- 
els. Some  of  the  best  paintings  which  used 
to  enrich  the  walls  of  old  Lasell  are  found  in 
the  splendid  art  gallery  of  this  home.  /  The 
situation  of  the  house  is  ideal.  From  the  gar- 
dens one  can  look  away  across  the  arroyo 
to  the  wooded  slopes  opposite  and  more  dis- 
tant mountains.  As  one  of  our  group  ex- 
claimed upon  looking  down  into  the  valley  with 
its  blossoming  trees,  "Why  this  arroyo  seems 
to  be  a  valley  which  has  substituted  a  flower 
bed  for  a  river  bed."  What  a  novel  experi- 
ence for  most  of  us  when  at  Mr.  Bragdon's  in- 
vitation we  gathered  oranges  and  lemons  from 
his  trees,  and  willingly  received  a  spray  of 
lemon  verbena,  one  of  the  many  blossoms 
which  filled  the  air  with  fragrance.  But  I 
must  let  the  other  "old  girl"  tell  the  rest  of 
the  story. 

Two  of  our  most  devoted  Lasell  girls  who 
made  our  Pasadena  visit  memorable  were 
Helen  Overholser,  '16,  and  Edith  Simonds 
Bennett.  If  you  ever  visit  this  fair  city,  let 
us  give  you  a  line  of  introduction  to  Edith. 
She  is  the  dearest  little  booster  we  believe — 
in  Pasadena.  It  is  an  actual  fact  that  what 
she  does  not  know  about  that  city  is  not  worth 
knowing. 

Helen  looks  even  younger  and  prettier  than 


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when  at  Lasell.  Girls  listen !  Work  well  done 
is  a  beautifier.  (For  most  people.)  Helen  is 
no  longer  a  teacher  but  a  supervisor. 

Mary  and  Katherine  Wadsworth's  mother 
talked  with  us  over  the  telephone.  The  girls 
were  away  that  day.  Only  an  overcrowded 
itinerary  prevented  us  from  accepting  the  mo- 
ther's cordial  invitation  to  call. 

The  San  Francisco  girls  were  off  on  their 
vacation,  but  we  did  meet  by  fortunate  chance 
Charlotte  Wythe  Rideout  and  her  sister-in- 
law  and  dear  little  baby.  By  the  way,  don't 
people  away  out  West  grow  old?  There  was 
Mistress  Charlotte  just  as  pretty  as  a  peach. 
How  glad  we  were  to  meet  this  post-graduate ! 

Barbara  Vail  Bosworth's,  '05,  father,  Rev. 
Milton  Vail,  was  kind  enough  to  look  in  upon 
us  at  our  hotel  in  San  Francisco.  He  ex- 
pressed a  great  hope  that  Barbara  might  visit 
them  soon.  Since  our  return  to  Lasell  we 
learn  that  she  is  actually  going  to  California 
in  October  with  Miss  Ransom. 

At  Portland,  Oregon,  we  hoped  to  see  Meta 
Buehner  Noble,  '06,  and  Lillian  Buehner  Ladd. 
Both  were  away  but  Lillian's  husband  called 
on  our  party  at  the  hotel  and  through  the  gen- 
erous courtesy  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Buehner  who 
sent  their  limousine,  we  toured  for  some  five 
hours  over  the  glorious  Columbia  River  High- 
way and  visited  every  point  of  real  interest  un- 
der the  efficient  and  delightful  leadership  of 
Lillian's  husband,  Mr.  Ladd.  On  account  of 
the'  illness  of  Mrs.  Buehner  we  did  not  meet 
but  our  party  did  have  a  glimpse  at  their  beau- 
tiful Portland  home. 

At  Lake  Louise  in  the  Canadian  Rockies 
we  discovered  Lou  Best  Cumnock.  She  and 
her  daughter  were  guests  at  the  hotel  where 
we  were  stopping. 

In  the  writing  room  of  the  Banff  Spring 
Hotel  we  met  Mrs.  Winnie  Ewing  Coffin,  '89, 
She  with  a  party  of  congenial  Iowa  friends 
were  making  a  real  visit  of  several  weeks 
at  this  magnificent  mountain  resort.  She  was 
as  genial  as  ever  and  enthusiastic  over  her 
Alma  Mater. 

Later    at    the    little    shuttle    station    whom 


should  we  see  boarding  the  train  but  Mary 
Fenno,  '13.  She  was  escorted  by  a  very  fine 
looking  young  man  and  one  of  the  courageous 
Lasellites  asked,  "Mary,  are  you  married?" 
We  thought  she  answered,  "Not  yet."  But 
there  was  a  shining  about  the  ring  finger  of 
the  left  hand  which  in  part  confirmed  our 
surmises. 

Our  train  was  late  at  Minneapolis  but  we 
did  have  one  hour's  visit  with  Mary  Potter 
McConn,  '05,  her  husband  and  dear  little 
daughters  three. 

To  be  sure  Clara  Nims,  '07,  Katherine  Dear- 
born, '16,  Katherine  Tufts  and  Laura  Simons 
we  met  daily,  but  none  too  often.  They  were 
ideal  travellers  and  their  joyous  presence  more 
than  anything  else  helped  to  make  this  Trans- 
continental trip  in  many  ways  the  most  de- 
lightful journey  we  have  ever  taken. 

L.  R.  P. 


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JOKES 


"Freshies  marching  down  the  hall 
Big  eyes  cast  on  seniors  tall 
Open  mouths  and  wondering  if 
Freshies  ever  get  so  stiff." 


"Absence  makes  the  heart  grow  fonder, 
Leastwise  that  is  what  people  say. 
That's  why  we  like  teachers  better, 
On  the  days  they  stay  away." — Ex. 


Jimmie  James :     "Did  you  all  have  a  breezy 
time  drafting  patterns?" 


Shakespeare  applied  to  school : — 
Freshman :     "A  comedy  of  Errors." 
Sophomore :     "As  You  Like  It." 
Junior:     "Much  Ado  about  Nothing." 
Senior :     "All's  Well  that  Ends  Well." 


"If   a  man   smashed   a   clock  would  he  be 
committed  for  killing  time?" 
"Not  if  the  clock  struck  first." 


Ex. 


M.  W. :  "I  met  Irene  Fuller  today.  She 
says  I'm  getting  fat." 

F.  S. :    "That's  natural." 

M.  W.:     "Why?" 

F.  S. :  "Because  you  were  looking  Fuller 
in  the  face." 


In  chemistry :  "Now,  girls,  if  anything  goes 
wrong  with  this  experiment  we'll  be  blown 
sky-high.  Come  a  little  closer  so  you  may 
follow  me." 


"The  teacher  gives  you  work  to  do 
You  study  your  lesson  thru  and  thru 
The  very  next  day  does  she  call  on  you? 

No! 
That  very  same  night  you  go  to  a  ball 
You  don't  even  study  your  lessons  at  all; 
You  go  to  school.     On  you  does  she  call  ? 
(Don't  all  answer  at  once)" — Ex. 


Editor :     "How  did  you  come  out  with  the 

ads.   for  this  magazine?" 

Manager:  "I  got  two  orders  in  one  place." 
Editor :  "Good  work  !  What  were  they  ?" 
Manager:     "One  to  get  out,  and  the  other 

to  keep  out." 

Ex. 


Teacher:  "Do  you  know  Lincoln's  Gettys- 
burg Address  ?" 

Pupil :  "I  thought  he  lived  at  the  White 
House. 


History     teacher :       "Who     supported    the 
world  on  his  shoulders  ?" 
Pupil :     "Atlas." 

History  teacher:     "And  do  you  know  who 
supported  Atlas?" 

Pupil :    "I  suppose  he  married  a  rich  wife.'"' 

Ex. 


Domestic  Science  teacher:  "Why  must  we 
always  be  careful  to  keep  our  homes  neat 
and  clean?" 

Student :  "Because  company  may  walk  in 
any  moment." 


Senior:     "Did  you  ever  take  chloroform?" 
Freshman  :     "No,  who  teaches  it  ?" 


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Lillian  M.  Packard 


What  do  you  think  of  my  roses  and  spiraea  ? 
This  is  a  question  asked  by  Sophie  White 
Locke  in  a  letter  to  Jessie  MacMillan  from 
her  far-away  summer  home  across  the  lake 
from  Seattle.  The  picture  has  been  borrowed 
that  it  might  serve  as  a  text  for  our  fore- 
word to  the  old  girls  this  new  year.  A  cer- 
tain pastor  was  accustomed  to  say  to  his  con- 
gregation "the  church  is  heated  and  lighted 
for  you,"  so  to  our  contingent  we  wish  to  em- 
phasize again  this  Supplement  is  prepared  and 
printed  for  you.  You  and  your  surroundings 
and   the    events    of   your   busy   lives    interest 


us  and  your  Lasell  mates.  We  must  depend 
upon  you  for  the  news.  You  can  send  it  to  us 
direct  or  through  your  class  life-secretary. 
We  appreciate  the  more  this  picture  of  our 
friend  in  her  bower  of  flowers  because  we 
know  a  little  of  the  perplexing  problems  and 
the  strenuous  work  she  has  had  during  the 
war  years. 


WESTWARD  HO! 


On  a  certain  evening  in  June,  a  choice  com- 
pany assembled  for  dinner  at  Clark  Cottage, 
guests  of  Mrs.  Wagner;  the  real  purpose  in 
meeting,  however,  was  to  speed  Miss  Potter 
on  her  westward  way  with  wishes  good  and 
hearty.  One  of  the  faculty  with  her  usual 
wit  and  ready  pen  presented  her  with  a  poem, 
one  verse  of  which  is  as  follows : 

'With  her  to  keep  her  fearful  joy 

From  running  to  excess  sir, 
She  took  along  a  girl  or  so 
To  look  after,  I  guess  sir." 

The  girls  Miss  Potter  took  along  to  look 
after  were  Katherine  Tufts,  Miss  Harriet 
Crockett,  Katherine  Dearborn,  '16,  and  Clara 
Nims,  '07.  Laura  Simons  joined  later  on. 
Judging  from  Miss  Potter's  actions,  we  did 
not  keep  her  joy  from  running  to  excess;  in 
fact,  she  was  the  gayest  member  of  the  com- 
pany. With  a  Temple  Tour  party  we  started 
for  the  Pacific  Coast  on  July  first.     We  went 


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expecting  a  good  time,  and  our  expectations 
were  realized  anew  each  day. 


CLARA   NIMS     KATHERINE   DEARBORN     KATHERINE   TUFTS 
HARRIETT  CROCKET  MISS  POTTER 

Denver  was  the  first  stop.  With  Denver 
as  headquarters  we  motored  for  three  days 
through  the  Rockies.  One  of  the  most  en- 
joyable features  of  the  entire  trip  was  our 
trip  to  Long's  Peak  Inn,  the  home  of  Enos 
Mills,  the  naturalist.  It  was  our  first  experi- 
ence in  a  mountain  camp.  That  evening  Mr. 
Mills  gave  one  of  his  nature  talks,  followed 
by  a  walk  in  the  woods.  At  nine-thirty,  with 
the  afterglow  of  the  sunset  reflected  from  the 
mountains,  Mr.  Mills  pointed  out  the  western 
yellow  pine,  the  lodge  pole  pine  and  the  scars 
left  on  these  trees  by  fires  fifty,  a  hundred 
or  even  two  or  three  hundred  years  ago. 

Returning  through  Estes  Park,  rich  in 
mountain  scenery,  our  next  stop  was  Manitoo 
at  the  foot  of  Pike's  Peak.  It  was  Pike's 
Peak  for  us  by  the  cog  road  without  "the 
bust." 

A  day  was  spent  at  old  Santa  Fe,  which  was 
both  a  disappointment  and  a  surprise.  A  dis- 
appointment that  it  was  not  on  the  main  line 
of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  also  that  it  was  a 
city  of  only  five  thousand  souls.  Its  quaint 
streets  and  the  number  of  its  old  Spanish 
adobe  homes  were  a  surprise.  It  was  here, 
while  governor  of  New  Mexico,  that  Lew 
Wallace  wrote  "Ben  Hur."  The  governor's 
palace  is  now  used  as  a  museum.  The  men 
who  acted  as  our  guides  were  pack-outfitters, 
accustomed  to  taking  parties   on  long  camp- 


ing trips,  and  so  were  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  this  section  of  the  country.  A  ride  of 
about  ten  miles  over  the  sage  covered  mesa 
brought  us  to  the  Tesuque  Indian  village. 
Here  were  Pueblo  Indians,  their  children  and 
their  dogs  in  the  same  homes,  living  in  the 
same  way  that  their  grandfathers  had  lived 
hundreds  of  years  ago.  It  was  a  step  into 
the  past. 

Looking  back  over  the  various  places  which 
we  visited,  the  Grand  Canyon  looms  bigger 
and  ever  bigger  in  my  mind.  We  were  there 
two  days,  enjoying  the  unique  and  comforta- 
ble hotel  and  the  pine  woods,  a  most  welcome 
sight  after  the  desolate  wastes  of  New  Mex- 
ico and  Arizona.  With  pride  we  point  to 
Katherine  Tufts,  the  only  member  of  our 
party  who  had  the  courage  to  undertake  the 
seemingly   perilous    trail    trip.      We    watched 


MR.    MILLS 


her  in  her  rented  suit  of  blue  denim  as  she 
mounted  her  mule  and  followed  her  down 
the  trail  for  a  few  turns.  At  five  o'clock  the 
cavalcade  returned,  and  our  brave  lady  re- 
ported that  they  had  picked  peaches  in  the 
canyon,  and  had  had  a  splendid  day  in  spite 
of  the  mercury,  registered  at  107. 


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IN   THE   GARDEN    OF   THE    GODS 

Our  first  stop  in  California  was  at  the 
beautiful  Mission  Inn,  Riverside.  This  Span- 
ish inn,  with  its  wonderful  art  collection,  is 
valued  at  more  than  a  million  dollars.  Our 
course  lay  from  Coronado  Beach  to  Vancou- 
ver, and  we  were  frequently  in  view  of  the 
ocean,  so  that  we  feel  as  if  we  had  a  bowing 
acquaintance  at  least  with  the  Pacific. 

At  Pasadena  we  had  the  pleasure  of  meet- 
ing Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bragdon  and  their  family, 
and  were  delightfully  entertained  by  our  Prin- 
cipal Emeritus  in  his  beautiful  Pasadena 
home.  He  is  the  same  genial  Dr.  Bragdon  as 
in  our  days  at  Lasell. 

Until  we  reached  San  Jose  our  party  was 
conducted  by  Mr.  Ruscoe,  an  ideal  guide.  We 
were  .all  agreed  that  our  leader  was  all  right 
as  far  as  he  went,  but  he  did  not  go  far 
enough.  We  were  obliged  to  say  farewell  to 
him  and  a  group  of  our  travelling  companions 


at   San  Jose.     Miss  Potter  then  took  charge 
of  the  Lasell  party. 

At  Vancouver  we  were  glad  to  leave  the 
conventionalities  of  city  life  behind  us  and 
enjoy  the  freedom  of  the  wonderful  Canadian 
Rockies.  Twenty-four  hours  was  all  too 
short  a  time  in  which  to  enjoy  Glacier,  a 
most  quaint  and  bewitching  spot,  entirely 
surrounded  by  rugged  mountains  and  glaciers. 
The  suggestion  of  "a  picnic"  met  an  enthu- 
siastic response,  so  it  happened  that  we  set 
fprth  on  a  hike  to  the  Glacier.  At  first  the 
path  led  through  beautiful  woods  to  immense 
fields  of  stone  with  the  glacier  in  the  distance. 

Could  we  ever  scramble  over  these  rocks? 
After  much  effort  and  many  bruises,  we  took 
our  stand  against  the  Illecillewaet  Glacier,  and 
the  thirsty  ones  quenched  their  thirst  with  the 
water  from  the  slowly  melting  ice. 

Each  place  had  a  distinctive  attraction. 
Field,  our  next  stopping  place,  lies  in  the 
midst  of  a  wonderful  forest.  Leaving  the 
railroad  we  rode  seven  miles  through  the 
woods  to  Emerald  Lake,  named  for  its  ex- 
quisite color,  and  there  spent  two  nights  in  a 
small  chalet  overlooking  it.  An  all-day  ride 
took  us  through  the  Yoho  Valley,  this  time  in 
a  tally-ho  with  a  driver  in  broad  sombrero. 

After  three  enjoyable  days  at  Lake  Louise, 
the  gem  of  the  Canadian  Rockies,  and  Banff, 
where  we  had  another  climb  up  the  mountain 
trail  on  horseback,  we  packed  our  trunks  and 
boarded  the  train  for  home.  The  delightful 
trip  is  over  and  among  the  pleasantest  memo- 
ries of  our  summer  outing  are  the  friend- 
ships formed  in  these  seven  and  a  half  weeks 
of  travel. 

One  of  the  Five. 


COLLEGE  NOTES 


Ang  Lee  took  her  degree  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  in  August  and  is  now  taking 
a  post-graduate  course  in  Teacher's  College 
at  Columbia.  Our  congratulations  to  her.  She 
should  teach  us  the  rapid  transit  method  of 
going  through  college. 


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Esther  McMaster,  Martha  McLaughlin, 
and  Cornelia  Evans  are  at  Wellesley.  Mary 
and  Sarah  Hopkins  are  at  Mount  Holyoke. 
Katharine  Mulholland  is  at  the  University  of 
Nebraska. 

Elizabeth  Moyer  is  at  Wellesley  for  her  sec- 
ond year,  and  is  majoring  in  pre-medical 
courses. 

Miss  Harriet  Webber,  daughter  of  Ida  Sib- 
ley Webber,  '84,  has  recently  been  appointed 
on  the  musical  faculty  of  Wellesley  College. 


FACULTY  NOTES 


HERE  AND  THERE 


Who  is  this  little 
lad  ?  He  is  Junior 
Dean,  son  of  Eleanor 
Smith  Dean  of  Leba- 
non, Pa.  He  came 
in  a  letter  with  his 
mother's  annual  sub- 
s  c  r  i  p  t  i  o  n  for  the 
Leaves.  Eleanor  saw 
Ethel  Lindstedt  La 
Prade  and  her  small 
boy  of  eight  months 
in  Worcester  last 
summer  and  she  re- 
ports that  they  are 
both  putting  the  re- 
sult of  their  good 
training  at  Lasell  into 
practice  in  their  own 
homes. 
The  name  of  Anne  Wallace,  '83,  is  the  lat- 
est addition  to  the  life  membership  list  of  the 
Lasell  Alumnae  Association.  Who  will  be  the 
next? 

The  lalest  innovation  in  Lasell's  time  sched- 
ule is  the  closing  of  the  week's  work  at  12:10 
on  Saturday  and  beginning  it  at  2  :45  on  Mon- 
day with  a  study  hour  and  Bible  at  3  :30.  This 
.gives  an  opportunity  for  Saturday  afteroon 
football  games  and  other  festivities  and  ban- 
ishes the  old  tradition  of  "one  Bible  cut  a 
year." 


Miss  Rand  is  taking  a  year  for  study  at 
Teacher's  College,  and  Miss  Dolley  is  continu- 
ing her  work  there  again  this  year. 

Miss  Nelson  writes  a  cheery  letter  to  Mrs. 
Barris  telling  of  her  interesting  college  life 
during  the  "rush"  season,  of  the  Junior-Senior 
parade,  football,  etc.  She  is  a  senior  at  Pur- 
due University,  Indiana. 

Mr.  W.  T.  Shepherd  and  his  daughter  Bess 
spent  a  week  with  Miss  Packard  at  Oak  Bluffs 
this  summer.  Miss  Dillingham  was  visiting 
friends  at  the  same  time.  She  is  now  teach- 
ing at  Miss  Porter's  school.  The  Shepherds 
expected  to  meet  Frances  Bragdon  in  New 
York  on  her  way  home  from  overseas. 

After  a  year  of  study  at  Johns  Hopkins, 
Miss  Mount  has  been  doing  some  special  work 
under  Dr.  E.  O.  McCollum,  the  University 
specialist  in  Nutrition,  and  has  now  been  ap- 
pointed the  Director  of  the  Department  of  In- 
stitutional Management  at  Maryland  State 
College. 

Miss  Warner  is  teaching  in  California.  She 
visited  Miss  McKay  on  her  way  to  the  West. 


HERE  IN   1865 


'"The  City  mourns  the  loss  of  Mrs.  Collier." 
Such  is  the  heading  of  a  Dubuque  daily 
thoughtfully  sent  by  Rose  Hoefflin.  The  fol- 
lowing cutting  shows  how  one  of  our  students 
has  through  the  years  won  laurels  for  her 
Alma  Mater.  "Ada  Langworthy  was  educat- 
ed in  the  schools  of  Dubuque  and  the  well- 
known  Lasell  Seminary.  Her  rare  literary 
genius  bore  fruit  early  and  several  works  of 
hers  were  printed  in  the  early  sixties.  From 
that  time  stories,  poems,  essays,  and  reviews 
flowed  from  her  facile  pen.  She  was  active- 
ly connected  with  the  clubs  of  the  city  and 
her  literary  gift  adds  much  to  the  pleasure 
and  profit  of  those  who  shared  her  classes 
and  many  delightful  afternoons  are  remem- 
bered by  those  who  gathered  to  hear  her  read 
one    of    her    original    essays    or    travel    talks. 


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She  was  a  true  "Grande  Dame,"  with  her 
snowy  hair,  sparkling  blue  eyes,  winsome 
smile  and  sweet  and  dignified  manner.  In 
1867  she  married  a  native  of  Scotland,  Mr. 
Robert  W.  Collier.  She  passed  away  at  her 
beautiful  home,  "Bonnie  Brae,"  on  August 
sixth." 


Dr.  Bragdon,  with  his  usual  thoughtfulness, 
sends  us  a  few  "choice  bits"  and  adds,  "Oh, 
dear  old  Lasell !  how  I  want  to  be  there  fight- 
ing." 

Fraulein  Roth  is  still  in  Berkeley.  She  has 
recently  earned  her  Ph.  D.  at  the  University 
at  California. 

Pauline  Collins  Ham  of  Oakland,  always  a 
loyal  and  beautiful  Lasellian,  of  whom  we 
ought  to  be  proud,  has  recently  lost  her  father. 
The  Oakland  daily  speaks  highly  of  him,  not 
only  as  a  leading  business  man,  but  as  active 
in  welfare  work  in  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  during 
the  war. 

Speaking  of  a  letter  received  from  Lulie 
Hogg,  he  pays  her  this  well  deserved  tribute : 
"One  of  the  best  women  Lasell  has  among  its 
alumnae.  Perhaps  no  other  one  has  given  her- 
self more  to  the  interests  of  her  family  circle, 
several  of  whom  have  been  connected  with  La- 
sell. We  cannot  and  would  not  forget  her 
father,  who  sent  three  of  his  daughters  to  our 
school,  for  he  was  one  of  the  finest  men  in 
character  Lasell  ever  numbered  among  her 
friends.  He  was  both  an  author  and  an  edu- 
cator." 


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Vol.  XXXXV      LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS,  NOVEMBER,  1919  No.  2 

Published  Monthly   from   October  to   June    by   the   Lasell    Seminary   Students. 

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Business    Manager  Editor-in-Chief  Subscription    Editor 

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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

The  Race R.  Collin  5 

His  Little  Muwer H.  Brooks  6 

Autumn M.  Perley  8 

Camp  Life B.  Lyons  9 

Our  Hero M.  Patten  10 

EDITORIAL 11 

LOCALS 12 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 14 

PERSONALS ' 15 

JOKES i8 

EXCHANGES 19 

ATHLETICS     .    .    . 20 


THE  LEXINGTON    AND   CONCORD  TRIP 


THE  RACE 


The  day  dawned  cloudy,  instead  of  clear  as 
the  thousands  of  people  who  expected  to  see 
the  wonderful  horse  races  at  the  Hawk  Valle)» 
Fair  had  wished  it  to  dawn.  For  three  days 
now  they  had  flocked  to  the  large  grandstand, 
and  each  day  the  rain  had  come  just  in  time 
to  wet  the  track  and  prevent  the  races.  Now7 
four  days'  races  were  to  he  held  in  one  and 
seats  were  free.  But  most  of  the  weather- 
wise  farmers,  who  scanned  the  horizon  at 
rising,  shook  their  heads  warnjngly.  How- 
ever, the  few  drops  of  rain  that  fell,  just  as 
the  earliest  and  most  eager  watchers  climbed 
into  their  places,  did  not  prevent  more  and 
yet  more  from  coming. 

My  grandfather  and  I  were  not  by  any 
means  the  last  to  arrive,  and  as  we  watched 
the  crowd  from  our  seats  right  across  from 
the  finishing  line,  my  grandfather  muttered, 
"There's  the  biggest  crowd  that's  been  on 
this  grandstand  since  Victory  won  the  stakes 
in  the  2:15  trot  ten  years  ago.  That  was  a 
great  day ;  but  if  Black  Ned  does  as  well  as 
I  expect  him  to,  they'll  have  the  time  of  their 
lives,  whether  they  saw  Victory  come  in  or 
not." 

I  nodded  assent,  for  I  was  busy  watching  a 
black  horse  that  was  being  exercised  in  front 
of  the  stables  a  quarter  of  a  mile  down  the 
track;  but  even  at  that  distance  I  could  see 
that  he  held  his  head  up  higher  and  pranced 


more  proudly  than  the  other  horses.  It  was 
Black  Ned,  a  horse  raised  by  my  grandfather. 
We  had  all  watched  his  growth  and  training 
with  the  utmost  interest,  and  when  my  grand- 
father announced  at  the  breakfast  table  one 
morning  that  Black  Ned  was  to  compete  in 
the  2  :10  trot,  the  great  race  of  all  the  races, 
we  were  keyed  up  to  a  high  pitch  of  excite- 
ment. Every  day  old  Sam,  the  negro  stable- 
man, had  taken  Ned  out  to  practice  and  we 
womenfolk  had  watched  him  swing  up  the 
drive  with  his  powerful  trot,  not  at  all  tired 
after  a  steady  five  miles. 

The  2  :19  pace  was  called  first ;  it  was  won 
by  Belle  Rose,  far  ahead  of  all  the  other  com- 
petitors. The  first  day's  races  were  all  called ; 
then  came  the  second  day's,  the  best  of  the 
four. 

There  were  three  less  important  races  be- 
fore the  2:10  trot.  Grandfather's  head  and 
mine  were  both  turned  toward  the  stable  be- 
fore the  winner  of  the  last  race  had  been  an- 
nounced. Suddenly  a  great  cheer  swept  over 
the  stand,  as  a  big  bay  with  a  white  nose  and 
white  forelegs  trotted  by.  It  was  Maude  B., 
the  winner  of  the  2:10  trot  for  the  year  be- 
fore. In  fact  Maude  B.  had  been  so  success- 
ful everywhere  that  her  owner  had  raced  her 
at  every  fair  in  the  state,  sweeping  in  stakes 
from  each  one.  And  it  was  this  horse  against 
which  we  had  pitted  Black  Ned. 

I  was  aroused  from  my  reveries  by  my 
grandfather's  voice,  "Her  trot  isn't  so  long  as 


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Ned's" — a    reassurance    which    he    had    given 
us  all  a  dozen  times  before. 

There  was  a  cheer  as  Ned  trotted  by  and, 
as  he  swung  around  the  track  with  that  long, 
strong  stride  of  his,  we  could  hear  men  all 
around  us  betting  on  Ned  or  Maude. 

The  very  first  start  was  good;  the  judge 
yelled,  "Go-o,"  and  every  eye  was  strained 
upon  the  six  horses  already  far  out  upon  the 
track.  We  could  see  them  separate — two 
ahead,  then  one,  then  another,  then  two 
abreast  behind.  By  the  time  they  got  around 
the  first  time,  Maude  was  her  own  length 
ahead  of  two  others  abreast.  One  of  these 
was  Black  Ned. 

The  betters  around  us  were  expressing 
themselves  freely.  "They'll  never  gain  what 
they've  lost  this  first  half."  "Maude's  win- 
ning, just  as  she  always  does."  "It's  folly  to 
put  a  green  horse  against  her."  And  again 
all  was  silent. 

The  racers  were  now  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  track.  Suddenly  they  separated;  one 
fell  back  as  if  discouraged,  and  one  kept  on. 
It  was  Maude ;  we  could  see  her  shining  bay 
coat.  I  did  not  look  at  grandfather.  The  dis- 
appointment would  be  too  great.  In  an  in- 
stant Maude  swung  around  the  curve,  and 
with  her,  trotting  neck  on  neck  was  a  black 
horse — Ned.  The  crowd  did  not  breathe. 
They  came  on.  Slowly,  almost  imperceptibly, 
inch  by  inch  Black  Ned  was  gaining.  They 
came  abreast  of  the  grandstand,  and  Maude's 
driver  used  the  whip — great  long  lashes  such 
as  would  spur  any  horse  to  do  his  best,  if 
such  methods  ever  do.  A  rod,  a  yard,  a  foot ; 
they  we're  over — Black  Ned  six  inches  ahead, 
with  his  proud  head  higher  than  ever,  as  he 
gratified  the  trust  that  we  had  put  in  him. 

R.  Collins. 


HIS  LITTLE  MUVVER 


David  was  neglected.  One  look  at  him  was 
enough  to  tell  that,  if  anyone  questioned  it. 
I  doubt  if  there  was  a  dirtier  face  in  the  whole 
alley,  to  say  nothing  of  the  dirt  on  his  clothes. 


He  always  wore  a  shirt  and  trousers  that  ap- 
peared to  have  been  made  for — yes,  and  worn 
by — a  boy  several  sizes  larger  than  his  little 
self.  And  Dan  could  never  remember  a  kind 
word  from  his  "ma,"  a  slack-looking,  loud- 
voiced  woman,  who  delighted  in  making  the 
poor  urchin's,  life  miserable.  From  the  time 
she  shook  him  out  of  his  poor  little  cot  in  the 
morning  and  sent  him  out  into  the  street  with 
only  a  crust  of  bread  and  a  swallow  or  two 
of  weak  tea  in  his  chronically  unsatisfied 
tummy  to  the  time  when,  weary  with  the  trials 
of  the  day,  he  crawled  back  into  that  same 
little  cot  at  night,  never  did  she  call  him 
"sonny,"  never  so  much  as  spoke  his  name 
save  in  a  tone  that  was  itself  almost  a  blow. 

Out  on  the  street  all  day,  although  only  four 
years  old,  David  had  come  to  learn  much  of 
the  alley's  philosophy  of  life — "every  feller 
for  himself,  and  devil  take  the  hindermost" 
The  sight  of  his  big,  brown  eyes  looking  seri- 
ously out  from  his  thin,  white  face  would  have 
made  almost  any  heart  ache — if  anyone  in  the 
alley  had  had  a  heart  capable  of  aching.  All 
day  he  was  in  the  street,  sometimes  playing 
with  other  children  too  young  to  go  to  school, 
sometimes  sitting  on  the  stoop,  solemnly 
watching  the  shabby  people  go  by,  picking  up 
here  and  there  chance-heard  bits  of  their  con- 
versation that  he  would  say  over  and  over  to 
himself  in  a  sort  of  sing-song  fashion,  until 
his  vocabulary  was  a  strange  jumble  of  varie- 
gated slang,  which  he  did  not  know  how  to 
use. 

One  day  some  of  the  neighborhood  chil- 
dren came  to  him  and  shyly  invited  him  to 
go  to  the  "settler's  house"  where  there  was 
a  beautiful  lady  dressed  in  wonderful  clothes 
— "like  something  you  never  seen  before" — 
who  told  stories  about  strange  animals  and  all 
sorts  of  queer  people.  Little  Dave  hardly 
knew  what  to  do.  His  ma  had  warned  him 
not  to  stir  out  of  the  alley  or  she  would  "lick 
the  hide  offen  him,"  and  he  had  no  desire  to 
have  that  happen ;  but  after  listening  to  their 
descriptions  of  all  the  grand  people  they  saw 
there  and  all  the  bully  things  they  had  to  eat, 


LASELL    LEAVES 


lie  decided  there  was  no  use  staying  in  the 
alley,  since  his  ma  would  never  miss  him.  It 
must  certainly  have  been  the  "eats"  that  made 
up  his  mind. 

So  he  went  to  the  settlement  house.  It  was 
all  that  Nina  and  Josie  and  Dan  had  said  it 
would  be,  and  there  were  indeed  several  beau- 
tiful ladies  there.  And  there  was  one  who 
was  not  so  beautiful.  When  she  saw  Dave 
clutching  frantically  at  the  hands  of  Nina 
and  Josie,  she  very  literally  threw  up  her 
hands,  and  exclaimed  all  too  audibly,  "I  de- 
clare !  Where  on  earth  did  that  dirty  little 
boy  come  from !  Never  in  the  wide  world 
have  I  seen  such  a  specimen."  Now  Dave 
didn't  have  the  remotest  idea  what  a  "speci- 
men" was,  but  it  sounded  like  a  very  peculiar 
kind  of  bug,  and  for  that  reason  he  resented 
it.  He  started  to  pull  away,  but  Nina  and 
Josie  had  a  firm  grasp  on  either  hand,  and 
his  attempt  remained  only  an  attempt.  Soon 
they  drew  him  into  a  sort  of  cosy-looking 
class  room,  with  a  circle  of  small  chairs,  and 
one  a  little  larger,  arranged  about  a  fireplace. 
This  was  the  "story  room,"  he  was  told.  Very 
carefully  the  four  children  sat  down  on  the' 
extreme  edges  of  four  of  the  small  chairs,  and 
waited  for  something  to  happen.  Several 
other  children  sidled  in  and  sat  down  gingerly, 
and  all  together  they  sat  there  silently,  not 
any  one  of  them  having  overcome  the  awe 
"  inspired  by  the  lady  who  was  "not  so  beau- 
tiful." Presently  there  came  into  the  room 
a  very  young  lady,  not  beautiful  as  we  would 
say,  but  with  a  shining  face  that  told  of  a 
beautiful  spirit.  She  greeted  all  the  children 
by  name   until   she   came  to   Dave. 

"Hello,  sonny,  what's  your  name?"  she 
asked  brightly. 

"Da-vid,"  he  answered  slowly,  with  a  quick 
little  catch  between  the  syllables. 

"Well,  Dave,  suppose  you  change  seats  with 
Marie,  so  you  can  sit  by  me.  Don't  you  think 
that  would  be  nice  ?" 

Dave  looked  at  her  in  wonder.  This  beau- 
tiful vision  had  called  him  "Sonny,"  and 
wanted  him  to  sit  by  her!     Never  before  had 


he  been  really  wanted  anywhere,  and  it  sure 
did  give  him  a  queer  feeling  inside  to  think 
that  he  was  thus  privileged.  The  other  chil- 
dren looked  at  him  with  envy,  for  Miss 
Browning  was  a  great  favorite.  But  the 
change  was  quickly  made,  and  the  story-telling 
began.  David  listened  solemnly  to  stories  of 
the  Three  B.ears,  Little  Red  Riding-hood,  and 
finally  of  a  little  boy  named  Jesus  Christ. 

The  stories  finished,  the  bright-eyed  story- 
teller told  the  children  she  would  see  what 
she  had  by  way  of  a  surprise  for  them.  She 
took  Dave  by  the  hand  and  led  him  out,  leav- 
ing him  outside  the  door  while  she  went  to 
see  about  the  "surprise."  Then  she  took  him 
into  a  small  room  where  she  sat  down  and 
sewed  a  few  buttons  on  his  ragged  shirt,  all 
the  time  asking  questions  about  his  home, 
which  Dave  answered  very  briefly,  but  with 
such  an  expression  on  his  face  that  Miss 
Browning  did  not  press  very  hard. 

Then  she  took  him  into  a  shiny  white  bath- 
room and  gave  him  such  a  scrubbing  as  he  had 
never  had  in  his  life.  Usually  Dave  very 
much  disliked  being  washed,  even  though  it 
was  only  occasional,  but  Miss  Browning  told 
him  a  story  while  she  was  doing  it,  so  it 
seemed  no  time  at  all  before  she  led  a  dazed 
and  shining  David  back  to  the  group  of  ex- 
pectant children.  Close  on  her  heels  came  a 
queer  looking  tray  with  bowls  of  steaming 
soup,  and  thick  slices  of  delicious  bread,  such 
as  David  had  never  seen  before.  Silently  he 
ate,  and  when  he  was  through,  gravely  said 
goodbye  to  Miss  Browning,  and  as  gravely 
walked  home  with  Nina  and  Josie  and  Dan, 
who  were  all  jabbering  like  monkeys. 

After  that  Dave  went  every  day  to  the 
settlement  house  to  see  the  beautiful  lady  and 
hear  her  stories.  Every  day  Miss  Browning 
called  him  "Sonny"  and  mended  a  new  hole. 
Dave  shyly  responded  to  all  her  advances,  and 
after  some  weeks  began  to  talk  a  little  of  his 
own  accord,  but  only  when  alone  with  her. 
One  day  he  astonished  her  by  asking,  very 
seriously,  "What  is  a  Muvver?" 

"A  mother?    Why,  someone  who  loves  you, 


LASELL   LEAVES 


who  takes  care  of  you,  who  always  tries  to 
keep  you  good  and  who  does  so  many  things 
for  you.    Haven't  you  a  mother?" 

Dave  solemnly  shook  his  head. 

"Why,  Dave,  who  is  'ma'  then?"  she  asked. 

"Ma  ?  Oh,  she's  just  ma,  but  she's  not  muv- 
ver,"  he  replied. 

Miss  Browning  decided  that  here  was  a 
case  to  be  looked  into,  and  after  much  careful 
inquiry  found  out  that  Dave's  "ma"  was  by 
no  means  like  her  definition  of  a  mother.  Also 
that  she  was  not  altogether  honest,  and  al- 
thought  not  yet  "spotted"  by  the  police,  was 
likely  to  be  at  any  time.  So  Miss  Browning 
made  up  her  mind  to  try  to  fill  the  lack  in 
David's  life.  The  very  next  day,  during  their 
little  chat  while  she  was  darning  a  hole  in 
David's  much-worn  stockings,  she  said  softly, 
"Dave,  how  would  you  like  to  have  me  for  a 
mother?  I  love  you  and  I  will  try  to  take 
care  of  you  the  best  I  can.  Do  you  suppose 
you  could  make  believe  I  am  your' mother?" 

Dave's  big  brown  eyes  lit  up.  Miss  Brown- 
ing wanted  to  be  his  "muvver" !  It  seemed 
to  him  that  the  world  was  never  brighter 
than  at  that  time,  when  he  shyly  slipped  his 
hand  in  her's  and  called  her  "muvver." 

One  day  when  Dave  came  back  from  the 
settlement  house  he  found  his  ma  was  miss- 
ing, but  as  that  was  usual,  he  thought  noth- 
ing of  it.  He  got  his  meager  little  meal  called 
"supper,"  and  then  went  to  bed.  But  when 
she  had  not  come  the  next  morning  when  he 
awoke,  and  did  not  come  before  he  went  to 
the  story-telling,  he  knew  something  was 
wrong.  He  told  "Muvver"  of  it,  and  although 
she  looked  worried  for  an  instant,  she  imme- 
diately talked  on  as  though  she  had  not  heard 
it.  A  little  later,  while  Dave  was  feasting 
on  hot  chocolate  with  real  whipped  cream, 
she  slipped  away  for  a  minute.  When  she 
came  back  she  asked  Dave  to  go  home  with 
her.  Dave  thought  of  "ma,"  and  as  if  in 
answer  to  his  thought,  his  "muvver"  said, 
"Your  ma  will  not  be  home  tonight,  so  it 
will  be  better  for  you  to  come  with  me." 

Dave  went,  and  such  a  time  he  had  never 


had  before.  He  saw  a  stately  lady  whom 
Miss  Browning  called  "Mother,"  and  the 
house  was  even  more  beautiful  than  the  set- 
tlement, a  thing  he  had  not  dreamed  was 
possible.  As  in  a  dream  he  heard  Miss  Brown- 
ing explain  something  about  an  accident,  but 
he  was  too  drowsy  to  listen  much.  Finally 
she  asked  him  how  he  would  like  to  live  with 
her  always,  and  at  that  he  was  wide  awake. 
When  he  realized  what  she  had  said,  he  was 
too  happy  for  words,  even  after  she  explained 
that  his  "ma"  had  gone  away,  and  wasn't 
coming  back.  At  last  he  was  to  have  a  "muv- 
ver" for  all  time ! 

Helen  H.  Brooks,  '20. 


AUTUMN 


The  woods  and  a  gun  in  autumn ! 

That's  the  life  I  like  to  lead 
When  leaves  are  the  old  earth's  carpet, 

And  the  golden  rod's  in  seed. 
To   rustle   through   those   heaps   of   leaves, 

Through  forest  and  field  and  farm ! 
I  would  ask  for  nothing  better — 

With  a  gun  under  my  arm. 

My   dog  and  a  gun  in   autumn ! 

Over   brooks   now   dark   and   gray, 
Where  squirrels  frolic,  rabbits  run, 

We  two  make  our  care-free  way. 
Sometimes  we  may  cross  a  cornfield 

With  its  sheaves  of  withered  stalks ; 
And  often  in  the  underbrush 

The  dog  scents  a  skulking  fox. 

Oh  those  crisp,  clear  days  of  autumn ! 

The  best  of  all  the  year. 
Although  song  birds  have  sought  the  south, 

And  the  landscape's  brown  and  sere. 
It's  then  that  orange  sunsets  glow 

In  the  gray  November  sky ; 
And  in  a  V  against  the  clouds 

The   flocks   of   wild  geese   fly. 

The  woods  and  a  gun  in  autumn ! 
We  startle  the  timid  deer ; 


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9 


The  sound  of  a  partridge  drumming, 
And  a  pheasant's  whir  we  hear. 

There  is  not  a  sound  but  Nature's, 
Save  the  rifle's  sharp  report. 

O  such  a  day  spent  in  the  woods 
Is  a  day  of  perfect  sport ! 

M.  Perley,  '20. 


CAMP  LIFE 


When  one  speaks  of  camp,  most  people 
think  only  of  a  summer  spent  in  woods  for 
entertainment,  and  surely  camping  does  af- 
ford a  great  deal  of  diversion ;  but  it  has  also 
another  side,  it  confers  great  benefits,  valu- 
able rewards.  The  life  of  the  camps  is  an 
outdoor  life ;  most  of  the  time  when  the  weath- 
er permits  is  spent  in  the  open.  It  is,  again, 
a  regular  life;  one  eats  and  sleeps  by  schedule, 
and  keeps  early  hours.  It  is  furthermore  a 
strenuous  life;  there  is  something  to  do  every 
minute  of  the  day,  and  the  person  who  tires 
easily  does  not  fare  very  well.  The  being  out- 
of-doors  a  great  part  of  the  time,  the  regu- 
larity of  the  hours,  and  the  constant,  varied, 
and  energetic  exercise  it  calls  for,  all  tend  to 
keep  one  strong  and  in  good  health.  Besides 
this,  camp  has  also  its  educational  side.  There 
are  instructors  for  all  of  the  various  sorts  of 
athletics  as  well  as  instructors  in  academic 
work,  so  that  one  may  not  only  keep  the  body 
in  trim  but  the  mind  also. 

Camp  affords  a  wonderful  opportunity  for 
forming  friendships  and  has  a  great  deal  to 
do  with  the  formation  of  character  in  the 
girl  or  boy ;  for  one  is  influenced  by  his 
friends  as  well  as  judged  by  them.  Friend- 
ship plays  an  important  part  among  the  for- 
mative agencies  of  a  camp,  so  important,  in- 
deed, that  the  desirableness  of  any  given  camp 
may  be  determined  largely  by  the  kind  of 
associations  it  offers.  Now  a  genuine  friend- 
ship, once  formed,  is  life-long,  even  though 
the  friends  may  be  separated  by  thousands  of 
miles  or  may  even  never  meet  again.  Add 
now  the  counsellors  and  instructors  whom  the 
camp  provides,  and  if  they  are  such  as  their 


charges  can  look  up  to  and  revere,  they  may 
have  a  great  influence  on  the  life  of  the  indi- 
vidual camper. 

Camp  life  frequently  makes  radical  changes 
in  the  character  of  its  charges.  For  instance, 
there  arrives  at  camp,  let  us  say,  the  spoiled 
darling  of  very  wealthy  parents,  a  very  selfish 
girl,  one  used  to  having  her  own  way.  At  the 
end  of  the  summer  you  will  in  most  cases  find 
her  much  changed,  and  for  the  better,  if  the 
camp  is  in  good  hands;  the  influences  of  her 
associations  and  surroundings  have  given  her 
a  new  point  of  view.  Take,  again,  the  case 
of  the  quiet,  timid  girl.  Being  with  other  girls 
gradually  cures  her  of  her  self-consciousness, 
and  she  becomes  as  spontaneously  and  health- 
ily social  as  other  girls. 

Among  especially  delightful  camp  pleasures 
are  the  over-night  canoe  trips  and  the  long 
hikes,  both  of  which  are  certainly  profitable 
and  pleasurable.  On  such  occasions  one  leaves 
camp,  taking  bedding  and  food  for  several 
days  and  doesn't  see  camp  again  till  the  pre- 
appointed day  of  return,  meanwhile  sleep- 
ing out  under  the  trees  or  by  the  water's  edge, 
walking  or  paddling  all  day  long,  stopping 
here  or  there  just  long  enough  to  cook  and 
eat  the  usual  meals,  or  for  an  over-night  stay. 
It  is  incomparable  fun  to  cook  over  an  open 
fire,  and  it  teaches  one  how  to  build  a  camp- 
er's fire  as  well  as  how  to  cook  a  camper's 
meal — both  accomplishments  of  no  mean  or- 
der. 

Camp  life  teaches  a  great  many  other  les- 
sons, too.  Among  the  most  valuable  of  these 
is  promptness ;  one  must  respond  to  the  bugle 
immediately  upon  its  call.  Another  is  neat- 
ness ;  the  bungalow  must  be  straightened  up 
and  one's  clothes  must  be  mended.  A  third 
is  patience ;  it  often  takes  a  good  deal  of  work 
before  a  lesson  is  mastered.  Swimming  is  a 
good  example  of  this.  Another,  and  perhaps 
the  greatest  of  camp  lessons  is  self-reliance. 
You  are  far  away  from  home  and  mother,  and 
cannot  depend  upon  her  to  do  this  or  that  for 
you,  or  to  settle  your  knotty  questions ;  there- 
fore it  is  up  to  you  to  do  these  things   for 


10 


LASELL   LEAVES 


yourself,  otherwise  they  will  remain  undone. 
One  who  has  never  been  a  member  of  a 
summer  camp  can  hardly  know  how  much 
has  thereby  been  missed ;  no  mere  enumera- 
tion of  benefits  will  make  it  plain.  Only  by 
being  a  camper  can  you  realize  the  pleasures 
and  advantages  of  such  a  life. 

Bernice  Lyon,  '20. 


OUR  HERO 


(Incident  from  October  Ladies'  Home  Jour- 
nal. ) 
It  happened  in  the  Argonne  once, 

This  most  surprising  thing — 
And  shows  us  that,  when  humans  fail 

A  dog  may  victory  bring. 

Cut  off  from  all  support  we  were, 

With  aid  three  miles  away ; 
Across  this  open  ground  no  man 

Could  hope  to  pass  that  day. 

A  message  to  a  collie's  neck 

We  tied,  with  beating  heart ; 
And,  lifting  him  above  the  trench, 

Watched  our  last  hope  depart. 

Then    swiftly   toward   the   distant   ridge, 

He  swept,  a  golden  streak, 
Seeming  to  take  as  fun  the  shots 

Which  sped  his  life  to  seek. 

A  glorious  race  with  death  it  was, 

The  bullets  spatting  round ; 
Two  thousand  yards  he  sped  along, 

His  body  close  to  ground. 

And  without  warning,  high  he  leaped, 

As  checked  in  mid  career ; 
He  fell  to  earth,  a  silent  heap, 

And  we  held  our  breath  in  fear. 

But  now  the  dog  was  up  again, 

And,  bleeding,  staggered  on ; 
The  foe  redoubled  his  attempts 

To  shoot  the  collie  down. 


One    moment    outlined    'gainst   the   sky, 

Then  fell  he  and  lay  still ; 
But  soon  we  cried  aloud,  "He  lives ! 

Our  dog  they  thought  to  kill!" 

He  reached  the  officer  at  last 

To  whom  he  had  been  sent, 
And  dying,  feebly  licked  his  hand — 

His  hero  life  was  spent. 

That  day,  the  dog  a  regiment  saved, 

.  And  only  gave — his  life  ! 
May  we  not  hope  that  he  has  found 
A  good  dog's  paradise? 

M.  Patten. 


AT   THE  CONCORD   BRIDGE 


Now  is  our  chance  to  become  acquainted, 
to  make  our  new  friends  ;  do  not  wait  until 
the  latter  part  of  our  school  year.  In  June 
we  always  hear  "Oh,  if  we  had  only  known 
each  other  the  first  of  the  year !"  or,  "I  didn't 
know  what  a  wonder  she  was !" 

This  year  our  school  is  larger  than  ever 
before ;  therefore  each  one  must  do  her  part, 
if  we  are  to  be  one  big  family  as  in  previous 
years.  To  help  us,  a  plan  has  been  devised 
by  which  ten  Seniors  have  luncheon  and  din- 
ner at  Woodland  Park — two  weeks  at  a  time. 
This  makes  it  possible  for  ten  of  our  Wood- 
land Park  girls  to  have  luncheon  in  Bragdon. 
Is  this  not  a  splendid  plan?  It  will  not  only 
help  us  to  know  one  another  better,  but  also 
will  help  the  new  girls  to  become  familiar  with 
our  customs,  such  as  the  singing  of  grace  at 
dinner,  and  school  songs. 

Help  girls,  every  one  of  you,  to  do  away 
with  cliques  and  to  make  our  school,  more 
than  ever  before,  seem  like  one  large  family. 


"OTHERS'* 


How  many  noticed  the  small  "others" 
printed  under  the  flag  on  the  missionary 
pledge   cards?     Did  you    stop   to   think   how 


much  is  expressed  in  this  one  little  word  and 
how  great  a  symbol  it  is  for  us?  It  stands 
for  service,  loyalty,  generosity,  thoughtful- 
ness,  sacrifice,  and  most  of  all,  forgetfulness 
of  self.  "Others"  means  all  those  with  whom 
we  are  associated,  not  only  the  few  whom  we 
care  most  for,  but  everyone  we  meet.  The 
girl  who  always  has  a  smile,  and  a  "Good 
morning"  for  everyone,  who  aims  to  please 
and  not  to  be  pleased,  she  is  the  one  think- 
ing of  "others."  She  is  not  only  happy  her- 
self, but  makes  all  those  around  her  happy 
also ;  and  her  influence  and  spirit  is  so  strong- 
ly felt  that  everyone  says,  "She  is  a  real  girl, 
a  girl  worth  while — a  typical  Lasell  girl." 


AFTER  ALL 


After  all,  it's  the  girl  with  a  will 

Who  knows  no  ill, 

The  girl  who  can  please 

With  graceful  ease, 

The  girl  who  can  work 

While  others  shirk, — 

After  all,  it's  the  girl  with  a  smile 

Who's  the  girl  worth  while ! 

G.  Burnet,  '20. 


Mr.   Towne,   our  Associate  Principal,  gave 
a  talk  on  Americanization  at  vespers  October 
12.     This  is  a  subject  to  which  he  has  given 
much  thought  and  study  during  the  last  two 
years.     He  made  it  clear  that  the  word  im- 
plies the  brotherhood  of  man.     This   feeling 
was  fostered  by  the  great  war;  for  men  then 
came  to  understand  and  to  value  those  outside 
their   own   class.     There  .was  a   lessening  of 
the  sense  of  superiority,  felt  by  those  whose 
ancestors  happened  to  get  to  this  country  early 
over  those  who  more  recently  sought  homes 
in  the  land  of  promise.     Americanism  means 
the  constant  searching  for  better  things',  and 
the. bringing  of  these  within  the  reach  of  all. 
It  seeks  to  put  into  our  national  life  the  spirit 
of  the  divine  Master.     Mr.  Towne  illustrated 
several  of  his  points  by  reading  some  telling 
poems  by  present-day  writers. 

How  well  the  cool,  brisk  day  of  October  20 
will  be  remembered  by  the  Concord-Lexington 
party !  Two  auto  trucks,  full  of  happy,  gay, 
Lasell  girls  pulled  out  at  nine-thirty,  three 
more  following  at  ten  o'clock.  The  first  stop 
was  at  the  Hancock-Clark  House  in  Lexing- 
ton. Here  was  shown  the  room  where  Samuel 
Adams  and  John  Hancock  were  sleeping  when 
aroused  by  Paul  Revere  on  April  19,  1775,  as 
well  as   other   rooms   full   of   valuable   relics. 


The  next  stop  was  at  the  spot  from  which  the 
first  shot  was  fired,  starting  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Glancing  over  the  green,  seeing  the 
several  cannon  and  monuments  there,  one 
could  not  help  thinking  of  those  heroic  men 
who  laid  down  their  lives  so  nobly  for  the 
very  same  principles  which  America  and  her 
Allies  have  fought  to  preserve. 

Both  parties  met  at  the  Louisa  Alcott  home, 
upon  the  lawn  of  which  we  enjoyed  our  abun- 
dant lunch.     Later  a  guide  showed  us  through 
the  house  even  to  the  attic,  where  Miss  Alcott 
used  to   write  her   famous   stories.     Concord 
bridge  was  the  next  place  of  interest.     Many 
photographed  the  fine   statue   of   the  Minute 
Man    standing    at    the    end    of    the    bridge. 
Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery  was  also  visited,  for 
here  may  be  seen  the  graves  of  Louisa  Al- 
cott,    Hawthorne,     Emerson,     and     Thoreau. 
Last  but  not  least  was  the  sight  of  the  stone 
pile,  erected  by  all  who  admire  and  visit  the 
spot  where  Thoreau's  house  once  stood.     We 
ought  not  to   fail  to  mention  those  luscious, 
large  red  apples,  so  generously  provided   for 
us  at  the  Gravenstein  Farm.     In  fact  all  the 
details  of  the  trip  had  been  so  planned  that 
we   were   made   merry   as   well   as    better-in- 
formed. 

On  Thursday  afternoon,  October  30,  dur- 


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ing  our  lecture  period  Professor  Rice  of  The 
Powers  School  of  the  Spoken  Word  talked 
to  us  on  the  subject  of  the  League  of  Nations. 
Professor  Rice  said  that  the  League  of  Na- 
tions concerned  every  citizen  of  the  United 
States  but  should  concern  more  particularly 
the  people  of  the  younger  generation,  the  men 
and  women  of  the  future  day.  He  spoke 
especially  of  several  senators  and  politicians 
who  are  trying  to  control  what  the  people 
think  and  are  working  strongly  against  the 
League.  He  also  compared  the  -covenant  to 
the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  because  it  expressed 
the  idea  of  the  brotherhood  of  man  in  inter- 
national law.  President  Wilson  in  a  moment 
of  inspiration  saw  the  possibility  and  put  on 
paper  the  idea  of  a  world  of  peace  and  co- 
operation for  all  nations. 

Professor  Rice  divided  the  opponents  of  the 
League  into  two  classes:  those  who  will  not 
see ;  and  those  who  can  not  see.  The  former, 
he  said,  are  exasperating  and  are  not  worth 
arguing  with.  The  latter  are  pitiable  and 
should  be  taught  to  see.  Mr.  Rice  closed  by 
saying  that  whether  or  not  the  League  of 
Nations  is  accepted,  future  generations  will 
bless  Wilson  for  the  splendid  ideal  which  he 
had  in  mind. 

On  Saturday  evening,  November  1,  the  an- 
nual Hallowe'en  dance  was  held  in  the  gym- 
nasium for  the  entire  school.  All  were  asked 
to  come  in  fancy  dress.  In  fact,  it  was  an- 
nounced beforehand  that  a  prize  would  be 
awarded  to  the  girl  wearing  the  most  unique 
costume.  Upon  the  arrival  of  the  guests  at 
the  door  of  Bragdon,  they  saw  a  sign  which 
guided  them  in  a  roundabout  "dark  way  to  the 
gymnasium.  Along  the  route  many  scares  in 
the  form  of  witches  and  ghosts  awaited  them. 

The  gymnasium  was  decorated  with  Jack-o- 
lanterns  and  cornstalks.  A  four  piece  orches- 
tra furnished  the  music  for  dancing.  After  a 
few  numbers,  the  girls  formed  by  twos  in  a 
large  circle  and  marched  around  the  hall  in 
front  of  the  judges  for  the  costumes.  The 
prize  was  awarded  to  Elsie  Crowell  who  was 
dressed  as  Topsy  and  who  walked  bravely  to 


the  stage '  for  her  box  of  candy.  Punch, 
doughnuts,  marshmallows,  and  apples  were 
generously  served.  The  evening  was  voted  a 
great  success. 

On  the  afternoon  of  Saturday,  November 
1,  about  fifty  Lasell  girls  attended  the  Har- 
vard-Springfield game.  Although  the  visi- 
tors played  a  strong  game,  the  score  was 
Harvard  20,  Springfield  0.  Those  who  went 
reported  a  very  good  time. 

Sunday  evening,  November  2,  Dr.  Butters 
of  the  local  Methodist  church  led  the  vesper 
service.  His  text  was,  "Speak  no  evil  one 
of  another."  He  showed  us  how  easily  and 
almost  unconsciously  one  is  apt  to  speak  un- 
charitably of  another.  But  he  also  urged  us 
to  overcome  this  tendency  by  thinking  first 
of  the  harm  caused  to  others  by  saying  unkind 
things,  and  secondly  of  the  injury  done  to 
ourselves. 

A  number  of  girls  went  to  Symphony  Hall 
on  the  evening  of  October  29  to  see  a  re- 
markable pageant,  The  Women  of  the  Na- 
tions, given  in  connection  with  the  recent 
great  Methodist  Conference  in  Boston.  The 
music  was  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  George 
Dunham.  This  together  with  the  effective 
stage  settings  and  costumes  made  the  presen- 
tation impressive  and  beautiful. 

Vespers  Sunday  evening,  October  12th,  was 
led  by  the  Rev.  Grant  Person  of  Newton.  He 
spoke  to  us  concerning  the  age  to  come  and 
the  part  America  is  to  play  in  this  age.  He 
said  that  the  war  had  recently  claimed  our  at- 
tention and  that  all  of  America's  resources 
had  been  put  to  the  discovery  of  new  inven- 
tions. He  likened  this  country  to  a  man  com- 
ing from  a  valley  to  the  top  of  a  hill,  with  a 
broad  stretch  of  beautiful  country  before  him. 
The  valley  is  the  past,  full  of  discoveries  and 
achievements ;  and  the  hill,  the  future  with 
its  spiritual  attainments.  He  also  spoke  of 
the  spirit  of  co-operation  which  not  only  Amer- 
ica but  also  the  whole  world  had  learned 
through  the  great  war — co-operation  and  sac- 
rifice, of  individual  for  individual,  and  of  na- 
tion  for  nation.     Mr.    Person  left  these  two 


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words  as  the  keynotes  of  his  talk,  "Spiritual- 
ity" and  "Co-operation." 

Christian  Endeavor  on  October  17,  was 
held  at  Woodland  Park.  The  meeting  was 
led  by  one  of  the  new  girls,  Dorothy  Shove. 
She  read  a  helpful  poem  entitled  "My  Task" : 
a  song,  given  by  Helen  Cressy,  added  very 
much  to  the  service. 

October  24  the  Christian  Endeavor  meeting 
was  led  by  Dorothy  Balch.  She  read  a  poem 
written  by  Elizabeth  Otis,  called  "An  If  for 
Girls,"  then  spoke  briefly  on  the  spirit  of  the 
girls  in  our  school.  She  put  strong  emphasis 
on  the  importance  of  holding  strictly  to  the 
rules.  At  the  close  of  the  talk,  Helen  Bal- 
com  favored  us  with  a  song. 

At  Vespers  on  October  26th  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Drew  of  the  Auburndale  Congregational 
Church  gave  us  a  wonderful  address.  He 
took  as  his  subject  "The  Nearness  of  God," 
and  began  by  saying  that  as  children  we  feel 
more  fully  the  nearness  of  His  presence.  As 
we  grow  older,  however,  that  consciousness 
fades.  In  order  that  it  may  not  fade,  we  are 
to  remember  that  God  is  within  us.  Dr. 
Drew  gave  us  three  keywords  for  our  lives. 
The  first  is  "beauty,"  to  find  which  we  should 
commit  something  beautiful  to  memory  every 
day,  do  some  good  deed  every  day  and  look 
for  some  beautiful  thing.  The  second  key^ 
word  is  "right,"  by  which  is  meant  not  swerv- 
ing from  the  straight  path.  The  third  word 
is  "guidance."  In  the  past  we  have  been 
guided  by  our  parents  and  our  schools  and 
in  the  future  we  must  be  guided  by  God.  The 
closing  words  summed  up  the  whole, talk;  "He 
that  doeth  the  will  of  my  Father,  he  shall 
know  the  way  into  the  larger  and  higher  life 
of  service." 

October  25  a  party  went  to  see  the  game 
between  Harvard  and  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia which  resulted  in  an  easy  victory  for 
the  Cambridge  men.  One  man  from  the  home 
team  was  withdrawn,  while  several  from  the 
visiting  team  were  forced  to  retire.  Many 
long  runs  were  scored  by  the  Harvard  back- 
field  men   as  the   result  of  the   excellent  co- 


ordination and  interfering  in  which  the  Vir- 
ginians were  completely  shut  out  of  the  play. 
The  blocking  and  interfering  of  the  Crim- 
son team  was  extraordinarily  good.  In  fact,  it 
was  reported  by  critics  as  being  closer  to  per- 
fection than  at  any  time  heretofore  this  sea- 
son. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  two  of  the  veteran 
stars  were  absent,  it  was  demonstrated  at  the 
stadium  Saturday  that  the  backfield  material 
could  present  an  exceedingly  formidable  ap- 
pearance behind  the  lines.  The  southern  team 
was  severely  handicapped  in  the  first  place, 
in  having  a  less  substantial  team  than  that 
of  its  opponent,  and,  secondly,  it  was  greatly 
weakened  by  the  forced  withdrawal  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  men  during  the  struggle. 

Although  the  ability  of  the  Harvard  men 
would  scarcely  be  judged  by  this  game,  it 
gives  them  one  more  victory  with  which  to 
face  and  win  the  most  important  game  of  all, 
that  of  November  the  twenty-second. 

On  Friday  afternoon  October  31,  the  Sen- 
iors had  open  house  at  both  Carpenter  and 
Gardner  halls.  The  officers  of  the  class  and 
the  house  teachers  were  in  the  receiving  line. 
Dainty  refreshments  were  served  at  both 
houses  and  the  rooms,  which  had  feen  put  in 
apple-pie  order,  were  inspected  and  admired 
by  a  large  number  of  guests. 

Christian  Endeavor  on  Friday  evening, 
October  31  was  led  by  Lillian  Doane.  She 
gave  a  very  interesting  talk  about  supersti- 
tions. Helen  Balcom  added  to  the  service  by 
her  singing. 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 


On  Thursday,  Oct.  23rd,  Grades  V,  VI, 
VII,  and  VIII  had  a  day  at  Lexington  and 
Concord.  They  were  accompanied  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Towne,  Mrs.  McDonald,  Mrs.  Fur- 
long and  Miss  Strang.  The  day  was  warm 
and  sunny,  seemingly  made  purposely  for  our 
pleasure. 

After  visiting  the  battle  ground  at  Lexing- 
ton and  spending  some  time  at  the  John  Han- 


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cock  House,  we  went  over  the  road  made 
memorable  by  the  march  of  armies,  and 
stopped  at  the  Alcott  House.  Here  on  the 
grass  we  had  a  jolly  luncheon  party  and  then 
spent  over  an  hour  in  the  Orchard  House — 
so  full  of  memories  of  "Jo"  and  her  sisters. 
We  then  went  on  to  North  Bridge  and  Sleepy 
Hollow  Cemetery,  finishing  our  day  of  happy 
interest  with  a  visit  to  Thoreau's  Cairn. 

On  Sunday  evening,  Oct.  26th,  we  enjoyed 
a  visit  from  Mrs.  Lillie  Fuller  Merriam,  La- 
sell  '86.  She  was  accompanied  by  her  hus- 
band and  her  daughter,  Miss  Virginia  Mer- 
riam, who  is  now  a  student  at  Wellesley.  Mrs. 
Merriam  entertained  us  by  reading  from  her 
book  of  children's  stories.  They  had  espe- 
cial interest  since  the  heroine  of  all  these 
stories — little  Jennie — was  no  other  than  Miss 
Virginia  when  she  was  a  little  girl. 

Hallowe'en  is  surely  a  jolly  holiday !  Our 
Assembly  Room  looked  like  a  Goblin's  house 
when  we  were  allowed  to  enter  on  Saturday 
evening,  Nov.  1st.  Miss  Bunting,  Bessie  Sav- 
age and  Erna  Schmidt  were  our  hostesses  and 
gave  us  a  very  original  and  happy  party.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towne 
called  on  us  during  the  evening  and  were  in- 
itiated into  some  of  the  mysteries  of  Ghost 
and  Goblin  land.  Some  of  the  parents  of  our 
day  pupils  also  came  to  us  and  renewed  their 
youth  by  entering  into  the  games  and  dances. 

Donald  was  absent  one  day.  When  Fran- 
ces noticed  it  she  said,  "Miss  Norton,  when 
Donald  is  absent  it  feels  as  if  several  people 
were  absent." 

The  children  in  the  Kindergarten  were 
having  a  bird  song  and  game.  Miss  Nichols 
entered  the  game  with  wings  outspread  and 
Austin  exclaimed,  "Now  the  Mother  bird  is 
flying  too." 

Miss  Edith  C.  Arey  of  Salem  is  added  to 
our  teaching  staff.  Miss  Arey  comes  to  us 
from  the  Mason  School  in  Newton.  Besides 
teaching  at  Woodland  Park,  Miss  Arey  is  to 
assist  Miss  Witherbee  in  the  English  Depart- 
ment. 

We  had  a  delightful  visit  on  November  8th 


and  9th  from  Miss  Olive  G.  Gibson,  Dean 
of  the  Schauffler  Institute  for  Christian  Ser- 
vice Training  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Miss  Gib- 
son spoke  to  the  Woodland  Park  teachers  and 
pupils  on  Sunday  morning  in  the  Blue  Room. 
She  is  travelling  at  present  lecturing  on 
"Americanization."  In  her  school  in  Cleve- 
land Miss  Gibson  has  young  women  from 
fourteen  different  nations. 


Lasell  wedding  bells  never  cease  their  ring- 
ing and  the  joyous  notes  come  to  us  from  all 
parts  of  our  ain  countrie. 

On  September  twenty-second,  Edna  Kauff- 
man,  '11,  was  united  in  marriage  to  Paul  B. 
Binder.  After  December  first  they  will  be 
at  home  at  1392  Perkiomen  Ave.,  Reading, 
Pennsylvania. 

Lillian  May  Astill  and  Mr.  Stanley  Scho- 
field  Ainsworth  were  united  in  marriage  on 
the   fourteenth  of  October. 

Alice  Browning  Jenks,  '17,  became  the  bride 
of  Mr.  Leon  Edgar  Nickerson  on  the  eigh- 
teenth of  October. 

On  October  twenty-fifth  Mary  Roxana 
Stark  and  Mr.  Henry  Roberts  Burns  were 
united  in  marriage.  They  are  at  home  in 
Clarksville,  Missouri. 

November  the  first  was  the  wedding  day  of 
Ethel  Ramage,  '19,  and  Raymond  F.  Fisk. 
They  will  make  their  home  in  St.  Johnsbury, 
Vermont. 

The  wedding  of  Elsie  Arlene  Bigwood  and 
Mr.  Harold  John  Cooney  took  place  on  No- 
vember the  tenth.     After  January   first  they 


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will  be  at  home  at  16  Irving  St.,  Spencer, 
Mass. 

November  the  eighteenth  was  the  wedding 
day  of  Mildred  Anne  Williams  when  she  be- 
came Mrs.  Charles  Judson  Lawson. 

Lasell's  best  congratulations  are  extended 
to  these  Lasell  brides  and  grooms. 

Our  Principal,  Dr.  Winslow,  and  Mrs. 
Winslow  are  off  for  Porto  Rico  for  a  three 
weeks'  trip.  Lasell's  very  best  wishes  go 
with  them.  We  will  eagerly  watch  for  their 
return. 

In  a  letter  just  received  from  Lillian  Bueh- 
ner  Ladd  we  learn  that  she  is  the  proud 
mother  of  a  little  daughter  just  a  few  weeks 
old  whom  she  has  named  after  her  sister 
Meta  Buehner  Noble,  '06.  She  expresses 
great  regret  at  not  having  met  the  Lasell 
party  this  summer  in  Portland,  Oregon,  but 
declares  her  husband  had  a  good  word  to  say 
about  us.  We  are  delighted  to  hear  that 
Mrs.  Buehner  is  gaining.  We  were'  very  much 
interested  in  Lillian's  question,  "Now  I  have 
two  daughters,  Martha,  four  and  one-half 
,  years  old  and  Meta.  I  wonder  if  they  some 
day  will  go  to  Lassell  ?"  Our  loving  con- 
gratulations to  this  dear  Oregon  Lasell  girl 
and  her  family. 

Could  there  be  a  more  attractive  name  than 
the  one  given  by  Susan  Tiffany,  '15,  to  her 
Springfield  home,  "The  Playhouse"  ?  We  are 
hoping  some  day  to  accept  her  cordial  invita- 
tion to  turn  aside  and  rest  and  play  a  while 
with  this  dear  graduate. 

In  a  kind  letter  which  our  Miss  Witherbee 
received  from  Marion  Briggs  she  writes, 
"Christina  is  just  leaving  us  for  home  after 
a  short  visit.  She  sends  her  love  to  you. 
George  Briggs  Murphy,  her  little  son,  would, 
too,  I  think  if  he  understood.  At  least  he 
would  give  you  one  of  his  charming  tooth- 
less grins  for  which  he  is  famous.  Christina 
seems  to  thoroughly  enjoy  her  home  and  fam- 
ily." Those  of  us  who  are  favored  occasion- 
ally by  receiving  one  of  Marion's  original  and 
charming  letters  wish  very  much  she  would 
use  her  literary  gifts  for  the  benefit  of  a 
larger  circle.  She  certainly  has  unusual  tal- 
ent. 


There  have  never  been  sweeter  baby  pic- 
tures sent  to  Lasell  than  those  of  Annie  Mer- 
rill David's,  '12,  children.  Merrill,  the  baby, 
is  simply  edible  while  dear  Martha  is  a  quaint 
little  Vermont  lady,  dear  and  dainty.  In  this 
letter  to  Miss  Witherbee  she  tells  us  that  her 
sister  Helen  Merrill  Strohecker,  '16,  and  fam- 
ily are  living  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  She 
writes,  "My  husband,  assisted  by  Florence 
Jones,  '12,  escorted  my  family  and  me  to  Ver- 
mont in  time  for  Mildred  Hall's,  '12,  wedding 
and  it  was  a  lovely  affair.  Mildred  was  a 
beautiful  bride.  Clara  Parker,  '12,  Florence 
and  Margaret  Jones,  '11,  were  the  Lasell 
bridesmaids  and  I  was  the  matron  of  honor. 
Mildred  and  her  husband,  Dr.  Leber,  are  go- 
ing to  live  in  New  York  City.  'Betty'  Mar- 
tin also  lives  in  Upper  Montclair  and  we  have 
had  some  good  times  together." 

Dorothy  Smith  came  in  unexpectedly  and 
during  our  conversation  we  found  that  she 
was  an  old  time  friend  of  our  Carol  Slocum 
of  this  year.  We  strongly  advised  her  to 
come  back  to  Lasell  and  regain  some  of  the 
good  pounds  she  enjoyed  while  here.  She 
has  promised  to  be  more  neighborly  in  the 
coming  months. 

What  a  joy  it  was  to  see  our  Miss  Grace 
Irwin  face  to  face !  She  made  a  very  formal 
visit  but  we  believe  we  succeeded  in  getting  a 
promise  that  she  would  come  again  as  soon 
as  possible. 

Laura  Hale,  '16,  is  still  a  successful  busi- 
ness woman  but  took  time  enough  from  her 
work  to  come  home  for  an  hour  or  two  to  our 
great  delight.  She  reports  Emily  and  Marion, 
'10,  both  well. 

Charlotte  Swartwout,  '14,  Mary  Fenno,  '13, 
and  Ruth  Coulter  Bierer,  '12,  returned  home 
for  a  few  hours.  Those  who  had  the  privi- 
lege of  meeting  the  girls  declared  that  they 
were  as  enthusiastic  and  dear  as  ever.  We 
certainly  are  happy  when  our  faithful  alumna? 
return  for  even  a  short  visit. 

The  Lasell  girls  of  later  years  always  hail 
with  delight  the  annual  coming  of  Mr.  Frank 
Palmer  Speare  who  brings  with  him  such  an 
inspiring  message  and  Lasell  girls  of  a  little 
farther  back  will  remember  his  charming  wife, 


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Katherine  Vinton  Speare.  They  are  to  be 
congratulated  especially  at  this  time  as  they 
are  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of  a  little  daughter 
Marjorie. 

Among  the  other  Lasell  folk  who  have  been 
similarly  blessed  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Randolph 
W.  Turnbull  (Dale  Whipple,  '16)  who  have 
a  daughter  Rosamond  Frances  born  October 
15th. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarence  D.  Bresee  (Beulah 
Coward)  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth  of  a  son, 
Robert  Coward  Bresee,  on  October  21st. 

A  daughter  has  come  to  bless  the  home  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  R.  Barker  (Margaret  Greg- 
son). 

Now  and  then  these  days  if  one  glances  into 
Miss  Hutchins'  offices  he  will  see  a  dear  curly 
haired  child  bending  over  the  typewriter.  She 
is  none  other  than  our  own  Marjorie  Winslow 
fast  recovering  her  usual  good  health  and  busy 
learning  to  typewrite.  Some  of  us  have  seen 
her  work  and  it  is  really  remarkable  when  we 
remember  what  a  short  time  she  has  been  "at 
the  machine." 

After  all  Helen  Marie  Houghton,  '16,  is 
coming  back  to  Auburndale  as  a  resident. 
This  all  came  about  through  the  successful 
overtures  of  Mr.  Robert  Phelps  Gilman.  The 
announcement  of  their  engagement  has  just 
been  received  and  we  acknowledge  it  extend- 
ing our  congratulations  to  both  of  these 
friends. 

Frances  Wieder,  '19,  gave  us  a  pleasant 
surprise  recently  by  announcing  her  engage- 
ment to  Maurice  Hartman,  a  cousin  of  our 
Frances  Hartman.  Our  hearty  congratula- 
tions to  Frances  Wieder. 

The  Art  students  were  recently  favored  by 
an  invitation  from  Miss  Mary  Augusta  Mulli- 
kin  to  visit  her  new  Boston  studio.  While 
enjoying  the  paintings  we  chanced  to  meet 
there  Gertrude  Tingley  who  told  us  the  inter- 
esting news  that  she  is  soon  to  give  a  concert 
in  Jordan  Hall  in  Boston.  We  rejoice  over 
her  continued  progress. 

A  very  interesting  letter  was  sent  recently 


to  Lasell  from  Hilland,  South  Dakota.  The 
message  was  written  by  Mrs.  H.  A.  Benson 
(Susanne  Baker,  '91).  Mrs.  Benson,  as  she 
expressed  it  in  her  note,  homesteaded  there 
and  has  found  it  a  very  interesting  and  profit- 
able venture.  She  is  now  the  mother  of  six 
children,  three  boys  and  three  girls.  She  is 
principal  of  the  Cottonwood  High  School  and 
is  anxious  to  obtain  a  life  certificate  and  so 
sent  back  to  her  Alma  Mater  for  her  credits. 
Her  life  on  the  prairies  must  indeed  be  a 
unique  experience.  She  tells  us  at  the  close 
of  her  letter  that  her  home  is  forty  miles  from 
the  railroad. 

A  gracious  message  came  to  our  Precep- 
tress from  Mary  Wadsworth  expressing  the. 
regret  that  she  and  her  family  did  not  meet 
the  Lasell  party  during  their  sojourn  in  Pasa- 
dena.   The  disappointment  was  mutual. 

Helen  Howe  and  Marion  Harvey  called  at 
the  Seminary  recently.  Both  were  well  and 
Marion  was  especially  happy  in  her  new  work. 
She  is  at  present  training  in  the  Newton  Hos- 
pital and  is  enthusiastic  over  her  chosen  pro- 
fession. Helen  expressed  her  delight  at  meet- 
ing the  new  girls  in  her  old  home,  Clark  Cot- 
tage, and  was  much  impressed  with  their  cor- 
diality. She  expressed  her  interest  by  sending 
back  her  subscription  to  the  Lasell  Leaves. 
She  writes,  "You  will  be  interested  to  learn 
that  I  have  heard  from  Ruth  Straight,  '17, 
and  she  tells  me  she  expects  to  come  to  Bos- 
ton in  June.  I  am  delighted."  And  so  are 
we,  Helen. 

Dr.  Bragdon  sends  a  notice  of  the  death  of 
George  A.  Collins  of  Oakland,  father  of  Paul- 
ine Collins  (Mrs.  R.  K.  Ham)  who  has  al- 
ways been  a  loyal  and  beautiful  Lasellian,  one 
of  whom  we  ought  to  be  proud.  Our  tender 
sympathy  is  extended  to  this  former  Lasell 
student. 

Miss  Packard  has  recently  heard  from  Mil- 
dred Hotchkiss,  '14,  who  is  planning  serious- 
ly to  enter  Columbia  University.  We  are  re- 
joiced always  to  learn  of  a  forward  move- 
ment on  the  part  of  our  graduates. 


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JOKES 


"A  funny  old  man  told  this  to  me 
I  fell  in  a  snow  drift  in  June,  he  said 
I  went  to  a  ball  game  out  in  the  sea 
I  saw  a  Jelly-fish  float  up  in  a  tree 
I  found  some  gum  in  a  cup  of  tea 
I  stirred  my  milk  with  a  brass  key 
I  opened  my  door  on  my  bended  knee 
I  beg  your  pardon  for  this  said  he 
But  'tis  true  when  told  as  it  ought  to  be 
'Tis  a  puzzle  in  punctuation  you  see." 


Ex. 


A  PROGRESSION 


The  Freshman :  "I  don't  know  whether  I 
like  this  place  or  not." 

The  Sophomore:  "It  is  a  good  place,  but  I 
hate  to  get  back  to  the  grind." 

The  Junior:  'T'm  glad  to  get  back — it  is  a 
peach  of  a  place." 

The  Senior :  "Oh,  what  a  wonderful  place. 
T'm  sure  going  to  hate  to  leave  it." 

The  Graduate :  "The  happiest  years  of  my 
life.     It's  some  old  school." 


Fond  Mother:  "My  daughter  learned  to 
play  the  piano  in  no  time." 

Neighbor :  "Yes,  I  frequently  hear  her  play 
that  way." 


Teacher :  "Give  a  short  oral  theme  on  the 
subject  Baseball." 

Boy  :  "Rain,  no  game." 


First  Woodland  Park  Girl :  "The  girls  here 
live  a  high  life,  don't  they  ?" 

Second  Woodland  Park  Girl :  "Oh,  did  you 
get  a  fourth  floor  room,  too?" 


Tramp  (to  lady  of  the  house)  :  "I  just 
came  back  from  the  front  and " 

Lady  (interrupting)  :  "Indeed.  What  suc- 
cess did  you  have  there  ?" 

Tramp :  "None,  ma'am ;  that's  why  I  came 
around  to  the  back." 


Freshman :  "You  are  graduating  from  Las- 
ell  this  year,  aren't  you?" 

Senior  :  "Well, — er — I'm  a  Senior  !" 


"When's  your  birthday?" 

"I  was  twenty,  the  second  of  April." 

"A  day  late,  as  usual." 


When  the  meek  finally  inherit  the  earth, 
they"  will  probably  have- to  sell  all  the  valuable 
things  on  it  to  pay  their  inheritance  tax. 


Teacher :  "What  is  the  purpose  of  the 
League  of  Nations?" 

Pupil :  "To  make  the  world  free  from  out- 
side interruption." 


"  'Twas  a  wintry  day  in  summer, 
The  rain  was  snowing  fast, 
The  barefoot  boy  with  shoes  on 
Stood  sitting  in  the  grass." 


Ex. 


Chambermaid :  "I  found  seventy-five  cents 
in  your  bed  this  morning,  Miss." 

Celeste  Vincent :  "Ah,  my  sleeping  quarters, 
no  doubt." 


A  new  girl  in  the  drug  store  was  growing 
impatient  at  the  lack  of  service.  Finally  she 
rapped  sharply  on  the  counter.  "Here,  sir !" 
she  called.    "Who  waits  on  the  nuts?" 


Helene  in  P.  K.  (to  butcher)  :  "I've  just 
thought  of  something  else  I  want  for  dinner." 

Butcher :  "Yes'm." 

Helene :  "Well,  chicken.  Please  cut  out 
the  croquettes  and  I'll  take  them  with  me." 


From  a  Menu  of  the  Future. 
"Filet  steak  with  onions,  $1.00  a  look;  $2.50 
a  smell.     Special  rates  to  the  blind." 

Ex. 


K.  Rice  :  "I  just  adore  caviare.    Don't  you?" 
Helen  O'Brien :    "I  never  heard  him  except 
on  the  Victrola." 


AS  WE  SEE  OTHERS 


The  Hermonite,  Mount  Hermon,  Mass. : 
You  have  an  exchange  editor,  but  no  exchange 
column. 

The  Roman,  Rome,  Georgia :  You  have  a 
splendid  paper.  Every  department  is  com- 
plete, especially  your  exchange. 

The  Dynamo,  Newtonville,  Mass. :  Quite 
a  newsy  little  paper. 

Boston  University  Beacon  :  Your  magazine 
contains  some  excellent  stories. 

The  Clarion,  Rochester,  N.  Y. :  Real  news- 
paper and  plenty  of  cuts. 

The  Early  Trainer,  Lawrence,  Mass. :  Your 
editorials  are  good,  but  need  titles  to  attract 
attention. 

The  M.  P.  S.,  Bethlehem,  Pa. :  Poor  selec- 
tion of  jokes.     Where  are  your  snaps? 

The  Leader,  Boston,  Mass. :  A  somewhat 
startling  cover  on  your  magazine. 


Sharps  and  Flats,  Cincinnati,  Ohio :  The 
articles  in  your  July  issue  are  ably  written. 

The  X-Ray,  Anderson,  Ind. :  Plenty  of 
cuts,  but  no  snaps  or  personal  pictures. 

We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  following 
exchanges : 

The  Aegis,  Beverley,  Mass. ;  The  Town 
Crier,  Newton  Center,  Mass. ;  The  Goldenrod, 
Wayne,  Nebr. ;  The  Breeze,  Linstrom  Center, 
Minn. ;  The  Tal  Bagh  Chronicle  :  The  Mirror, 
Pratt,  Kansas ;  Orange  and  Black,  Middle- 
town,  Conn. ;  The  Quill,  New  Brighton,  N.  J. ; 
The  Magpie,  Waterbury,  Conn. ;  Alpha,  New 
Bedford,  Mass. ;  The  Academy  Monthly,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  The  Keene  Kronicle,  Keene, 
N.  H. ;  The  Critic,  Lynchburg,  Va. ;  The 
Franklin,  Cincinnati,  O. ;  The  Tradesman, 
Boston,  Mass.;  The  Budget,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  ; 
The  Headlight,  Richmond,  Ind. ;  The  Stu- 
dent's Reviezv,  Northampton,  Mass. ;  The  Rail 
Splitter,  Lincoln,  111. ;  The  Record,  Patchogue, 
N.  Y. 


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ATHLETICS 


The  baseball  enthusiasts  met  the  other  day 
at  Berkeley  and  talked  over  their  plans.  They 
decided  to  have  two  teams  which  were  to  be 
called  The  Sparks  and  The  Fliers.  Josephine 
Florence  was  elected  captain  of  The  Fliers 
and  Virginia  Walter,  captain  of  The  Sparks. 
The  teams  have  not  been  selected  as  yet,  but 
with  such  captains  they  will  surely  be  good. 
Big  things  are  expected  of  them. 

Any  day  the  weather  permits,  one  is  sure 
to  see  a  basket-ball  game  down  on  the  Car- 
penter court.  Miss  Woodward  has  selected 
several  teams  which  are  seen  practicing  faith- 
fully at  their  scheduled  times.  After  a  few 
practice  games,  captains  and  regular  school 
teams  will  be  chosen. 

A  new  sport  has  been  added  to  the  Lasell 
list,  that  of  bowling.  The  Woodland  Park 
bowling  alleys  are  to  be  opened  to  the  girls 
one  afternoon  a  week.  We  all  like  to  bowl ; 
so  let's  organize  some  teams. 

The  canoeing  season  is  over,  much  to  the 
sorrow  of  many.  Miss  Woodward  says  there 
is  a  great  number  of  prospective  candidates. 
The  fact  that  most  of  the  new  girls  swim  will 
bring  several  try-outs  in  the  spring. 

Many  girls  have  been  enjoying  horseback 
riding  this  month.  A  large  number  are  inter- 
ested in  the  club  which  is  to  be  organized  in 
the  near  future.  -It  is  said  that  there  are  to 
be  some  contests  in  the  spring. 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 


Hustr  Sealera 


2B  Park  St.,  Boston  Tel.  Haymarket  1150 


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is  pure  and  delicious. 
Trade  mark  on  every 

package. 
WALTER  BAKER  &  CO.  ltd. 

ESTABLISHED  I7SO  DOHCHESTER,MA3S. 


School 
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Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 


Pemberton  7  Square 


Send     for     our    recent     catalogues.     Mail 

orders  filled  the  same  day   as  received. 

Music   sent   on    selection   if   desired. 


BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


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people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices: 
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Newton  Centre 


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Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 

Hand  Bags 
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Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets    " 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape   Gloves   at  $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


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near  Washington  Street    I 


BOSTON 


Telephone,  Richmond  731-732 
C.  D.  BULLERWELL  F.  M.  SCOBORIA 

C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7  New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 
(NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,   MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 


HOTEL  SUPPLIES 
57  and  58  N.  Market  St. 


Boston 


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Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 
business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

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Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to   139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92  Bedford  Street,  Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  281  1 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond  1 729 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


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Superior  Style  and  Quality  dis- 
tinguish O'Connor  apparel  and 
give  the  wearer  additional  smart- 
ness, '  grace  and  charm.  Small 
wonder,  then,  that  so  many 
college  girls  shop  here. 


Lasell  girls  are  especially  invited 
to  see  our  unusual  values  in 
dresses,  coats,  suits,  millinery, 
blouses,  furs,  etc. 


3.  p.  (TQIflmtnr  Oln. 


1  5  7  Tremont  St. 


Boston 


YOU  ARE 
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to  visit  us  any  time.  You'll  find  much  to 
interest  you  here  at  the  Home  of  Every- 
thing in  Linens.  If  you  desire  the  best  in 
fine  linens — table  goods,  towels,  handker- 
chiefs; dainty  imported  or  domestic  un- 
derwear ;  laces,  veilings ;  or  related  items; 
at  moderate  cost;  command  our  expert 
services  at  your  pleasure. 

Mail  and  'phone  orders  promptly  and 
correctly  filled. 

T.  D.  Whitney  Company 

Everything  in  Linens 
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160  Tremont  Street 

Ov«r   Moifley  » 

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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing   the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


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Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital  paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  CUMMING,  Treas.  and  Gen.  M8r. 

Telephone   1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone    Richmond    1647,     1648 

ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mar. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese   and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line,  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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NEW 


PLAID 


SKIRTS 


$25.00 


Box  plaited  skitts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -      Boston 


L  P.  Hollander  Co, 

MISSES'  AND   YOUNG   LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 

Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


Stye  Imtle  Muvb  Jtyarmarg 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


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(G.  Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :  Beach    1561 


gx  Brothers 

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143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

(Etjnto  jRtfStts 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


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ARE 

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Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  From  HomeReceipIs 
Packed   in    Stone  Jars 

A.  T.  BRIDGES  CO.,  Inc. 
78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Te!.   577   Haymarket 
Send    for   price   list    of  over   60    kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
Jfyarmarist 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to    $65.00 
Guitars   -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars  and  Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


F.  Capodanno    &    Sons 
AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 


Costumers 


6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1 45 


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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE      • 4 

LITERARY 

What,  Another  Essay! D.  Balch  5 

A  Lump  of  Clay R.   Ordway  6 

A  Hop J\    Comity  7 

Farewell  to  Autumn G.  Burnet  8 

EDITORIAL 9 

LOCALS 10 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES ' 12 

PERSONALS 13 

JOKES i7 

EXCHANGES 18 


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VIOLA  SULLIVAN,    '21 


THE  CLASS  PRESIDENTS 


WHAT,    ANOTHER    ESSAY! 


■What,  another  essay !  I  cried,  putting  the 
assignment  book  back  on  its  hook  with  a  bang. 
They  are  the  pests  of  my  life,  and  anyway, 
I  never  could  write.  There's  Helen, — yes, 
and  Marion, — who  can  reel  them  off  by  the 
yard,  while  I  sit  and  stare  into  space,  my 
teeth  pinching  my  pencil  and  my  mind  a  per- 
fect blank.  The  rest  of  today — yes,  and  all 
the  days  to  come  until  that  essay  is  done — all 
spoiled,  absolutely  spoiled !  I  go  canoeing 
apparently  enjoying  myself  immensely ;  I  de- 
vour a  delicious  sundae  apparently  in  the 
seventh  heaven  of  delight ;  I  even  receive  a 
letter  or  package  from  "George  Augustus," 
becoming  mildly  excited  for  the  time  being — 
but  always  before  me  looms  that  hideous  and 
terrifying  nightmare — another   essay. 

At  last,  I  calm  myself  enough  to  collect  the 
few  scattered  thoughts  roaming  at  large  in  my 
semi-paralyzed  brain,  and  sit  down  for  a 
night's  labor.  I  put  on  my  spectacles  to  ap- 
pear more  studious,  arrange  my  pencils  neatly 
in  a  row,  set  the  lamp  so  that  the  light  falls 
directly  over  my  left  shoulder,  put  on  my 
favorite  kimona,  get  a  fresh  stick  of  gum, 
and — I'm  ready  to  begin. 

Girls  by  the  dozen  flock  into  the  room,  and, 
I  being  too  busy  to  heed  or  prevent  this  shame- 
ful robbery  of  devouring  in  toto  my  new  box 
of  Huyler's,  try  on  my  chic  Parisian  hat,  and 


discuss  everything  from  President  Wilson's 
illness  to  the  new  "gym"  regulations.  But  I 
write  busily  on,  impossible  to  be  for  a  mo- 
ment diverted  from  my  task.  Doris  finishes 
her  essay  and  goes  to  Eleanor's  room  for  a 
"feed."  Helen  completes  her  story  and  goes 
to  bed ;  study  hour  bell  rfngs,  then  comes 
"taps" ;  but  still  I  sit  at  my  desk  writing  even 
though  my  hand  is  cramped  and  my  brain 
weary  from  constant  and  enormous  concen- 
tration. I  sit  thus  until  Miss  Wright's  im- 
perious knock  bids  me  hastily  gather  up  my 
scattered  writing  materials  and  switch  off  the 
lights.  But  after  all  is  quiet  in  the  house  and 
my  room-mates  are  sleeping  the  sleep  of  the 
just,  I  steal  into  the  bathroom  and  huddle 
myself  into  a  corner,  trying  to  complete  in 
an  interesting  as  well  as  intelligent  way  my 
English  paper.  A  few  more  hours  of  burn- 
ing the  midnight  spark  and  I  finally  tack  on 
a  hackneyed  ending  to  my  essay,  and  with  a 
sigh  of  relief  fall  wearily  into  my  bed  for  a 
few  hours  rest  before  my  strenuous  day  sum- 
mons me  to  the  conflict. 

Arising  early  to  copy  my  beloved  paper  in 
the  correct  form,  I  discover  that  someone  has 
borrowed  my  ruler ;  it  is  nowhere  to  be  found, 
and  that  margin  must  be  no  more,  no  less, 
than  one  and  a  half  inches.  Several  minutes  are 
wasted  in  searching  for  the  lost  article  which 
I  finally  unearth  on  the  third  floor.  In  my 
haste  and  earnest  endeavor  to  have  a  perfect 


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paper  I  neglect  to  leave  a  line  between  the 
title  and  the  essay  and  have  to  recopy  the 
page.  Then  I  indent  my  paragraphs  too 
much,  or  crowd  my  words  too  near  the  edge, 
or  divide  my  syllables  incorrectly.  After  five 
or  six  attempts,  my  first  page  is  completed. 
My  second  causes  me  more  trouble  than  the 
first :  I  forget  to  turn  over  my  paper  so  that 
the  little  margin  comes  at  the  top.  By  the  time 
my  essay  is  copied,  I  am  literally  surrounded 
with  half  filled  sheets  and  nearly  a  whole  pad 
has  been  used  in  my  effort  to  hand  in  a  paper 
perfect  in  form. 

At  last  I  go  to  class  and  proudly  hand  in 
my  paper  with  the  other  girls,  feeling  sure 
that  I  have  written  a  passable  essay  and  ihat 
I  have  made  an  honest  effort  to  do  my  best. 
T  have  visions  of  seeing  my  name  among  the 
contributions  to  Leaves  even  perhaps  to  The 
Atlantic  Monthly  and  feel  sure  that  Miss 
Mark-em-down  will  give  me  an  "excellent" 
in  her  little  red  book. 

The  fatal  day  comes  when  I  see  the  re- 
turned paper  in  my  mail  box  ;  my  knees  shake, 
my  hand  trembles,  as  I  reach  for  my  work  of 
art  to  look  for  the  anticipated  tribute.  Alas ! 
for  a  minute  I  think  the  teacher  must  have 
handed  me  one  of  her  own  papers  by  mistake 
as  it  is  covered  with  lines  and  lines  of  her 
writing  in  red  ink  and  not  one  little  word  of 
my'  own  handwriting  is  visible.  Slowly  I 
come  to  the  realization  that  this  decorative 
red  writing  represents  the  corrections  of  my 
beloved  essay,  and  after  reading  over  all  these 
kindly  suggestions,  I  scarcely  recognize  the 
paper  as  my  own.  But  the  blow  comes  when 
at  the  top  of  the  paper  in  large,  black,  out- 
standing letters,  I  see  these  dreaded  letters 
"N.A."  And  I  repeat  again  with  increased 
fervor,  what — another  essay  ! 

Balch  '20. 


A   LUMP   OF   CLAY 


Clay — and  who  has  called  it  worthless?  It 
is  the  medium  whereby  the  sculptor  can  ex- 
press his  thought,  portray  beauty,  embody  the 


ideal.  Even  a  little  child,  seeking  self-expres- 
sion, turns  instinctively  to  his  box  of  clay. 
Rolling  a  lump  into  a  ball  between  his  little 
palms,  he'  punches  holes  for  eyes,  then 
scratches  lines  for  whiskers,  adds  a  tail  thrice 
too  long  for  the  body,  and  confidently  calls 
the  thing  a  cat.  We  smile,  for  we  see  only 
the  result — crude  and  comical.  The  amusing 
lack  of  correspondence  between  the  object 
and  the  name  given  it  takes  our  attention  off 
that  inner  vision  of  the  ideal  which  so  pre- 
dominates within  the  creative  mind  of  child  or 
artist. 

The  sculptor,  too,  turns  to  clay  for  expres- 
sion. But  he,  with  his  cunning  skill,  is  able 
to  make  that  pliant,  gray-green  mass  conform 
more  perfectly  to  his  ideal.  Michael  Angelo 
has  said  that  there  are  sciences  which  de- 
mand the  whole  of  a  man.  The  art  of  hand- 
ling clay  is  one.  Little  do  we,  skeptics  and 
admirers  alike,  realize  with  what  utter  de- 
votion the  sculptor's  life  is  sacrificed  to  his 
work. 

He  models  with  his  brain,  not  alone  with 
his  hands.  And,  unless  his  brain  is  under 
command,  he  produces  work  that  shames  him. 
Therefore,  in  that  usual  secrecy  which  at- 
tends the  work  of  great  artists,  the  sculptor 
begins  to  create,  thinking  vitally  all  the  time, 
his  hand  with  wondrous  sureness  obeying  the 
bidding  of  the  master's  soul.  And  herein  lie 
the  possibilities  of  a  lump  of  clay,  possibili- 
ties as  infinite  as  the  soul  of  the  sculptor. 

To  be  sure,  the  primary  construction  of  a 
statue  is  more  or  less  mechanical,  as  are  the 
first  indications  of  form  and  feature.  But 
the  sculptor  applies  even  here  a  powerful  con- 
centration of  will  and  feeling  which  taxes 
attention  and  memory  to  an  extent  unattained 
(and  therefore  unappreciated)  by  the  ordi- 
nary mind,  except  in  cases  of  great  danger  or 
exaltation.  It  is  here  that  the  clay  ceases  to 
exist  merely  as  a  lump,  and  assumes  an  ap- 
pearance of  reality.  This  change  is  evolved 
by  a  formative  touch  or  two  which  the  sculp- 
tor himself  can  hardly  govern;  it  comes  by 
inspiration,  gradual   or   sudden.     With  it   his 


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creation  is  a  success ;  without  it,  a  failure. 
And  who  are  we,  that  we  should  condemn  as 
pious  or  fanatical  the  man  who,  having  pro- 
duced this  breathing  reality,  reverently  thanks 
God  for  the  life  within  it? 

In  spite  of  all  this,  clay  is  not  lasting.  The 
statue  must  be  cast  in  substantial  bronze  be- 
fore the  sculptor's  work  is  complete.  And 
while  this  great  reflection  of  a  mighty  thought 
goes  out  into  the  world  to  be  held  in  reverent 
admiration — nay,  in  worshipful  love  by  all 
beholders,  the  master  of  the  clay  himself  loves 
better  the  original  lump,  once  shapeless  and 
inexpressive ;  that  intimate  source  of  his  cre- 
ation, which  bears  his  own  finger-marks,  a 
score  of  minute  indications  of  light  and  shade, 
sure  to  be  obliterated  in  the  final  form. 

Success  crowns  the  sculptor  as  it  crowns 
others ;  and,  although  artists,  as  a  rule,  are 
modest  before  all  men,  and  devoid  of  what 
is  called  ambition,  be  sure  this  success  is  pre- 
cious to  him,  the  seal  of  his  right  to  high 
place  in  his  art.  Still  it  is  the  clay  model,  the 
rude  material  he  has  actually  handled,  first 
pounding  it  violently,  then  coaxing  it  ten- 
derly into  its  preconceived  form,  which  gives 
him  his  most  exalted  satisfaction ;  it  is  this 
original  shape  in  clay  of  his  inmost  imagining, 
which  first  reveals  to  the  master  his  indu- 
bitable possession  of  that  power  which  is  the 
very  height  of  his  craving, — the  power  to 
create. 

Ordzuay  '21. 


A  HOP 


I  had  just  received  a  new  plane  from  Pen- 
sacola  and  with  my  crew  had  got  it  into  shape 
to  go  to  Hayti,  and  from  there  down  to  Jam- 
aica. 

We  started  out  with  the  flag  plane  forma- 
tion, flying  in  the  windward  passage,  when 
motor  failure  forced  us  to  land.  The  twenty- 
five  to  thirty  knot  trade  wind  stirred  the  sea 
up  unpleasantly.  I  tried  to  fly  to  Guantanamo 
on  one  motor  as  the  mountains  rose  right  out 


of  the  water  forming  a  rocky  coast  line  with- 
out river  or  harbor  of  any  size  or  kind. 

After  I  had  travelled  homeward  fifteen  or 
twenty  miles,  I  settled  on  the  water.  The 
plane  was  loaded  heavily  with  radio,  tele- 
phone and  telegraph,  and  other  navigation 
equipment  so  that  it  was  not  possible  to  main- 
tain horizontal  flight  on  one  motor.  By  some 
good  luck  we  got  down  on  the  water,  landing 
with  the  wind  without  injury.  A  heavy  fol- 
lowing sea  broke  on  the  tail  of  my  plane, 
ripping  the  fabric  loose  and  causing  the  hull 
to  fill  with  water.  I  grabbed  a  signal  pistol 
and  cartridges  while  the  pilot  took  trig  signal 
flag.  Then  we  quickly  convinced  the  accom- 
panying plane  of  our  condition.  Meanwhile 
the  whole  crew  climbed  up  on  the  top  wing 
safely. 

We  had  come  down  about  two  miles  off 
shore  in  an  eight  foot  sea.  The  wind  was  not 
blowing  exactly  parallel  to  the  shore,  but 
tended  to  drift  us  on  to  the  island.  By  this 
time  the  seas,  breaking  over  the  hull,  had  filled 
it  with  water  and  the  lower  wings  were  awash. 
However,  the  flag  plane  flew  out  over  the 
fleet,  which  was  manoeuvering  just  out  of 
sight  from  us,  and  informed  them  of  our 
plight.  Immediately  the  whole  battle  force 
got  under  way,  heading  for  us  with  all  pos- 
sible steam.  In  about  an  hour's  time  The  Mis- 
sissippi hove  in  sight  and  we  could  see  that 
the  rescuers  were  towing  a  lifeboat.  By  this 
time  the  wind  had  drifted  us  toward  the  rocks. 
A  quarter  of  a  mile  from  shore  one  of  the 
crew  rigged  the  anchor,  and  hove  it  over- 
board. 

All  the  while  the  sea  was  washing  over  the 
boat  and  we  were  drifting  near  the  ugly 
rocks,  until  we  were  about  one  hundred  eighty 
feet  off  shore.  Here  the  anchor  caught  and 
held.  The  sea  was  dashing  over  thirty  foot 
coral  cliffs ;  there  was  no  beach.  In  fact,  we 
afterwards  found  that  there  were  thirty  feet 
of  water  where  we  struck.  The  jagged  coral 
rock  rose  perpendicularly  out  of  the  sea  and 
offered  no  visible  means  of  escape.  The 
Mississippi,  the  nearest  ship,  was  still  seven 


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miles  away.  We  stripped  off  our  clothing, 
and  put  it  inside  the  top  wing.  I  discovered 
that  we  were  on  a  slight  point,  around  which 
the  sea  did  not  break  directly,  because  some 
coral  rocks  outside  of  them  broke  the  force  of 
the  waves.     Our  anchor  line  parted. 

The  plane  swung  in  shore,  the  starboard 
•wing  struck  first  and  was  crumbled  up  like 
tissue  paper.  Then  the  hull  hit  and  was 
crushed  into  tinder  before  we  could  realize  it. 
As  we  scrambled  out  of  the  remaining  wing, 
a  sea  demolished  that  and  we  found  ourselves 
in  the  water.  Just  before  we  went  overboard, 
I  sang  out  to  the  crew  to  swim  out  around  the 
point,  and  out  we  all  swam.  I  cannot  describe 
how  we  worked  our  way  between  the  rocks 
and  climbed  those  cliffs.  Our  escape  was  a 
miracle. 

Some  two  hours  later,  when  everyone  had 
scaled  the  cliffs  safely,  a  rescue  crew  came 
to  our  help  from  The  Mississippi,  having 
landed  in  an  inlet  some  distance  off.  Nobody 
was  seriously  hurt,  but  everyone  was  cut  and 
bruised  by  the  sharp  jagged  rocks.  The  men 
from  the  ship  marvelled  at  the  fact  that  we 
had  landed  safely  on  such  cliffs  and  in  such 
a  sea. 

Our  troubles  were  not  over  until  a  two  mile 
walk  over  cactus-covered  coral  rocks  brought 
us  to  the  friendly  ship,  where  in  warmth  and 
comfort  we  could  think  almost  calmly  of  bur 
ill-fated  hop. 

V.  Comlcy,  '23. 


FAREWELL    TO    AUTUMN 


Autumn  is  wending  his  onward  way ; 

The  fallen  leaves  lie  brown  and  still ; 
The  etched  bare  boughs  stir  not,  nor  sway ; 

And  the  frosty  air  is  keen  and  chill. 

The  sun  rises  dim  from  his  eastern  bed, 

And  slowly  ascends  to  his  palace  on  high ; 
But  veils  his  dull  face  e'er  the  noonday  has 

fled. 
Comes  the  dusk ;  and  the  moon  takes  his  place 

in  the  sky. 


The  squirrel  in  the  elm  top  is  building  his 
nest; 

He  is  storing  his  nuts  in  yon  hollow,  we  see ; 
The  tall  yellow  hickory  he  robs  of  its  best, 

As  gaily  he  scampers  from  tree  unto  tree. 

The  rabbit  goes  romping  over  field,  over  briar, 
Playing  hide  and  go  seek  near  the  rippling 
rill ; 
From  afar  comes  the  crack  of   the  hunter's 
gun-fire, 
Or  the  plaintive  call  of  the  lone  whip-poor- 
will. 

The  robin  has  flown  to  a  warmer  clime ; 

We  hear  but  the  raucous  squawk  of  the  jay, 
As  he  flits  mid  the  branches  white  with  rime, 

Noisily  sputtering  and  scolding  away. 

The  pumpkins  are  heaped  in  huge  piles  on  the 
ground, 
Rich  yellow  on  lowland  or  hill. 
Of  their  golden  store  rifled,  the  corn-shocks, 
fast  bound, 
Stand  sere,  faded,  rain-beaten,  still. 

The   golden    rod's    sunshine    has    long   disap- 
peared ; 

The  asters  droop  wearily  down ; 
The  onslaught  of  winter  is  now  to  be  feared, 

And  the  chill  of  his  withering  frown. 

Thus  sadly  bids  Autumn  his  lingering  adieu, 
We  hear  on  the  breezes  his  sigh; 

But  not  long  will  it  be  ere  we  greet  him  anew ; 
Yet  that  Winter  may  live,  he  must  die ! 

G.  Burnet  '20. 


THE   UNBROKEN   SONG 


"I  heard  the  bells  on  Christmas  Day, 

Their  old,   familiar  carols  play, 

And  wild  and  sweet 

The   words   repeat 

Of  peace  on  earth,  good-will  to  men! 

And  thought  how,  as  the  day  had  come, 

The  belfries  of  all  Christendom 

Had  rolled  along 

The  unbroken  song 

Of  peace  on  earth,  good-will  to  men!" 

Longfellow. 


FRIENDS 


It  is  true  that  every  one  is  making  friends 
here  at  Lasell.  We  learn  to  know  and  under- 
stand the  girls  by  living  so  closely  with  them ; 
to  know  and  love  our  teachers  by  our  daily 
co-operation  with  them.  Nothing  can  rob  us 
of  these  friendships.  But  how  many  ever 
stop  to  think  of  a  book  as  a  friend?  Yet 
books  can  be  very  close  to  us,  and  mean  very 
much  to  us,  if  we  only  learn  to  know  them. 
Do  you  make  a  practice  of  spending  your 
spare  moments  in  the  library  with  some  book 
friend?  It  is  not  hard  to  become  acquainted 
and  it  is  a  very  pleasant  and  profitable  way 
to  use  your  leisure  time. 

Recently  we  have  had  some  excellent  read- 
ing matter  added  to  our  collection.  The  Class 
of  '19  left  us  a  very  beautiful  set  of  Shakes- 
peare ;  Miss  Witherbee  presented  us  with 
"Shakespeare  on  the  Stage,"  by  William 
Winter,  and  "The  History  of  English 
Rhythm,"  by  Edwin  Guest.  "A  Statistical 
Summary  of  the  War  with  Germany,"  by 
Ayres,  issued  by  the  Government,  has  been 
added  with  several  other  new  histories.  In 
Spanish  we  have  the  "Four  Horsemen  of  the 
Apocalypse."  For  dramas  we  find  "The 
Chief  European  Dramatists,"  by  Mathews, 
and  "Masterpieces  of  Modern  Drama,"  by 
Fierce  and  Mathews. 

If  you  are  not  already  one  who  finds  com- 
panionship in  books,  try  it  and  you  will  be 
surprised  to  discover  what  a  wonderful  friend 
it  is  possible  for  a  book  to  become. 


THE    BABY'S    SMILE 

Miss  Margaret  E.  Sangster 

"There,  in  a  manger  filled  with  hay, 
A  tiny  Baby  sleeping  lay ; 
A  smile  was  on  his  little  face. 
And,  though  it  was  a  common  place, 
A  throng  had  crowded  up  the  space, 
To  worship  and  to  pray. 

The  mother,  pale  and  wan  and  weak, 
In  rapture  far  too  great  to  speak, 
Could  see  no  conqueror,  no  king, 
Only  a  tiny  baby  thing, 
Who  stilled  his  cries  to  hear  her  sing 
In  accent  soft  and  meek. 

And  yet,  behind  the  baby  eyes 
There  dawned  a  soul  to  rule  the  skies. 

The  wise  men  hurried  from  afar, 
And  shepherds  saw  a  gleaming  bar 
Of  light.     And  in  the  midnight  sky, 
Above  the  mountain  grim  and  high, 
An  angel  whisper  fluttered  by : 
'Follow  the  Star— the  Star !' 

Deep  in  the  manger  lay  the  child, 

The  winter  night  was  cold  and  wild, 

The  cattle  clamored  in  the  shade, 

The  lambs  were  crouching  where  they  played, 

And  yet  the  baby,  unafraid, 

Turned  in  his  sleep,  and  smiled. 

Oh,  bitter  years  of  pain  and  loss ! 
Behind  the  smile  there  stood  a  cross !" 


November  4  was  quite  an  exciting  day  for 
the  Seniors,  for  after  dinner  about  fifty-four 
girls  received  notes  from  Miss  Packard,  say- 
ing that  she  approved  their  membership  in  the 
class  of  1920.  In  addition  to  the  members  of 
last  year's  Junior  Class  five  new  girls  made 
Senior.  These  were  Charlotte  Parker,  Doris 
Campbell,  Lillian  Grant,  Marion  Hubbard  and 
Eloise  Carey. 

The  Rev.  Edgar  Park  of  West  Newton 
spoke  to  us  at  Vespers,  November  9.  He  took 
as  his  subject  The  1920  Model.  Each  year 
automobile  makers  advertise  their  cars  as 
being  superior  to  those  of  the  previous  season. 
They  set  forth  the  three  qualities  of  a  good 
machine,  the  beauty,  the  convenience  and  the 
power.  Dr.  Park  then  compared  the  human 
machine  to  the  1920  car.  It  should  have  the 
highest  degree  of  beauty.  It  should  also  pos- 
sess convenience ;  that  is,  it  should  be  easy  to 
get  on  with.  But  we  human  machines  will 
need  most  of  all  in  1920  more  power.  To 
secure  this  the  church  must  act  as  the  service 
station  and  prayer  as  the  means  of  communi- 
cation. Dr.  Park  urged  us  to  become  1920 
models  and  explained  that  prayer  would  be- 
come a  more  real  means  of  power,  if  we  visu- 
alised our  desires  and  had  faith. 

On  Monday  evening,  November  10,  we  had 


an  opportunity  to  listen  to  a  lecture  given  by 
Maud  Ballington  Booth  at  the  Congregational 
Church.  In  the  first  of  her  talk  she  told  about 
prison  reforms,  a  subject  which,  as  she  terms 
it,  is  nearest  her  soul.  Mrs.  Booth,  who  is 
called  by  the  prisoners,  "Little  Mother"  be- 
gan her  work  with  them  twenty-five  years 
ago,  when  a  vision  came  to  her  at  California. 
She  told  us  that  the  way  to  help  these  men  is. 
to  make  them  forget,  to  take  them  back  along 
early  paths  and  to  bring  to  them  the  echo  of 
some  dear  voice  they  loved.  Mrs.  Booth  has 
brought  to  many  thousand  prisoners  a  vision 
of  hope.  Nowhere  in  her  travels  of  recent 
years  did  she  find  more  enthusiasm  or  more 
patriotism  than  within  the  prison  walls.  When 
the  war  broke  out  they  were  all  anxious  to 
do  their  bit.  They  made  bandages  and  knit- 
ting needles,  and  they  put  thirty  thousand 
dollars  into  Liberty  Bonds. 

Mrs.  Booth  has  done  much  good  work  not 
only  on  this  side  of  the  water  but  bn  the  other 
side  as  well.  Shortly  after  war  broke  out  she 
received  instructions  to  go  across.  On  ar- 
riving on  the  other  side,  she  was  sent  to 
Weymouth  to  await  the  arrival  of  the  United 
States  fleet.  There  she  talked  to  the  sailors. 
Next,  she  went  to  Paris,  but  her  desire  was 
to    go    to    Verdun.      Here    her    experiences 


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brought  her  into  touch  with  the  boys  who 
■were  "up  against  it."  She  declared  that  she 
could  not  speak  too  highly  of  their  courage 
and  of  their  responsiveness  to  the  best  things. 
In  closing  Mrs.  Booth  left  with  us  the  sug- 
gestive words,  "That  which  we  fight  for,  we 
gain." 

At  3.10  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  November 
11,  the  attention  of  the  girls  was  centered  on 
the  bulletin  board ;  for  it  was  at  this  time 
that  classifications  came  out.  The  number  in 
the  different  classes  is  as  follows:  Seniors 
54,  Juniors  93,  Sophomores  22,  Freshmen  18, 
Preparatory  21,  and  Specials  53. 

Directly  after  classifications  were  out  No- 
vember 11,  class  meetings  were  held  which 
resulted  in  the  election  of  the  officers  for  the 
class  of  1921.  The  Juniors  were  not  able  to 
do  their  announcing  themselves  for  when  they 
came  down  into  the  dining-room  preparatory 
to  giving  the  names  of  their  officers,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Senior  Class  were  there  with  the 
names  of  the  Junior  officers  printed  on  a  big 
placard.  After  this  the  Seniors  gathered  in 
the  center  of  the  room,  and  gave  a  cheer  for 
the  officers.  Their  names  are  as  follows : 
President,  Viola  Sullivan ;  Vice-President, 
Lilian  Doane ;  Secretary,  Dorothy  Shove ; 
Treasurer,  Marion  Bodwell ;  Song  Leader, 
Alice  Pape ;  Cheer  Leader,  Edith  Story. 

The  Sophomores'  method  of  announcing 
their  class  officers  on  November  11,  was  very 
unique.  Shortly  after  dinner  commenced,  the 
members  of  the  Sophomore  class  appeared  in 
the  center  of  the  dining-room.  Each  girl  had 
a  paper  bag  which  she  blew  up  and  broke 
with  a  loud  bang.  Then,  they  gave  a  cheer 
for  each  of  their  officers.  The  girls  elected 
were  President,  Florence  Sheip ;  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Helen  Prindle ;  Secretary,  Katherine 
Wyman ;  Treasurer,  Doris  Brown ;  Song 
Leader,  Kathleen  MacDonald ;  Cheer  Leader, 
Helen  Louis. 

The  Freshman  class  officers  were  announced 
by  Roxie  Kent  on  November  11.  Those 
elected  were  ushered  to  their  seats  as  the  an- 
nouncements were  made.     They  appeared  as 


follows :  President,  Helene  Sweney ;  Vice- 
President,  Sarah  Crane ;  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Isabel  Britton ;  Song  Leader  and 
Cheer  Leader,  Beatrice  Barker. 

The  "Specials"  method  of  announcing  their 
class  officers  on  November  11  differed  from 
that  used  by  the  other  classes.  Two  girls 
acted  the  -parts  of  gossips.  They  came  into 
the  dining-room  and  began  to  read  the  even- 
ing paper.  Here  they  found  an  article  which 
said  that  the  "Specials"  of  Lasell  Seminary 
had  elected  their  officers  who  were  as  follows : 
President,  Mildred  Freeman;  Vice-President, 
Dorothy  Droege ;  Secretary,  Lillian  Fontaine  ; 
Treasurer,  Constance  Rogers ;  Cheer  Leader, 
Eleanor  Wheeler;  Song  Leader,  Marion  Wil- 
liams. 

On  Friday  evening,  November  14th,  the 
Christian  Endeavor  service  was  led  by  Dor- 
othy Ely.  Her  talk  was  about  finding  the 
source  of  happiness  and  contentment  in  one's 
own  self.  She  read  a  short  poem  in  illustra- 
tion of  this  thought.  At  the  close  of  her  talk 
Alice  Pape  sang  very  sweetly. 

Vespers  on  Sunday,  November  16,  were  in 
charge  of  the  Missionary  Society.  It  was  with 
interest  that  the  school  listened  to  Miss  Gib- 
son, assistant  principal  of  the  Schauffleur 
School,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Schauffleur  has  as 
members  girls  of  every  nationality ;  they  are 
not,  however,  to  be  considered  foreigners  but 
Americans  to  the  fullest  extent.  One-third 
of  each  student's  time  must  be  spent  in  the 
training  expected  to  be  of  use  in  the  future. 
Many  of  these  girls  choose  to  enter  mission 
fields  in  their  native  countries ;  others  go  into 
social  service  in  our  large  cities.  The  thought, 
"Others,"  was  emphasized  by  Miss  Gibson, 
especially  when  race  and  creed  were  being  dis- 
cussed. This  talk  opened  a  new  road  of 
thought  to  many  of  the  Lasell  girls. 

On  Thursday  afternoon,  Nov.  20th,  Mrs. 
Charlotte  Hawkins  Brown  told  us  of  her  work 
as  director  of  The  Palmer  Memorial  School 
in  Sedalia,  North  Carolina.  This  is  an  insti- 
tution for  negro  boys  and  girls  and  was  estab- 
lished by  Mrs.  Brown  through  the  inspiration 


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of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer.  After  completing 
her  studies  in  the  Massachusetts  schools,  Mrs. 
Brown  was  eager  to  help  the  people  of  her 
own  race  in  the  South.  She  found  them 
ignorant  not  only  of  books  but  also  of  ideas 
about  home  living.  Through  her  efforts  the 
little  school  increased  in  size  and  in  influence 
until  two  years  ago  when  a  fire  destroyed  the 
buildings.  Although  white  people,  both  in  the 
North  and  in  the  South,  raised  funds  for  re- 
building, much  remains  to  be  done  for  this 
needy  section.  Mrs.  Brown  said  that  the 
children  desire  only  to  grow  up  into  the  finest 
type  of  negro  men  and  women.  The  young 
women  with  her,  who  entertained  us  by 
melodies  ,and  readings,  gave  proof  of  the 
success  of  her  struggles  to  carry  forward  this 
important  work. 

Helen  Files  led  the  meeting  of  the  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  Society  on  Tuesday  evening, 
November.  25th.  She  spoke  of  .the  reasons 
we  have  for  being  thankful  and  read  a.  fitting 
poem  by  Henry  Van  Dyke.  Contributions  of 
fruit  and  other  eatables  were  brought  to  sup- 
ply those  whose  homes  are  less  favored  than 
are  ours.  This  attempt- to  give  happiness  to 
others  was  a  practical  way  of  showing  our 
thankfulness. 

On  Nov.  17  seventy-three  of  the  girls  went 
to  historic  Salem.  Here,  under  the  guidance 
of  Mr.  Ordway  and  Mr.  E.  J.  Winslow,  the 
party  visited  "The  Ropes  Memorial,"  "The 
Essex  Institute,"  "The  Peabody  Museum" 
and  "The  House  of  Seven  Gables."  Each  of 
these  places  had  its  own  peculiar  points  of 
interest  and  made  us  feel  well  repaid  for  our 
visit. 

Now  that  the  classes  have  been  organized 
would  it  not  be  a  good  idea  to  have  a  little 
friendly  rivalry  between  the  Juniors  and 
Seniors  in  getting  out  The  Leaves?  Each 
class  could  easily  work  up  an  interesting  num- 
ber, for  in  each  there  is  much  talent  not  yet 
allowed  to  shine.  The  plan  of  having  class 
issues  is  followed  in  many  schools  with  great 
success.     Why  not  try  it  at  Lasell? 


WOODLAND    PARK   NOTES 


On  Wednesday  morning,  Nov.  26th,  our 
Chapel  Exercises  were  planned  to  prepare  us 
for  the  proper  spirit  of  Thanksgiving  Day. 
The  Kindergarten  and  Primary  Class  met  with 
the  other  grades.  Barbara  Ordway  recited 
"Over  the  River  and  Through  the  Wood," 
after  which  Miss  Nichols'  and  Miss  Norton's 
classes  sang.  Gwendolyn  McDonald  then  re- 
cited a  Thanksgiving  poem  and  Julia  Plun- 
kett  read  a  Short  Essay  describing  Thanks- 
giving customs  in  America. 

Eleven  children  remained  at  Woodland 
Park  during  the  Thanksgiving  Recess  and  all 
voted,  they  had  a  good  time.  Mr.  Charles 
Plunkett  of  Washington,  D.  C,  visited  his 
sister  Julia  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

We  are  very  proud  of  our  new  school-room 
furniture.  "Empire"  desks  have  been  put  in 
for  all  grades,  including  the  Kindergarten. 
The  new  desks  enable  all  classes  above  the 
fourth  grade  to  recite  and  study  entirely  on 
the  sun-porch. 

Miss  Hilda  Tufts  of  the  Buckingham 
School,  Cambridge,  and  Miss  Ellen  Hem- 
meon,  teacher  of  French  in  the  High  School 
at  Bradford,  Vt,  were  Mrs.  McDonald's 
guests  over  the  Thanksgiving  Recess. 

On  Saturday,  Nov.  22nd,  the  four  upper 
grades  accompanied  by  Miss  Nichols  and  Miss 
Bunting  visited  the  Exhibition  of  French  pic- 
tures at  the  Boston  City  Club. 

Ida's  mother  wished  to  know  exactly  how 
Ida's  grief  would  find  expression  when  told 
she  could  not  go  home  for  Thanksgiving.  A 
kind  teacher  drew  the  child  into  her  arms  and 
as  gently  as  possible  broke  the  news.  "Well !" 
exclaimed  a  smiling  Ida,  "Shall  I  have  pump- 
kin pie,  turkey  and  cranberry  sauce — same's 
at  home?"     She  says  she  surely  did! 

Julia  Plunkett  attended  the  Harvard- Yale 
Game  with  her  brother,  Mr.  Clement  Plun- 
kett, of  Harvard  Law  School. 

Mrs.  Springer,  of  New  Jersey,  visited  us 
on  Dec.  1st.  She  expressed  herself  as 
greatly  pleased  with  Lasell's  Preparatory 
School.  Mrs.  Springer  attended  Lasell  as 
Edna  Wilson. 


As  usual  we  give  precedence  to  the  wed- 
ding announcements  and  are  very  pleased  to 
record  the  marriage  of  Dorothy  Frances 
Hadley  to  Mr.  Joseph  Lyall  Frost  on  October 
the  twentieth. 

On  November  first  Ethel  Elizabeth  Mur- 
ray, '15,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Clay  Wil- 
born  Kuykendall. 

On  Wednesday,  November-  the  twenty- 
sixth,  Sabra  Gilbert  Gould  and  Mr.  Roderick 
Burt  Dunlap  were  united  in  marriage.  They 
will  be  at  home  after  January  first  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

Our  very  hearty  congratulations  to  these 
brides  and  grooms. 

A  recent  copy  of  the  Bridgeport  Post  an- 
nounces the  engagement  of  Martha  Lasher  to 
Mr.  Robert  F.  Weed,  son  of  Col.  and  Mrs. 
Harry  B.  Weed  of  Syracuse,  New  York. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Ruth 
Ellen  Griffin,  '16,  to  Mr.  John  James  Mc- 
Donald. 

/  The  Knickerbocker  Press  of  Albany,  No- 
vember eighth  issue,  contained  a  most  com- 
plimentary and  well  deserved  tribute  to  the 
new  State  Regent  of  the  D.  A.  R.,  Mrs. 
Charles  White  Nash  (Mary  Tupper)  of  Al- 
bany). Mrs.  Nash  received  an  almost  unani- 
mous vote  as   Regent  and  in  the  interesting 


"write-up"  of  her  able  service  to  the  D.  A.  R. 
special  mention  was  made  of  the  fact  that  she 
was  educated  at  Lasell  Seminary.  Mrs.  Nash 
is  a  descendant  of  Mayflower  ancestry  and  of 
Colonel  Governor  Mayhew ;  was  founder  and 
secretary  of  the  Tupper  Family  Association 
of  America,  organized  to  preserve  the  Tupper 
house,  probably  the  second  oldest  in  America, 
built  in  1637  at  Sandwich,  Mass.,  by  Thomas 
Tupper,  one  of  the  founders  of  that  town. 
We  are  proud  of  this  honor  conferred  upon 
this  former  Lasell  girl.  / 

Florence  Lane  Staebner,  '07,  and  Etta 
Thayer,  '07,  "made  us  a  call"  one  Saturday 
afternoon  in  November.  Florence  seems  to 
be  constantly  on  the  wing,  spending  her  win- 
ters in  Florida  and  the  summers  in  the  North. 
Any  mail  will  reach  her  which  is  sent  to  her 
husband's  headquarters,  Bureau  of  Public 
Roads,  Washington,  D.  C.  Etta  was  in  the 
North  for  a  somewhat  extended  visit,  but  was 
going  back  to  her  home  among  the  cotton 
fields  of  Louisiana  in  the  early  winter.  Flor- 
ence had  visited  Edna  Strickland  Olsen,  '07, 
in  Hartford,  and  they  had  both  seen  Marion 
Atwell  Alton,  '07,  in  Washington.  Marion's 
husband  is  to  remain  in  military  life  and  has 
recently  had  a  promotion. 

A  very  fine  picture  came   recently  to   our 


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Preceptress  from  Anna  Marbold  Wernsing,  a 
picture  of  herself,  the  late  Mr.  Wernsing, 
President  of  one  of  the  banks  of  Greenview, 
Illinois,  and  her  three  stalwart  sons,  a  most 
interesting  group.  Anna  has  great  reason  for 
being  proud  of  her  family. 

On  Thanksgiving  Day  the  Hopkins  twins 
'19  and  Esther  McMaster  dropped  in  for  a 
friendly  call.  Mary  and  Sarah  are  most  en- 
thusiastic over  their  college  home,  Mt.  Holy- 
oke,  and  we  know  the  girls  have  been  doing 
good  work  and  yet  in  spite  of  it  they  looked 
rested.  They  brought  the  news  that  Mar- 
guerite Houser,  '19,  was  visiting  Marion 
Owen,  '19,  and  that  they  (Mary  and  Sarah) 
had  accepted  an  invitation  to  spend  the  Christ- 
mas vacation  in  Florida  with  Marguerite.  It 
will  be  a  novel  and  delightful  experience  for 
these  Maine  girls. 

Myra  Eby  Craighead,  '14,  was  among  the 
November  callers  and  we  were  sorry  to  learn 
from  her  that  she  was  just  about  to  leave 
Boston  and  return  with  her  husband  to  their 
Pennsylvania  home.  We  had  hoped  to  see 
more  of  this  graduate  had  she  made  Boston 
a  permanent  home.  Her,  husband,  however, 
has  finished  his  research  work  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts General  Hospital  and  will  take  up 
some  further  service  in  Pennsylvania  along 
his  special  line. 

Nina  Dietz  Harwood,  '11,  and  Mildred  Mar- 
shall Hayden  came  together  and  how  natural 
the  combination  seemed.  Nina's  husband  is 
now  in  France  and  after  spending  the  Christ- 
mas vacation  with  her  father  and  sister  in 
Omaha  she  too  will  sail  away  to  Paris  where 
they  will  make  their  home  for  the  next  five 
years. 

Through  the  courtesy  of  one  of  the  Pasa- 
dena new  girls  we  received  a  copy  of  a  local 
paper  which  contained  a  fine  article  on  the 
new  university  which  is  about  to  be  started 
in  southern  California.  Very  high  tribute  was 
paid  to  our  Principal  Emeritus  for  his  wise 
suggestions  concerning  this  new  educational 
venture.  We  congratulate  any  institution 
which  succeeds  in  getting  valuable  "pointers" 


from  Dr.  Bragdon  whom  we  out  here  ack- 
nowledge as  one  of  the  wisest  and  ablest  of 
educators.  Just  at  this  moment  there  has  been 
placed  in  our  hands  one  of  his.  characteristic 
letters.  We  take  pleasure  in  sharing  it  with 
the  readers  of  the  Leaves. 

"Why  say  'quite  true'?  If  a  thing  be  true 
what  does  quite  add  to  it?  If  it  be  not  true 
you  can't  make  it  so  by  prefixing  quite  to  it. 
If  you  mean  "quite"  in  the  sense  of  "nearly" 
why  not  say  nearly?" 

"Why  say  'very  pure'?  If  a  thing  is  pure 
it  is  pure  and  what  do  you  add  to  its  purity 
by  using  very?" 

Out  here  I  see  "Go  Slow"  on  signs  put  up 
by  the  Auto  Club.  What  would  Miss  Wither- 
bee  say  to  that?  It  is  clear,  not  very  clear, 
but  just  clear,  that  that  man  was  not  trained 
at  Lasell. 

"Come  and  see  us !"  Answer,  "You  bet !" 
"Is  your  wife  well  ?"  Answer,  "Fine  and 
dandy."  These  answers  were  given  here  in 
Pasadena  by  College  graduates.  Lasell  girls 
never  say  such  things???? 

"English  is  better  spoken  by  the  English 
than  by  Americans  of  the  same  class." 

"An  uncle  of  Gertrude,  '97,  and  Lilian 
Taggart  has  come  from  Indianapolis  to  live 
here.  He  says  Gertrude  is  a  good  deal  of  a 
Club  woman,  at  the  head  and  front  of  public 
social  affairs,  while  Lilian  is  more  domestic. 
Both  are  well  and  happy.  I  well  remember 
my  delightful  call  several  years  ago  upon  the 
Indianapolis  'Girls'  and  wish  I  might  see  them 
again." 

"Ina  Scott  Bryant,  '01,  of  Amarillo,  Texas, 
has  come  to  Los  Angeles  again  for  the  winter. 
(I  laugh  when  I  write  "winter!"  So.  Cali- 
fornia has  no  winter,  only  an  intermittent 
rainy  season  during  most  of  which  we  have 
no  rainy  days !  It  has  a  habit  of  raining 
mostly  during  the  nights.)  She  with  her 
three  children  is  at  the  same  apartment  as  last 
year.  Mr.  Bryant  will  come  in  December.  I 
understand  they  have  been  profitably  wading 
in  Texas  oil. 

"Lizzie  Bacon  Whittemore  has  come  again 


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to  Pasadena  for  the  winter  and  is  at  61  No. 
Euclid  Ave. 

"Lyday  M.  Hukill,  formerly  of  Pittsburg, 
is  now  of  Long  Beach,  California,  with  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Wilson,  at  R.  F.  D.  No.  1,  Box 
64. 

"Lillie  Hathaway  Muir,  who  came  to  Lasell 
from  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  and  who  now  lives 
in  Spokane,  made  us  a  welcome  call  Novem- 
ber first.  Her  two  daughters  are  college- 
ward  inclined,  one  a  graduate  and  now  look- 
ing toward  Simmons  College,  the  other  an 
undergraduate.  Lillie  looks  well  and  has  very 
little  age  to  show  for  the  years  that  have 
passed. 

"Mr.  Van  Doren,  the  faithful  husband  of 
our  dear  Blanche  Pruyne,  who  made  here  a 
brave  fight  for  her  life,  is  now  staying  here 
after  a  summer  in  Arizona.  Dear  Blanche ! 
She  was  a  heroine. 

"We  have  seen  several  autos  from  Massa- 
chusetts. Those  reckless  Pilgrims  seem  to 
think  nothing  of  3,000  miles." 

C.  C.  B. 

Some  of  our  new  girls  have  been  especially 
favored  during  the  Thanksgiving  season  in 
having  visits  from  their  parents.  Mrs.  Harry 
Moore  was  here  for  several  weeks,  Mrs.  H. 
W.  Shove  also  with  her  friend  whom  we  like 
to  claim  as  a  Lasellite,  Mrs.  Willard.  The 
enthusiasm  of  these  mothers  over  our  school 
is  certainly  very  encouraging.  We  were  sorry 
that  a  sad  errand,  the  illness  of  their 
daughters,  brought  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  G.  Cam- 
eron and  Mrs.  F.  E.  Ballentine  to  Lasell,  but 
we  were  glad  of  the  privilege  of  meeting  these 
friends.  We  were  especially  interested  in  Air. 
Cameron's  account  of  the  University  of  Ot- 
tawa, of  which  he  is  a  trustee. 

Mrs.  Orin  Walker  and  little  lady  Jane,  the 
wee  sister  of  Mary  and  Martha,  were  with 
us  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  also  Mr.  Wilson 
Ely,  father  of  Dorothy  and  Mr.  Stephen 
Miller,  father  of  Laura.  We  were  especially 
honored  in  having  among  our  guests  also 
Laura's  grandmother,  Mrs.  Phineas  Jones. 

Because    of    the    delayed    sailing    of    the 


steamer  our  Principal,  Dr.  Winslow  and  Mrs. 
Winslow  did  not  reach  us  until  Thanksgiving 
evening,  but  we  were  indeed  rejoiced  to  wel- 
come them  home  again. 

Our  Preceptress  recently  had  a  visit  from 
her  brother,  Mr.  E.  F.  Potter,  and  his  wife. 
None  are  more  loyal  to  Lasell  than  these  par- 
ents of  three  of  our  old  girls. 

There  were  great  rejoicings  among  the  old 
girls  when  Virginia  Ouarles  '19,  returned. 
She  is  back  now,  not  as  a  student,  but  as  one 
of  Dr.  Winslow's  secretaries.  Virginia  stopped 
en  route  from  her  home  in  Kansas  City  to 
visit  Dorothy  Hopper,  '19,  her  former  room- 
mate, and  according  to  Viriginia's  story  it 
would  have  taken  very  little  extra  persuasion 
to  induce  Dorothy  to  "come  back  too."  It  is 
just  possible  we  hear  that  she  may  return 
after  Christmas  for  some  post-graduate  work. 

Miss  Witherbee  recently  received  a  letter 
from  Miss  Dolley  describing  in  full  the  busy 
and  successful  career  of  herself  and  Miss 
Rand.  They  certainly  are  making  the  most  of 
the  unusual  opportunities  offered  at  Columbia 
University  and  spoke  of  a  recent  meeting  with 
Miss  Edith  Collins,  our  former  teacher  of 
mathematics  who  is  at  present  Principal  of 
Pembroke  Hall. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Kendig  Kellogg,  '79,  recently 
was  the  guest  of  the  school  and  has  now  gone 
to  her  home  in  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  for 
the  winter. 

Martha  Haskell  Clark,  '05,  drifts  into  our 
neighborhood  now  and  then,  but  we  rarely 
have  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  her  home  at 
Lasell.  A  recent  issue  of  the  Youth's  Com- 
panion contained  this  fine  poem  from  the  pen 
of  our  gifted  alumna. 

GYPSIES    OF    THE    SEA 
By  Martha  Haskell  Clark 
Their  patteran  is  the  streamered  kelp  that  drifts  on 
the  homing  tide ; 
The  gray  gulls  loiter  on  widespread  wings  to  an- 
swer their  brother -hail ; 
The    roads    they   follow    across    the    world    are    the 

white  sea-trails  untried. 
The  tents  they  pitch  when  the  day  grows  dim,  the 
lashings   of   wind-swept   sail. 


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And  ever  the  song  of  their  bearded  lips 

Comes  echoing  back  to  me, 
"Mates  of  the  wave, 
Kin  to  the  winds, 

Lords  of  the  Open   Sea !" 

Their    camp-fire's    light    is    the    leaping    flame    that 
burns  in  the  dying  west, 
And  I   catch  the   lilt   of   their   zither   song  in   the 
beat  of  the  mid-sea  rain ; 
Their   loves,   the   breast   of   the   fickle   sea,    and   the 
sweet  of  a  dream's  unrest 
When  the  moon,  as  bright  as  a  gypsy  coin,  drips 
up   from  the  waves   again. 

And  ever  the  song  of  their  bearded  lips 

Comes  echoing  sweet  to  me, 
"Mates  of  the  wave, 
Kin  to  the  winds, 

Lords  of  the  Open  Sea !" 

The    sea    wind    plucks    at   my    silken    sleeve    in    the 
streets   of  the  crowded  mart; 
The  sea  gulls  circle  and  find  me  out,   and  buffet 
along  beside, 
Tho'  I  fill  my  ears  with  the  jesters'  mirth  to  stifle 
my  crying  heart. 
And   turn   my    face    from    the   gray-winged    ships 
that  strain  with  the  seaward  tide 

But  ever  the  call  of  a  gypsy  song 

Comes   echoing  clear  to  me, 
"Mates  of  the  wave, 
Kin  to  the  winds, 

Lords  of  the  Open  Sea !" 

Many  girls  have  asked  for  Miss  Rand's 
address  and  we  are  glad  to  give  it  to  them. 
It  is  Furnald  Hall,  Columbia  University,  New- 
York. 

Gladys  Stults  writes  to  Miss  Packard  that 
she  is  very  much  interested  in  a  work  for 
young  women  started  in  Morristown  similar 
to  that  done  by  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Also,  that 
her  Sabbath  School  class  claims  a  great  deal 
of  her  attention  and  she  is  drilling  them  Sun- 
day after  Sunday  to  take  charge  of  their  own 
class  so  that  when  opportunity  comes  to  serve 
in  a  larger  Sunday  School  they  will  have  had 
drill  under  her  direction. 

Along  with  the  joy  of  this  holiday  season 
comes  this  most  interesting  message  from 
Mildred  Goodall,  '10,  a  dainty  card  announcing 
her  engagement  to  Mr.  William  Neal  Camp- 
bell, recently  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Cavalry. 


Mr.  Campbell  is  a  Galveston,  Texas,  man  and 
his  mother  was  Mary  Virginia  Stowe,  an  old 
Lasell  girl.  With  unusual  heartiness  we  ex- 
tend our  congratulations  to  Mildred  and  Lieu- 
tenant Campbell. 

The  very  latest  word  from  Annie  Merrill 
David,  '12,  tells  us  that  Gladys  Lawton,  11,  is 
at  present  her  guest  and  the  Saturday  follow- 
ing her  message  they  were  to  entertain  Miss 
Rand  at  Annie's  home  in  Montclair.  Annie 
adds,  "This  afternoon  at  the  matinee  some- 
one touched  me  on  the  shoulder  and  there  was 
Katherine  Wheeler,  '09,  way  from  St.  Paul. 
The  world  certainly  is  small.  Katherine  is 
here  only  for  a  short  visit  with  a  friend." 

On  their  recent  trip  to  Porto  Rico,  Dr.  and 
Airs.  Winslow  had  the  pleasure  of  calling  on 
Aurora  Rivera  in  Rio  Piedras  where  she  is 
attending  the  University.  She  was  eager  to 
hear  news  of  Lasell  and  sent  greetings  to  all 
her  friends. 

Announcement  of  the  engagement  of  Ruth 
Bachelder,  '12,  and  Mr.  Nathan  H.  Lascombe 
is  received. 

Miss  Irma  Belle  Lorber  has  recently  an- 
nounced her  engagement  to  Mr.  Eugene  M„ 
Eisenberg  of  San  Francisco,  California. 

Ora  Hammond  Pomeroy,  '12,  came  in  one 
morning  bonnetless  and  just  as  of  old.  How 
good  it  was  to  see  her!  If  anything,  hand- 
somer than  she  was  in  her  Lasell  school  girl 
days.  The  Dartmouth-Brown  game  brought 
Ora  and  her  husband  to  Boston.  She  insists 
that  her  little  daughter  not  two  years  old  has 
her  mother's  fondness  for  music,  and  when 
restless  will  quiet  down  and  grow  happy  again 
at  the  sound  of  music.  Ora  is  one  of  the  old 
girls  who  wisely  keeps  up  her  practice. 


"Some  say  that  ever  'gainst  that  season  comes 
Wherein  our   Savior's  birth  is  celebrated, 
The  bird  of  dawning  singeth  all  night  long; 
And   then,   they   say,    no   spirit   can   walk   abroad, 
The  nights  are  wholesome,  then  no  planets  strike, 
No   fairy  takes,  nor  witch  hath  power  to  charm, 
So  hallow'd  and   so  gracious   is   the  time." 

Shakespere. 


Junior  meeting — a  great  success. 
Seniors  proved  an  awful  pest. 
Juniors  found  to  their  surprise 
Something  they   did  not  surmise, 
When  it  came  the  hour  to  dine 
Seniors  were  right  there  on  time, 
Holding  high  a  banner  bold, 
On  which  the  officers  were  foretold. 
We're  sorry  that  it  had  to  be, 
But  20's  wide  awake  you  see. 


Breathes  there  a  girl  with  soul  so  dead, 
Who  never  to  herself  hath  said, 
As  she  gazed  at  the  grade  of  sixty-three, 
"That  teacher  sure  is  down  on  me?" 


V.  C. :  "Officer,  could  you  see  me  across  the 
street?" 

Officer :  "Miss,  I  could  see  you  for  three 
blocks  anyway." 


Heard  in  Senior  English,  "Dactylitis  is  a 
disease  of  the  fingers,  not  of  the  metrical 
foot." 


"The  gas  went  out  to  meter, 
The  egg  went  out  to  beater, 
The  nutmeg  went  out  to  grater, 
But,  alas  !  the  radiator." 


A.  Crane :  "So  your  brother  is  on  the  foot- 
ball team?" 

D.  Crawford :   "Yes,  indeed." 

A.  Crane :  "Do  you  know  what  position  he 
plays?" 

D.  Crawford:  "I'm  not  sure,  but  I  think 
he  is  one  of  the  draw-backs." 


Pete  Sprague:    "Miss  Wright,  I  have  this 
sample  all  done,  may  I  rest?" 
Miss  Wright:    "Yes,  Dotty,  if  you  can  find 


something  else  to  do." 


D.  Balch :   "Helen,  you  seem  to  have  oceans 
of  hair." 

H.  Files:    "Why?" 

D.  Balch :    "Because  there  are  waves  in  it." 


"I  don't  believe  there  is  any  chicken  in  this 
soup." 

"Chicken?  Of  course  not.  If  you  ordered 
cottage  pudding,  you  wouldn't  expect  to  find  a 
cottage  in  it,  would  you?" 


Terrible  fire,  200  kids  burned.     Glove  fac- 
tory goes  up  in  smoke. 


If    one    Ford   chased   another    Ford   up   a 
street  in  Ireland,  what  time  would  it  be? 
Tin  after  tin. 

{Continued  on  page  19) 


AS  WE  SEE  OTHERS 


AS   OTHERS   SEE   US 


The  Breeze,  Lindstrom,  Minn. :  Good  ex- 
change column  for  so  small  a  paper. 

The  M.  P.  S.,  Bethlehem,  Pa.:  Splendid 
stories,  but  so  few  sketches  and  snaps. 

The  Review,  Newton  Mass. :  Your  paper 
has  a  variety  of  news  and  "is  well  organized. 

The  Dynamo,  Newtonville,  Mass :  Your 
leaves  surely  advocate  "better  English." 


N.    Y. 


Good 


:    Fine  idea 
Your  paper 

One  of  our 


The     Clarion,    Rochester, 
sketches,  but  no  exchanges. 

The  Nezus,  East  Orange,  N.  J 
having  an  editor  from  each  class, 
shows  good  spirit. 

The  Optimist,  Newark,  N.  J.: 
best  exchanges. 

Lazvercnce  H.  S.  Bulletin,  Lawerence,  Mass.: 
Well  organized  staff,  but  not  much  news. 

The  Technical  High  School,  Springfield, 
Mass, :  Clever  baseball  sketches  in  your  June 
number  and  good  pictures,  but  no  stories. 

The  Reviezv,  Lowell,  Mass. :  "Parlez-vous 
Francais?"  a  very  clever  story. 

The  Lion,  La  Grange,  111.:  A  good  cover 
on  your  November  number.  We  couldn't  find 
your  exchanges. 


The  Roman,  Rome,  Ga. :  "An  exchange 
department  would  not  do  any  damage  to 
Lasell  Leaves." 

The  Magpie,  Waterbury,  Conn. :  "You 
have  a  good  Exchange  Department  and 
humorous  jokes." 

The  Optimist,  Newark,  N.  J.:  "What  do 
you  think  of  this?  Ex-President  Taft  sent 
this  note  with  his  picture  to  the  girls  of 
Lasell  Seminary :  'To  the  class  of  1920  of 
Lasell  Seminary,  Auburndale,  Mass.  In 
grateful  appreciation  of  my  election  as  an 
honorary  member  of  the  class  and  with  best 
wishes  for  each  member.  Wm.  Taft.  May 
5,  1919.'  " 

The  Reviezv,  Newton,  Mass. — "Lasell 
Leaves — one  of  the  best  exchanges  we  have 
received.  The  cover  design  is  excellent,  pic- 
tures are  good,  and  the  headings  of  each 
column  are  cleverly  drawn." 


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We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  following 
exchanges :  Artcsan,  State  Trade  School, 
Bridgeport,  Conn. ;  Abbott  Observer,  Abbott 
School,  Farmington,  Maine ;  Advance,  Salem 
High  School,  Salem,  Mass. ;  Boston  Univer- 
sity Beacon,  B.  Univ.,  Boston,  Mass. ;  Brim- 
mer School  Mag.,  Brimmer  School,  Boston, 
Mass. ;  Bluebird,  Julia  Richman  H.  S.,  New 
York,  N.  Y. ;  Critic,  Lynchburg,  Va. ; 
Crimson,  Goshen  H.  S.,  Goshen,  Ind. ; 
Central  High  News,  Central  H.  S., 
Minneapolis,  Minn. ;  Comet,  Glen  Ridge  H. 
S.,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. ;  Dean  Megaphone,  Dean 
Academy,  Franklin,  Mass. ;  Drury  Academy, 
Drury  H.  S.,  North  Adams,  Mass. ;  Dalhousie 
Gazette,  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia;  Elgin  H.  S. 
Mirror,  Elgin  H.  S.,  Elgin,  111. ;  Early  Trainer, 
Essey  Training  School,  Lawrence,  Mass. ; 
Echo,  High  School,  Winthrop,  Mass. ;  Ferry 
Tales,  Ferry  Hall,  Lake  Forest,  111. ;  Groto- 
nian,  Groton  School,  Groton,  Mass. ;  Golden 
Rod,  Quincy  H.  S.,  Quincy,  Mass. ;  Hotchkiss 
Monthly,  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn. ; 
Headlight,  Garfield  Jr.  H.  S.,  Richmond,  Ind. ; 
Keene  Kronicle,  Keene  Normal,  Keene,  N. 
H. ;  Lotus,  Dover  H.  S.,  Dover,  Del. ;  Mag- 
pie, St.  Margaret's,  Waterbury,  Conn. ;  Mirror, 
Pratt  County  H.  S.,  Pratt,  Kansas ;  Newton 
H.  S.  Reviezv,  Newton  H.  S.,  Newton,  Mass. ; 
Orange  and  Black,  Middletown  H.  S.,  Middle- 
town,  Conn. ;  Opinion,  Peoria  H.  S.,  Peoria, 
111. ;  Osborne  H.  S.  Record,  Osborne  H.  S., 
Osborne,  Mass. ;  Pilomath,  Framingham  H.  S., 
Framingham,  Mass. ;  Quill,  Staten  Is.  Acad- 
emy, Staten  Is. ;  Roman,  Rome  H.  S.,  Rome, 
Georgia ;  Rail  Splitter,  Lincoln  H.  S.,  Lin- 
coln, 111. ;  Sagamore,  Brookline  H.  S.,  Brook- 
line,  Mass. ;  Student,  Woodrow  Wilson  H.  S., 
Portsmouth,  Va. ;  Student's  Reviezv,  North 
Hampton,  Mass. ;  Triangle,  Misses  Hebbs 
School,  Wilmington,  Del. ;  Town  Crier,  New- 
ton Centre,  Mass. ;  Ye  Harcourt  Mayde,  Har- 
court  Place  School,  Gambrier,  Ohio. 


"Phone  on  back" 
Is  very  slack. 


JOKES 

(Continued  from  page  17) 
G.    Keniston:     "Is    there   any    relation   be- 
tween rhyme  and  rhythm?" 

K.  Forgie :    "Yes,  in  the  spelling." 


"The  ink  called  the  blotter  an  old  soak ;  then 
the  fight  started.  The  ruler  got  her  foot  into 
it  inch  by  inch,  and,  instead  of  helping  her 
out,  the  stamp  stuck  to  the  envelopes  and  let 
the  pen  holder.  The  keys  were  in  a  bunch, 
so  the  pencil  lead  them  away,  and  let  the 
paper  weight.  At  this  stage  of  the  battle  the 
paper  knife  stepped  in,  cut  out  the  fight  and 
silence  reigned  supreme." 


"How  long  can  a  goose  stand  on  one  leg  ?" 
"I  don't  know." 
"Try  it  and  see." 


Who  does  the  Statue  of  Liberty  flirt  with? 
The  swells  of  the  ocean,  the  buoys  of  the 
sea,  and  the  little  eddies  that  go  past. 


"What's  that  tooth  brush  for?" 
"That's   my  class   pin.      I   graduated   from 
Colgate."     Ex. 


THE  PURIST'S  PRIMER 


Folks  respected 
Don't  say  "complected." 
"Meet  Miss  Jones" 
Chills  my  bones. 


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Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 


Pemberton  7  Square 


BOSTON 


MASSACHUSETTS 


Telephone  686  Haymarket 


O'Connor  Coats  are 
just  the  kind  Lasell  girls 
delight  in — smart,  luxuri- 
ous, becoming,  expressing 
superior  style  and  quality. 
(One  is  sketched  at  right.) 


So  also  in  dresses, 
blouses,  suits,  hats, 
furs,  etc. ,  unusual 
styles  and  Values  are 
always  here. 


3.  $ .  (TGIunmir  Gin. 

157  Tremont  St.  Boston 


LASELL   LEAVES 


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CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


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We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices: 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-1 


Telephone,  Richmond  731-732 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL 


F.  M.  SCOBORIA 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7  New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 

(NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,  MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 

HOTEL  SUPPLIES 
57  and  58  N.  Market  St.  Boston 


LEATHER    NOVELTIES 

Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 


Hand  Bags 
Jewel  Cases 
Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape  Gloves  at  $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


60  Franklin  Street 
near  Washington  Street 


BOSTON 


P.  P  ADAMS 

Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 

business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

Best-Known     Shopping 

Place 

Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to    139   Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92  Bedford  Street,  Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry,  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NO&TH. 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  281 1 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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A  BOARDING  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS  AND  A  COUNTRY  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS,  AND  FOR  BOYS  UNDER  TEN 

THE  JUNIOR  DEPARTMENT  OF  LASELL  SEMINARY 

Located  in  the  attractive  and  comfortable  buildings  formerly  known  as  the  Woodland  Park  Hotel 

KINDERGARTEN  AND  ALL  GRAMMAR  GRADES 

Conversational  French,  Music  with  supervised  practice,  Drawing,  Sewing,  Folk  and 
Social  Dancing  and  Deportment,  Swimming  and  Riding ;  individual  attention ;  an  abundance 
of  good  wholesome  food,  fresh  air,  exercise  and  sleep. 

VISITORS  ALWAYS  WELCOME 

Come  and  see  the  school  and  talk  over  the  problem. 
For  catalogue  address 


PHONE,  NEWTON  WEST  630 


GUY  M.  WINSLOW 

AUBURNDALE,  MASS 


YOU  ARE 
INVITED 


to  visit  us  any  time.  You'll  find  much  to 
interest  you  here  at  the  Home  of  Every- 
thing in  Linens.  If  you  desire  the  best  m 
fine  linens — table  goods,  towels,  handker- 
chiefs; dainty  imported  or  domestic  un- 
derwear ;  laces,  veilings ;  or  related  items; 
at  moderate  cost;  command  our  expert 
services  at  your  pleasure. 

Mail  and  'phone  orders  promptly  and 
correctly  filled. 

T.  D.  Whitney  Company 

Everything  in  Linens 
WEST  STREET  TEMPLE  PLACE 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


i>ag  it  tmtlj  blowers 


(Eljarge  ammnta  Holtrifrd 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics   for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


HtUmenj  att&  Jura 


Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capita]   paid   in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90    and    92,    16   and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.   F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  CUMMING.  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,   McDUFFEE   &   STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


Telephone    Richmond    1647,     1648 

ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mgr. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese   and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established    1640 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


NEW 
PLAID 
SKIRTS 

$25.00 


Box  plaited  skirts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -       Boston 


L  P.  Hollander  Co. 

MISSES'   AND   YOUNG    LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 

Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


■IT 


1  he  Boston  Music  Co. 


(G.   Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :  Beach   1561 


ax  Brothers 

TZomsts 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

(Eljnto  Stoats 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  HomeReceipIs 

Packed   in   Stone  Jars 

A.  T.  BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 

Send  for   price  list  of  over  60   kinds 


LADIES*  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -         -  8.00  to        75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin    Guitars    and    Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -         $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.   BERMAN,   Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299  Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newton  West  965-J 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies '    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresses 

303  AUBURN  ST.,  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &    Sons 

AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newlon  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6   BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic    Work    a    Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1  45 


William    M.   Flanders    Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


The    most     delicate     and      delicious    flavored 
chocolate    to    be   found    anywhere 


Vol.  xxxxv 


No.  4 


JANUARY,  1920 


LASELL   LEAVES 


Students—  When  Sh 


opping 


Our  Main  Store  will  meet  your  wardrobe  demands  for  every 
occasion,  from  sports  apparel  to  dress-up  clothes,  including  all 
important  accessories. 

Our  Annex  will  provide  you  with  room  furnishings,  books, 
stationery  and  leather  goods. 

And  if  you  have  a  shopping  problem  consult  our  Shopping 
Counselor.     She  will  assist  you  free  of  charge. 

Jordan  Marsh  Company 


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New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 

Diamonds 

Silver  Goods 

Leather  Goods 

Watches 

Fancy  Bead  Chains                Fountain  Pens 

Bracelet  Watches 

Roman  Pearls 

Chafing  Dishes 

Platinum  Jewelry 

Cameo  Brooches 

Percolators 

Green  Gold  Jewelry 

Vanity  Cases 

Parisian  Ivory 
Ebony  Goods 
Panel  Minors 

Gold  Pocket  Knives 

Doreeo  Boxes 

Gold  Pencils 

Photo  Frames 

Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 

Our    Watch    and    Jewelry    Repair     Departments    do    the    best 

work  at  very  low   prices 

Engraving  Department 

Plate  and    100     Visiting     Cards,     Script     $2.75 
Plate  and    100   Visiting   Cards,   Old   Eng.   $4.75 

MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON     ...        -     AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


306  Fifth  Ave. 
392  Fifth  Ave. 

New  York 


0ST0N* 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting  and  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  on- 
looker say  to  himself:  "A  Perfect  Likeness!" — and  also  to 
our  mind  a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price, 
AS  OURS  DOES. 
WE  TAKE  PLEASURE  IN  ANNOUNCING  TO  THE  STUDENTS 
OF  LASELL  OUR  NEW  AND  EXCLUSIVE  PARIS  ETCHING 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Dress-smartness  is  not  merely  Style  —  it  is  Style  plus 
Good  Taste,  and  entirely  governed  by  the  latter. 
Slattery  Suits,  Coats,  Gowns  and  Accessories  for  women 
and  misses  are  notably  individual,  planned  to  fit  various 
types  —  yet  always  exclusive  and  of  refined  design. 
From  Hats  to  Hosiery,  from  Furs  to  the  lightest  Fan 
for  evening,   the  woman's  wants  are  considered. 

Betty  Wales  Frocks  Are  More  Delight- 
ful   This    Season     Than    Eoer    Before. 

E.T.  SLATTERY  CO. 

TREMONT  STREET -BOSTON 

Opposite  .Boston  Common 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Chenille  Rugs  and  Speed 


"THE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.  If  you  desire  to  adorn  a  room  or  hall  or  stairway 
with  these  superb  made-to-order  Rugs,  come  and  see  us  as  soon  as  possible,  as  some 
time  will  be  required. 

We  can  show  you  samples  of  all  colors  and  designs.  Our  know-how  men  will  take 
the  measurements  and  advise  as  to  tone  effects.     The  mills  will  do  the  rest. 

Plain  colors  with  two-tone  band  borders  are  favorites.  Speaking  of  plain  colors,  here 
are  a  few  of  the  many — grey,  blue,  green,  wistaria,  camel,  rose,  sand,  lavender,  cocoa,  taupe 
faun,  mulberry,  mole,  cafe-au-lait,  putty. 

These  made-to-measure  Rugs  are  seamless  up  to  thirty  feet  width.  Good  for  any  room 
and  good  the  year  round.     Soft  as  velvet  under  foot,   yet  last  for  years  and   years.     Wide 


range 


of 


prices. 


John  H.  Pray  &  Sons  Co. 

646  Washington  St.,  Opp.  Boylston,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON    HILL    STATIONERS 

Pemberton  7   Square 

BOSTON     -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


l^SELL    [EAVES 

Vol.  XXXXV        LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  JANUARY,  1920  No.  4 

Published   Monthly   from   October   to    June   by   the   Lasell    Seminary    Students. 

Entered  as   second-class   matter  at  the   Boston,   Mass.,   Post  Office. 

Acceptance   for  mailing   at    special   rate   of  postage  provided   for   in   Section   1103,  Act  of  October   3,    1917,   authorized  on  October  28,    191S. 


LIST  OF   OFFICERS 

Business    Manager 
KATHERINE  RICE 

Editor-in-Chief 
FRANCES   HEATH 

Subscription    Editor 
MARGARET    STEWART 

Local    Editors 

MARJORIE   HUSSEV 

HELEN   FILES 

Assistant    Editor 
HELEN   BALCOM 

Assistant 
LILLIAN    DOANE 

Joke    Editor 
DORIS    ROGERS 

Assistant 
MARION    WILLIAMS 

Art    Editors 

ELAINE   BASS 

DOROTHY    BALCH 

Athletic    Editor 
ELSIE  CROWELL 

Literary   Editor 
GLADYS  BURNET 

Exchange   Editors 

FLORENCE   KUHN 

FLORENCE  GREENE 

TERMS,  in  Advance:     One 

Copy,   one  year,    (including   postage),   $1.00. 

Single 

:   Copies,   15  cents. 

CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

Queer  Things,   Hats        Helen  Files  5 

Pride    Precedes   a  Fall Barbara  Strebeigh  6 

A  Schoolgirl  Quarrel Doris  Rogers  6 

EDITORIAL ..,...: 8 

LOCALS 10 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 12 

PERSONALS ■ 13 

JOKES i7 

EXCHANGES 18 

SUPPLEMENT 19 


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QUEER    THINGS,    HATS! 


Hats,  according  to  Webster's  are  "a  cover- 
ing for  the  head,"  but  what  should  a  man 
know  about  women's  hats  ?  Men's  hats,  may- 
be, are  that;  but  women's?  How  many  of 
their  wearers,  do  you  suppose,  actually  con- 
sider them  that?  The  ultimate  purpose  of 
a  lovely  woman's  hat  is  adornment,  decoration, 
and  sometimes  concealment.  To  prove  it  take, 
for  example,  a  "spring  hat,"  worn  in  January 
or  February.  (Oh,  yes  it  does  happen  often.) 
It  certainly  is  not  worn  for  warmth,  for  some 
spring  hats  are  thin,  to  say  the  least,  and 
furnish  slight  protection  from  the  biting  wind 
and  icy  weather  of  our  winter  months.  On 
the  other  hand,  consider  the  heavy  velvet, 
feather,  even  fur,  hats  one  sees  when  walking 
up  Fifth  Avenue  on  a  hot  August  afternoon. 
Are  the  straw  hats  used  for  a  covering  in 
winter,  and  the  felt  ones  for  protection  from 


(he    sun 


summer  ?      Perish    the    thought ! 


Their  sole  purpose  is  to  adorn  their  wearers, 
whose  whole  objective  is  to  be  in  style.  Large 
hats,  small  hats,  turbans,  toques,  and  picture- 
hats,  to  the  women  of  our  modern  world,  all 
are  merely  steps  on  the  road  to  attractiveness. 
Queer,  why  one  hat  is  more  becoming  to  you 
than  another,  and  why  some  other  person's 
hat  strikes  you  as  being  so  comically  peculiar ! 
Queer,  too,  why  some  like  feathers,  and  others 
hows ;  why  some  like  the  brims  tipped,  and 
others  straight.  Go  into  a  milliner's  and  watch 
the  crowd  there  trying  on  hats.  Many  choose 
a  shape  because  it  is  chic,  others  because  they 
like  the  color,  but  none,  I  repeat  it,  because 
of  its  original  purpose,  that  of  a  covering. 


Men  are  in  most  ways,  and  especially  in 
choosing  head  gear,  more  sensible  than  women. 
In  winter  they  wear  dark  hats,  and  in  sum- 
mer straw,  with  no  change  of  style,  or  but 
little,  and  certainly  no  addition  of  frills  or 
furbelows.  The  size,  and  comfortable  feeling 
is  their  sole  worry.  A  man  of  today  is  laughed 
at  if  he  tries  to  set  the  style  by  appearing 
either  too  early  or  too  late  in  a  straw  hat. 
Theirs  are  not  "creations,"  merely  prosaic 
"coverings."  Yet  it  was  not  always  thus. 
Look  back  in  the  history  of  fashion  and  see 
how  numerous  have  been  the  changes.  In 
Napoleon's  time  men  wore  three-cornered 
hats,  the  tri-cone.  so  called,  and  in  Washing- 
ton's day  cocked  hats;  and  if  we  go  back 
yet  further  in  the  distant  years,  we  find  many 
variations  in  kind  and  appearance.  The  pic- 
turesque hat  of  the  cavaliers  we  recall,  and 
the  uncompromising  head  gear  of  the  stern 
old  Puritans.  Thus  also  it  has  been  with  wo- 
men's hats.  There  was  a  time  when  custom 
bade  them  wear  shawls ;  f  rom  then,  up  to  the 
present  day,  when  every  new  phenomena  is 
greeted  with  applause,  the  hat  has  had  a 
myriad  shapes  and  methods  of  garniture.  Take, 
also,  the  different  countries  of  the  world.  Each 
has  its  own  especial  style,  that  of  the  Eastern 
world  differing  from  that  of  the  Western, 
and  not  only  the  characteristics  or  station  of 
a  person  but  the  identity  of  his  country,  as 
well,  being  apparent  in  the  hats  he  wears. 

Few  people  think  that  they  are  giving  away 
deep  secrets  of  their  disposition  in  the  hats 
they  choose,  but  such  is  the  case  ;  and  now 
that  you  think  of  it,  did  you  ever  see  a  social 
butterfly  in  a  severe  straight-brimmed  sailor, 


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or  an  athlete  in  a  hat  with  ostrich  feathers  ? 
A  person  with  a  perky  little  hat  you  may  judge 
to  be  quick  and  rather  snappy  in  disposition, 
while  a  soft  slouch  hat  may  be  fairly  safely 
interpreted  as  indicating  a  slow,  happy-go- 
lucky  sort  of  nature.  One  should  then,  choose 
wisely,  and  carefully.  Queer  things,  these 
hats! 

H.  Files,  '20. 


PRIDE    PRECEDES    A   FALL 


I  once  owned  a  small,  wire-haired  fox  ter- 
rier whom  some  unscrupulous  man  had  suc- 
ceeded in  selling  to  me  on  the  ground  of  its 
being  a  thoroughbred ;  and  I,  somewhat  awed 
by  its  long  pedigree,  had  bought  it  with  little 
hesitation.  Indeed  it  was  so  very  smart  that 
I  soon  became  greatly  attached  to  it. 

A  few  weeks  after  having  bought  the  ani- 
mal, whom  I  named  Winall,  I  decided  to  enter 
it  in  a  large  dog  show ;  accordingly,  having 
duly  scrubbed  my  little  pet,  I  carried  it  to 
the  show  and  entered  it  to  compete  with  many 
others  of  its  breed.  I  gave  it  a  velvet  cushion 
to  lie  upon  and  proudly  hung  its  pedigree 
where  it  could  be  seen  by  all.  Then  I  strolled 
through  the  building,  looking  at  other  fox- 
terriers,  comparing  pedigrees,  and  feeling  cer- 
tain that  my  little  Winall  was  by  far  the  best 
dog  in  the  show. 

The  great  moment  finally  arrived.  Proudly 
I  stepped  into  the  ring,  Winall  leading  the  way 
with  a  champion's  assurance  and  growling 
viciously  at  any  of  the  pampered  pets  that 
stood  in  his  way. 

How  foolish  it  was  I  thought  for  any  one 
even  to  dare  to  enter  his  dog  after  seeing  my 
splendid  Winall !  A  titter  arose  from  those 
viewing  the  judging  when  I  entered  the  ring. 
I,  myself,  smiled,  thinking  they  were  compar- 
ing the  other  canines  with  my  prospectve 
prize-winner. 

Then  the  judge  glanced  my  way.  What  a 
wonderful  moment,  I  thought.  He  stepped 
towards  me.  Surely  he  was  about  to  present 
me  with  the  blue  ribbon ;  he  began  to  speak ; 
I   could  hardly  hear  I   was  so   excited.     But 


what  was  this  he  was  saying?  A  dull  numb- 
ness seized  me;  I  could  not  think.  A  deep 
flush  overspread  my  stricken  face.  His  words 
were  clear  at  last — "Take  that  mongrel  out !" 
Barbara  Strcbeigh  '22. 


A  SCHOOLGIRL  QUARREL 


"No,  Mary,  I'm  not  going  to  stand  this  any 
longer  ;  either  you'll  have  to  find  another  room- 
mate or  I  will,"  declared  Judy,  as  she  walked 
toward  the  window.  "I  told  you  before  we 
came,  that  we  knew  each  other  too  well,  ever 
to  think  of  rooming  together." 

Mary  Richards  and  Judy  Munn  had  been 
at  boarding  school  just  two  weeks  when  they 
decided  that  they  were  entirely  too  well  ac- 
quainted to  be  roommates.  They  had,  how- 
ever, been  chums  in  a  small  western  city  for 
eight  years.  That  length  of  time  is  certainly 
long  enough  for  two  girls  to  get  to  know  each 
other's  faults  and  good  points. 

"Well  now,  Judy,  it  is  every  bit  your  fault, 
for  it  is  you  who  wants  your  bed  way  over 
there  under  the  window,  spoiling  the  whole 
effect  of  the  room,"  remarked  Mary,  pointing 
to  the  place  where  Judy  was  now  sitting. 

"I  like  fresh  air,  so  I  don't  intend  to  be 
stuck  way  up  there  in  that  measly  corner  by 
that  radiator,  which  bubbles  and  hisses  all  night 
long,"  proclaimed  Judy,  as  she  turned  away 
from  Mary  and  stared  out  of  the  window. 

"I  notice,  though,"  continued  Mary,  as  she 
powdered  her  nose,  "that  you  wanted  your 
dresser  just  under  the  light,  so  that  you  hair 
might  be  combed  just  to  suit  you,  but  I  guess 
I'll  have  to  use  my  imagination  when  it  comes 
to  combing  mine." 

"Yes,  but  who  took  the  best  dresser  in  the 
first  place?  Here  I  am  a  little  bit  of  a  thing- 
beside  you,  and  you  have  kindly  given  me  this 
ark  of  an  affair."  Just  then  Judy  jumped  up, 
went  to  the  dresser  and  said,  "Look  for  your- 
self, Mary.  Why,  I  can  scarcely  see  in  the 
top  drawer!" 

"Well,  I  will  change  dressers  with  you  if 
you  like,"  Mary  thoughtfuly  replied.  "Per- 
haps you  didn't  notice,  however,  that  I  gave 


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you  the  dresser  with  the  most  drawer  room." 

"You  certainly  weren't  feeliing  well  that 
day,  Mary ;  or  else  you  thought  that  you  never 
could  use  that  many  drawers  yourself,"  Judy 
retorted  with  a  snap. 

"Anyway,  you  have  the  best  looking  desk, 
and  the  best  looking  light  for  it  too,"  declared 
Mary,  as  she  went  to  her  own  desk  and  stood 
there  for  a  second  thinking.  Then  she  con- 
tinued, "Mine,  however,  is  here  by  the  window, 
so  I  can  look  out  and  see  everything  that  is 
going  on." 

"When  I'm  in  my  room  and  at  my  desk,  I 
shan't  want  to  look  out ;  so  I'm  perfectly  hap- 
py as  I  am,"  sneered  Judy. 

Then  slapping  Judy  on  the  wrist,  Mary  said 
teasingly,  "Well,  I  Miss  Munn,  how  conscien- 
tious you  are." 

"Mary  Richards,"  stormed  Judy,  "at  home 
you  were  at  least  tidy  about  your  room  and 
kept  things  in  place,  but  here, — Then  as  she 
pointed  around  the  room  she  continued.  "Just 
look  at  your  dresser !  Covered  with  powder, 
hairpins,  ribbons ;  your  shoes  poking  out  from 
under  the  bed,  your  stockings  over  the  back 
of  that  chair !  Look  at  your  bed,  too  !  Middy 
blouse,  tie,  bloomers,  petticoat,  skirt,  and  land 
knows  what  all !" 

"You  certainly  are  making  yourself  out  a 
little  tin  god  on  wheels.  Just  because  you 
didn't  go  to  gym,  and  because  your  friends 
don't  make  free  use  of  your  dresser,  that's  the 
reason,  and  all  of  it,  for  such  tidiness  on  your 
part!  A  little  disorder  doesn't  bother  me.  If 
I  want  to  be  in  a  neat  room,  I'll  go  visiting," 
replied  Mary,  as  she  hastily  moved  towards 
the  door. 

"Wait  now,  Mary,  before  you  go  out !  You 
have  neglected  to  hash  over  the  closet,  and  I 
know  there  is  something  to  be  said  about  it," 
said  Judy,  as  she  walked  towards  the  closet 
door,  then  opened  it,  so  that  Mary  might  look 
in  and  then  just  naturally  rave. 

But  much  to  Judy's  disappointment  Mary 
only  exclaimed  dramatically,  "Words  fail  me ! 
Let  us  be  thankful,  however,  for  one  thing, 
and  do  let's  be  sensible.    We  can't, — " 

Just  then  there  was  heard  a  rap  on  the  door 


and  the  corridor  teacher  entered.  "Well,  girls, 
what  is  all  this  trouble  about  ?  I  couldn't  help 
hearing  you  even  in  my  room." 

"Oh  we  aren't  getting  along  a  bit  well," 
answered  Mary,  "so  I  think  I'll  move."  The 
teacher  looked  very  much  surprised  and  sug- 
gested that  they  talk  things  over  with  her,  and 
see  if  some  more  friendly  conclusion  might  not 
be  made. 

It  was  almost  an  hour  later  that  the  teacher 
left  one  of  the  most  orderly  looking  rooms  in 
the  building,  with  an  assurance  from  both  girls 
that  everything  was  all  right  once  more,  and 
should  remain  so ;  and,  furthermore,  that  they 
wouldn't  let  that  little  quarrel  hurt  their  friend- 
ship for  each  other. 

D.  Rogers  '20. 


EDITORIAL 

The  Leaves  Staff  wishes  to  announce  that  the 
February  number  will  be  edited  by  the  Junior 
Class,  and  the  March  number  by  the  Senior 
class.  Show  some  real  class  spirit  and  help 
make  your  paper  the  better. 

Where  are  all  the  story-writers  of  our 
school  ?  The  Editors  once  more  beg  of  you  to 
hand  in  material — stories,  poems,  jokes,  songs, 
anything  that  you  think  would  add  to  our 
school  paper. 

Have  you  contributed  to  the  French  Orphan 
Fund?  Do  it  now  and  start  the  New  Year 
right. 

We  have  all  longed  for  snow.  Take  advan- 
tage of  it  when  it  does  come.  There  will  be 
skating,  coasting,  and  snow-shoeing,  all  of 
which  are  great  sport. 

Now  is  the  time  to  begin  a  new  page  in  our 
lives,  the  time  for  new  resolutions.  Just  as 
we  have  watched  the  old  year  depart,  so  we 
should  have  watched  our  old  faults,  habits,  and 
little  characteristics  which  were  not  pleasing, 
fly  away  with  it.  Each  girl  knows  her  own 
faults ;  she  alone  is  able  to  make  a  resolution 
which  will  benefit  herself.  Then  after  we 
have  begun  anew  let  us  try  to  abide  strictly 
by  our  promises. 


8 


LASELL    LEAVES 


It  is  by  this  so  called,  "Turning  over  a  New 
Leaf,"  that  we  shall  be  able  to  raise  our  school 
standard  as  well  as  our  class  spirit.  If  every 
girl  should  do  her  part,  just  think  ! — it  would 
be  possible  for  all  to  eat  breakfast  at  the  same 
time ;  there  would  be  no  one  to  put  on  restric- 
tions for  cutting  classes,  thus  Mr.  Towne 
would  lose  his  task  of  sending  out  little  type- 
written notes ;  and  we  might  even  be  able  to 
abolish  our  so  called  "Study  Hall." 

The  time  has  come  to  consider  the  Student 
Council  as  a  definite  and  important  factor  in 
our  school  life.  Partial  government  by  this 
group  is  a  privilege  conceded  by  the  faculty 
to  the  students.  We  must  not  abuse  the  con- 
fidence thus  placed  in  us.  We  have  chosen 
as  new  members  girls  who,  we  feel,  represent 
the  best  element  in  our  school.  We  must  not 
be  satisfied  merely  with  electing  members ; 
every  student  in  Lasell  must  feel  it  her  privi- 
lege, as  well  as  her  duty,  to  stand  behind  the 
organization  because  it  is  only  through  coop- 
eration that  its  work  can  be  accomplished.  A 
student  council  without  student  support  is  a 
certain  failure.  So  let  us  add  to  our  list  of 
New  Year's  resolutions  the  determination  to 
stand  by  and  with  the  Student  Council  of 
Lasell. 


/  Readers  of  The  Leaves  will  be  interested 
to  know  that  Lasell  Seminary  has  recently 
added  to  its  equipment  for  the  service  of  girls 
and- young  women,- a  summer  camp.  This  is 
Teconnet,  The  Island  Camp  for  Girls. 

If  you  will  take  the  large  Atlas  and  turn  to 
the  map  of  the  State  of  Maine,  you  will  find 
China  Lake  located  upon  a  height  of  land 
which  separates  the  valleys  of  the  Kennebec 
and  the  Penobscot  Rivers.  The  lake,  which 
is  twelve  miles  long,  nestles  among  the  beauti- 
ful rolling  hills ;  and  the  woodlands  and  well- 
kept  farms  add  much  to  the  beauty  of  its 
shores.  The  isle  of  Teconnet,  comprising 
about  six  acres  lies  hear  the  eastern  shore,  two 
miles  from  the  northern  end  of  the  lake.  It  is 
covered  with  beautiful  white  birches  with  here 
and  there  a  huge  oak  or  pine  and  the  formation 
of  the  land  makes  it  possible  for  each  tent  to 


face  directly  upon  the  waterfront.  There  are 
excellent  basketball  and  tennis  courts  and  the 
protection  offered  by  the  island  upon  the  west 
and  the  mainland  upon  the  east  makes  a  safe 
and  snug  harbor  for  canoeing,  boating  and 
swimming.  The  mainland,  only  eight  hundred 
yards  away,  is  easily  reached  and  offers  all  the 
opportunities  for  hiking  and  horseback  riding 
that  any  camp  can  furnish. 

Camp  Teconnet  was  established  in  1911  and 
has  from  the  beginning  been  under  the  man- 
agement and  direction  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  F.  Towne.  In  Mrs.  Towne  the  camp- 
ers have  always  found  a  wise  councilor,  guide 
and  friend  and  many  parents  have  learned  to 
rely  fully  upon  her  judgment  and  intelligence. 
While  the  new  arrangement  links  Teconnet 
more  closely  with  Lasell,  it  will  in  no  wise 
destroy  the  individuality  of  the  camp.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Towne  will  still  continue  to  direct  its 
activities  as  in  the  past  and  any  girl  whose 
qualifications  are  acceptable  will  be  welcomed 
into  the  family  of  Teconnet  and  will  be  as- 
sured of  an  interesting  and  profitable  summer. 

Guy  M.  Winslozv. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


STORY  OF  TECONNET 

(Tune:    "A  Little  Bit  of  Heaven") 

Have  you  ever  heard  the  story  of  Teconnet,  down  in  Maine? 

Come,  listen  while  we  sing  to  you  the  story  of  her  fame ; 
No  wonder  that  we're  proud  of  that  dear  isle  of  birches  white, 

For  it  has  so  many  memories  that  fill  us  with  delight : 
First,  they  found  the  dearest  island  in  the  midst  of  China  Sea 

And  they  lined  its  shores  with  tents,  as  homes  to  shelter  you  and  me; 
Then  maids  so  fair  were  gathered,  just  the  best  that  could  be  found, 

To  come  and  make  it  merry  as  the  summer  days  speed  round ; 
Then  the  councilors  were  added  for  our  guides  in  work  and  play, 

When  the  sun  is  shining  brightly,  or  on  a  rainy  day ; 
Next  they  filled  it  with  Camp  Spirit,  to  make  us  all  worth  while, 

And,  when  they  had  it  finished,  it  was  called  Teconnet  Isle. 


At  vesper  service  Sunday  evening,  Decem- 
ber 7,  the  speaker  was  the  Rev.  Dr.  McClure. 
His  talk  was  especially  adapted ,  to  students 
in  that  he  emphasized  the  necessity  of  doing 
our  job  in  life — no  matter  how  small  and  seem- 
ingly unimportant — to  the  best  of  our  ability. 

Christian  Endeavor  on  December  12  was 
led  by  Gladys  Burnet  who  gave  us  a  message 
of  Christmas.  In  her  talk  about  the  Christ- 
mas spirit  she  urged  us  to  do  what  we  could 
to  make  others  happy.  Miss  Potter  read  a 
beautiful  poem  "TheMadonna"  written  by 
Miss  Frances  Dillingham,  a  former  Lasell 
teacher.  The  service  was  closed  with  a  song 
by  Helen  Balcom. 


LA    PETITE    AFFAIRE 


The  French  Department  has  taken  upon  it- 
self, in  behalf  of  the  school,  the  task  of  fol- 
lowing the  good  example  set  by  numerous 
private  schools  throughout  the  country,  in  at- 
tempting to  raise  $2,000,  as  quickly  as  possible, 
with  which  to  build  a  Lasell  "the  second" 
somewhere  in  France. 

The  first  step  of  importance  toward  this  goal 
was  taken  by  French  II,  when  they  held  a  fair 
in  the  gymnasium,  Saturday  afternoon  and 
evening,  December  6. 


"La  Petite  Affaire"  was  a  big  success,  con- 
sidering the  small  number  and  limited  variety 
of  the  articles  on  sale.  Dainty,  fancy  articles, 
which  were  contributed  by  members  of  the 
school,  sold  rapidly  from  a  gayly  decorated 
Italian  vender's  cart  which  was  piloted  by  mer- 
chants, garbed  in  the  bright  reds  and  yellows 
of  sunny  Italy.  Japan  was  cleverly  repre- 
sented at  Miss  Whitmarsh's  booth  where  tea 
and  rice  cakes  were  served  by  natives  to  pat- 
rons who  sat  on  the  floor  behind  Japanese 
screens  which  were  covered  by  branches — 
fairly  bursting  with  pink  apple-blossoms.  At 
{he  French  booth,  neatly  trimmed  in  its  stripes 
of  red,  white,  and  blue,  were  seen  two  pretty 
and  charming  French  peasants,  selling  REAL 
French  pastry  and  cakes  which  had  been  do- 
nated by  members  of  French  II.  Candy,  alas, 
was  rather  scarce  owing  to  the  sugar  situation, 
but  in  spite  of  this  draw-back,  Virginia  Walter 
did  well  as  Chief  Candy  Maker;  and  the  candy 
of  Walter  brand,  looking  askance  at  some 
Page  and  Shaw  (the  donation  of  Mr.  Dangel- 
meyer )  at  its  side,  felt  very  important,  we 
must  say,  as  it  sold  equally  as  well  as  its  titled 
rival,  at  the  American  booth  with  its  draperies 
and  streamers  of  red,  white  and  blue.  Can- 
teen No.  23,  with  its  glaring  signs  of  red  and 
black,    its    syncopated   music   of   v'ctrola   and 


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11 


piano,  drew  crowds  which  paused  to  view  war 
relics  and  to  eat  ice-cream  cones  and  sand- 
wiches. This  booth  ranked  with  the  side- 
shows and  fortune-tellers'  booths  as  the  most 
popular  features  of  the  day. 

"See  your  future  husband  for  3c,"  "Suzetta 
Motouishi,  World's  Champion  Heavy  weight. 
Can  lift  1,000  lbs.  with  one  hand!",  "Take  a 
chance,  guess  correctly  and  get  a  cake  !",  "Stop, 
Look,  Listen !  One  of  the  seven  wonders  of 
the  world.  The  Bearded  Lay."  "Memory 
books  autographed  by  Mary  Pickford.  Don't 
miss  this  chance."  Such  were  the  cries  which 
stirred  curiosity  as  to  the  contents  of  those 
mysterious  little  tents, — the  Side  Shows. 

The  success  of  the  fair  was  due  to  the  won- 
derful co-operation  of  every  member  of  the 
French  II  Class.  Everyone  of  them  dfd  her 
part  and  did  it  well.  Dorothy  Balch  was  ap- 
pointed chairman  of  the  booths  and  her  origin- 
ality helped  greatly.  It  is  estimated  that  $138 
was  cleared.  This  is,  of  course,  a  long  way 
from  $2,000,  but  if  the  school  as  a  whole  will 
be  loyal  in  its  support,  both  with  enthusiasm 
and  financial  aid  of  every  effort  that  will  be 
made  in  behalf  of  the  fund,  we  shall  not  come 
in  behind — well,  Dana  Hall  for  instance,  which 
already  has  the  town  for  its  school  chosen 
and  has  launched  a  pledge  system  in  order  to 
raise  the  necessary  sum. 

The  address  at  the  Christmas  Vespers  on 
December  14  was  given  by  the  Rev.  J.  Edgar 
Park  of  West  Newton.  The  processional  was 
led  by  the  members  of  the  Glee  Club,  who  took 
their  places  on  the  platform.  Then  they  sang 
some  of  the  beautiful  old  Christmas  carols, 
which  were  very  much  enjoyed. 

In  an  interesting  way  Mr.  Park  made  it 
•clear  that  our  lives  are  long  plains  with  sud- 
den peaks  of  joy  in  them.  He  defined  Christ- 
mas as  an  attempt  to  get  everyone  to  go  up  into 
a  peak  experience,  and  have  extreme  joy.  In 
telling  the  history  of  the  celebration  of  Christ- 
mas, he  showed  us  that  we  owed  the  revival 
of  it  to  two  different  sources.  The  first  source 
was  the  renewed  interest  in  the  early  Italian 
painters  and  in  the  writers  of  old  Christmas 
Carols.     The  people  of  these  classes  showed 


that  God  was  to  be  found  not  in  the  heaven 
but  in  the  unconsidered  trifles  of  the  world. 
One  important  thing  that  the  Italian  painters 
achieved  was  to  impress  upon  people  the  fact 
that  Christ  was  most  truly  represented  by  a 
little  child.  The  second  source  of  Christmas 
celebration  was  the  work  of  Charles  Dickens 
who  did  much  to  create  the  modern  Christmas, 
for  he  believed  in  the  eternal  righteousness  of 
fun. 

In  closing  Mr.  Park  urged  that  we  try  to 
make  people  happy  on  Christmas  day  and  as 
far  as  possible  see  to  it  that  the  postman  passes 
no  house. 

The  Christmas  dinner  on  Dec.  17  was  cer- 
tainly a  very  jolly  affair.  The  girls  from 
Woodland  Park  were  with  us  and  added  their 
share  to  the  Lasell  spirit  of  merriment  and 
good  fellowship.  A  table  in  the  alcove  had 
been  reserved  for  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and 
their  guests,  all  of  whom  entered  heartily  into 
the  fun.  With  the  reading  of  slams,  the  sing- 
ing "by  request"  and  the  promenading — not 
to  mention  the  eating  of  the  delicious  dinner 
— the  time  was  spent  quickly  and  joyously. 
The  Seniors  had  made  the  tables  unusually 
attractive  and  thus  helped  to  give  a  really 
Christmas  atmosphere. 


THE  STEPHEN  LEACOCK  LECTURE 

By  securing  Stephen  Leacock  as  the  lec- 
turer on  December  17,  Dr.  Winslow  gave  the 
school  and  the  people  of  Auburn  dale  a  most 
delightful  evening.  By  many  Dr.  Leacock  is 
regarded  as  the  leading  humorist  of  the  pres- 
ent time.  His  whimsical  nonsense  novels  and 
satires  have  appeared  in  the  foremost  periodi- 
cals of  England,  Canada  and  America  as  well 
as  in  book  form.  "What  I  Don't  Know  about 
Literature"  was  the  subject  of  his  lecture. 
After  discussing  in  a  semi-serious  way  the 
indoor  and  outdoor  novels  of  the  nineteenth 
century,  he  satirised  the  modern  novel  and 
read  a  clever  "Sample  of  a  Thousand  Guinea 
Novel,  Spoof."  In  this  the  heroine.  Mrs. 
Ovcrgold,  consents  to-  elope  with  the  hero 
Lancy  dc  Vcrc,  or  Dc  Verc  Lancy,  but  only 


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on  condition  that  she  bring  with  her,  her  hus- 
band, the  second  chauffeur,  the  second  foot- 
man and  the  third  housemaid. 

Those  who  did  not  hear  this  "laughing  phil- 
osopher" speak  certainly  missed  an  evening 
of  rare  fun. 


Basketball  came  almost  to  a  halt,  because 
the  girls  chosen  to  play  failed  to  appear  at 
their  scheduled  time.  The  Athletic  Associa- 
tion, having  decided  this  wouldn't  do,  devised 
a  new  plan,  that  of  having  class  teams  and  in- 
terclass  games.  The  Seniors  chose  as  their 
manager,  Eloise  Carey  and  the  Juniors  chose 
Carolyn  Brooks.  These  girls  are  already  busv 
and  as  a  result  many  girls  are  out  to  make  their 
class  team.  The  Sophomores  are  out  in  full 
force,  too,  but  have  not  yet  selected  their  man- 
ager. The  girls  who  play  are  now  practicing 
faithfully,  so  it's  up  to  those  who  do  not  to 
back  their  class  team  with  pep  and  enthusiasm. 
We  hope  the  Freshmen  will  soon  make  their 
appearance.  Basketball  is  the  big  Lasell  sport. 
Let's  all  get  behind  it. 


WOODLAND    PARK    NOTES 


CHRISTMAS  VESPERS 

With  the  freshly-fallen  snow  without  and 
the  glow  of  the  bright  candles  within,  Wood- 
land Park  School" enjoyed  a  very  sweet  Christ- 
mas Vesper  service  on  Sunday  afternoon,  the 
fourteenth  of  December.  It  was  a  great  hap- 
piness to  have  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  a 
number  of  parents  and  friends  present. 

The  simple  service  opened  with  a  proces- 
sional, one  of  the  lovely  old  carols.  Each  girl 
held  a  lighted  candle.  The  school  sang  also 
a  number  of  other  carols  during  the  course 
of  the  afternoon.  It  was  a  great  pleasure  to 
have  Dr.  Butters  present  to  assist  in  the  ser- 
vice. Everyone  was  charmed  with  an  original 
story  he  read  called  "The  Crooked  Christmas 
Tree."  May  we  all  be  made  happier  by  the 
spirit  of  unselfishness  which  it  taught  us. 


THE  FIRST  CHRISTMAS  TREE  AT  WOODLAND 
PARK  SCHOOL 

On  Thursday  morning,  December  eighteenth. 
Woodland  Park  School  was  so  glad  to  wel- 
come some  of  the  parents  to  a  little  program 
which  had  been  prepared  to  remind  us  all  that 
the  Christmastide  was  near.  We  only  wish 
we  might  have  had  all  the  parents  with  us. 

When  the  children  entered  the  Assembly 
Room,  there  was  great  surprise  among  them 
to  discover  that  Father  Christmas  had  started 
early  on  his  rounds  and  dropped  a  beautiful 
Christmas  tree  down  in  the  corner  for  their 
own  special  use  and  enjoyment. 

The  program  was  simple,  but  enjoyable  be- 
cause it  expressed  the  work  of  the  school. 
Nothing  could  be  sweeter  than  "Twas  the 
Night  before  Christmas"  and  "Away  in  a 
Manger,"  given  us  by  the  Kindergarten.  Es- 
pecially interesting  were  the  original  Christ- 
mas stories  by  members  of  the  seventh  and 
eighth  grades.  Thoughtfully  written  and  care- 
fully learned,  all  enjoyed  the  sweet  way  in 
which  they  were  given  to  us.  We  are  sure 
that  later  we  shall  hear  from  these  young  la- 
dies in  the  literary  world. 

A  happy  climax  for  the  children  was  the 
dstribution  of  some  sweets.  Mrs.  Winslow 
gave  out  stockings  of  candy  and  nuts,  and 
Mrs.  Towne  presented  each  one  with  a  snowy 
pop-corn  ball. 

We  wish  for  all  a  New  Year  through  which 
the  spirit  of  the  Yuletide  may  linger. 


SANTA  CLAUS'  GUESTS 

"Twas  the  night  before  Christmas,  when 
all  through  the  house,  not  a  creature  was  stir- 
ring,"— but  Jack  and  Jill.  Jack  and  Jill  were 
dear  little  twins,  sometimes  naughty,  and  some- 
times good. 

Late  at  night  after  their  mother  and  father 
had  gone  to  sleep,  they  tiptoed  down  to  hide 
in  the  playroom,  and  wait  for  Santa  Claus. 
They  took  some  pillows,  and  sat  down  to  wait 
behind  the  play-room  door. 

Sure  enough  !  just  as  the  clock  struck  twelve, 
who  should  come  bouncing  down  the  chimney,, 
but  fat  jolly  Santa  Claus  himself? 


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After  he  had  filled  the  stockings,  and  trim- 
med the  tree,  he  turned  to  go,  but  spied  the 
sleeping  children.  "Well,  well,  well,"  he  said, 
"So  you  are  waiting  for  Santa  Claus." 

He  bundled  them  up  in  a  great  fur  coat,  and 
hurried  them  to  the  waiting  sleigh.  Then 
over  the  house  tops  the  reindeer  sped,  until 
they  reached   Santa's   home. 

They  had  just  the  best  time  you  could  ever 
•dream  of  in  Santa's  toy  shop.  But  finally  he 
said,  "Come  it  is  time  to  hurry  back  to  earth." 

Just  as  Santa  Claus  got  them  back  in  their 
own  little  beds  again  their  mother  came  in  and 
said,  "Merry  Christmas,  Jack !  Merry  Christ- 
mas, Jill !  It  is  time  to  go  and  look  at  your 
stockings."  Then  they  told  her  all  about  their 
visit  to  Santa's  toy  shop.  "Oh !"  said  mother, 
"I  am  so  glad  Santa  brought  you  back  again  in 
time  to  be  my  Christmas  gift." 

She  never  told  them  how  their  father  had 
found  them  sound  asleep  behind  the  door  in 
the  play-room,  and  had  brought  them  back  to 
bed  again,  or  they  might  have  thought  they 
had  been  dreaming. 

Virginia  Hcndrie, 

Woodland  Park  School. 


THE  FIRST  CHRISTMAS  TREE 

Never  since  the  little  cedar  tree  had  lived 
in  the  forest,  had  he  seen  such  a  wonderft.il 
sight  as  was  in  the  sky. 

"The  whole  heavens  seem  to  be  on  fire," 
cried  the  little  cedar,  "and  the  stars  are  danc- 
ing among  the  clouds.  Angels  have  come 
down  and  the  shepherds  are  listening  to  some- 
thing," 

"The  angels  seem  to  be  singing,"  said  a  fir 
tree  "yes  and  the  shepherds  on  the  hills  are 
joining  in  the  chorus." 

"Hark  the  herald  angels  sing 
This  is  Christ  the  new  born  king." 

As  the  years  went  on  and  the  little  cedar 
had  grown  older,  a  little  child  came  often  and 
played  under  its  soft  green  branches,  a  little 
child  with  a  halo  of  light  about  his  head  and 
with  great  love  in  his  heart. 

Some  years  after,  a  man  came  and  some- 


times he  knelt  and  prayed  under  the  protect- 
ing branches  of  the  little  cedar.  One  day  he 
did  not  come  but  a  new  glory  was  in  the  sky 
and  the  forest  and  the  mountains  sang  a  new 
song. 

Today  little  evergreen  trees  bless  many  a 
home  at  Christmas  time  and  always  about 
them,  hovers  the  spirit  of  the  little  Christ 
Child— Peace  On  Earth,  Good  Will  T'ward 
Men. 

Esther  Ann  Curtis, 

Woodland  Park  School. 


Wedding  bells  chime  in  with  Christmas  bells 
very  naturally  in  December  and  this  time  their 
joyous  notes  proclaim  the  marriage  of  our  dear 
Priscilla  Alden,  '19,  to  Mr.  Leonard  Perry 
Wolfe,  on  December  twenty-fourth. 

Along  with  this  glad  news  comes  the  an- 
nouncement of  the  engagement  of  Katherine 
Laton  Dearborn,  '16  and  Mr.  Frank  Homer 
Wingate. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of 
Mary  Elizabeth  Canfield,  '17,  to  Mr.  Town- 
send  Van  Glahn.'has  been  made. 

Mildred  Janet  Cary's,  '18,  Christmas  card 
was  indeed  unique  and  came  in  the  form  of  a 
beautiful  Christmas  and  New  Year  Greeting 
announcing  her  engagement  to  Mr.  Carl  Les- 
lie Eaton. 

We  extend  our  congratulations  to  these 
young  friends  in  the  same  joyous  strain  be- 
fitting the  season. 

Speaking  of  Christmas,  two  of  the  most 
novel  Christmas  greetings  which  came  to 
Lasell  this  Yuletide  were  a  package  of  beauti- 
ful records  sent  to  the  school  victrola  by  the 


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Class  of  1917.  The  old  girls  may  remember 
that  this  victrola  was  the  gift  of  the  Class  of 
1917  to  their  Alma  Mater. 

A  real  Christmas  box  came  all  the  way  from 
Pasadena,  California,  to  Miss  Witherbee  and 
our  Preceptress  from  none  other  than  Edith 
Simonds  Bennett.  The  label  ran  something 
like  this,  ''I  am  sending  Miss  Witherbee  and 
you  each  a  taste  of  California"  and  that  taste 
included  Guava  jelly,  fig  and  loganberry  jam 
and  the  dear  sender  adds,  "Think  kind 
thoughts  of  California  and  of  me  with  each 
spoonful."  It  is  well  this  tempting  Christmas 
box  arrived  during  vacation  for  such  goodies 
certainly  would  not  pass  the  censors  in  school 
time.  Edith  adds,  "Mildred  Johnston,  '06,  is 
in  town  for  the  winter." 

Ella  Stedman  Frank,  '82,  writes  on  her 
Christmas  card,  "My  dear  son  is  in  this  coun- 
try again  and  I  am  so  grateful.  He  brought 
me  a  very  charming  daughter.  One  of  the 
Leaves'  editors  chances  to  know1  that  this 
"charming  daughter  of  Ella's  is  an  English 
girl  who  did  some  remarkable  work  in  Paris 
during  the  war  and  it  was  there  that  she  met 
Ella's  distinguished  son. 

Our  Registrar,  the  editor  of  the  Supplement, 
will  tell  all  about  the  splendid  Lasell  scheme 
which  Dorothy  Stewart  Allen,  '17,  has  in  mind. 
In  glancing  over  her  letter  we  notice  she  an- 
nounces that  Harriet  Morris,  '18,  is  to  be  at 
home  in  Toledo  this  winter  and  they  hope  to 
meet  frequently.  "Dorothy  adds  this  charm- 
ing bit  about  her  little  baby,  "She  is  just  begin- 
ning to  walk  and  is  so  proud  of  herself  that 
she  cries,  during  the  whole  performance,  'Look  ! 
Look !'  She  seems  not  to  have  due  respect  f  oi- 
lier mother  for  she  calls  me  'Dorty.'  She  is 
a  dear  little  blessing."  Dorothy  extends  spe- 
cial greetings  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and 
Miss  Witherbee  and  others  of  the  faculty  who 
may  remember  her. 

In  a  recent  letter  from  Clara  Nims,  '07,  she 
tells  us  of  the  good  fortune  which  has  come 
again  to  Edna  Rogers  Carlisle,  'OS,  another 
little  daughter  in  her  home. 

Our  Principal  has  recently  received  a  com- 


munication from  the  Secretary  to  the  Regis- 
trar at  Boston  University  which  reads  thus, 
"I  am  sure  that  you  will  be  interested  to  learn 
of  the  honor  which  has  been  conferred  upon 
one  of  your  former  pupils.  Miss  Maria  T. 
Orozco  has  been  elected  Secretary  of  the 
Spanish  Club  of  Boston  University." 

It  was  a  great  disappointment  to  Edith 
Ebersole  Doud,  '03,  that  she  failed  to  see  our 
Principal  and  his  family  during  her  visit  in 
Auburndale.  The  disappointment  was  mutual 
fo-r  Lasell  always  keeps  a  warm  place  in  her 
heart  for  the  Ebersole  sisters.  She  was  es- 
pecially interested  to  have  her  husband,  Mr. 
Doud,  visit  her  Alma  Mater  and  this  she 
achieved,  even  taking  him  to  the  very  rooms 
which  she  occupied  during  the  happy  school 
days.  Although  Edith's  sojourn  in  the  East 
was  a  disappointment  on  account  of  the  se- 
rious illness  of  her  daughter  she  did  have  a 
wee  visit  with  Annie  Mae  Pinkham  Allyn,  '02, 
and  Mrs.  Fred  Allyn  and  her  lovely  family 
and  then  at  Boothbay  she  was  entertained  -by 
the  Poolers  where  she  had  a  week  of  quiet 
pleasure.  Of  these  New  England  friends,  she 
writes  that  Mabel,  '03,  is  fine  and  Florence, 
'01,  is  well  too.  She  sends  special  remem- 
brances to  Miss  Mullikin  and  other  teachers. 

Our  Associate  Principal  recently  addressed 
the  Men's  Class  at  the  Centenary  M.  E. 
Church.  His  talk  on  Americanization  was 
greatly  appreciated  by  those  who  had  the 
privilege  of  hearing  him.  Mr.  Towne's  spe- 
cial topic  is  Americanization  and  there  are 
probably  few  men  in  New  England  better  in- 
formed on  this  subject  and  more  able  to  pre- 
sent it. 

The  beautiful  Christmas  cards  which  came 
to  Lasell  at  this  Yuletide  were  like  a  shower 
of  blessings.  Aside  from  their  intrinsic  value 
was  the  loving  thought  back  of  the  sending. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  our  Preceptress 
wish  to  take  this  opportunity  of  expressing 
their  hearty  appreciation  of  the  kindness  of 
this  host  of  Lasell  girls,  old  and  new,  and 
wishing  for  them  each  one  a  very  Happy  New 
Year. 


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A  recent  speaker  at  the  Twentieth  Century 
Club  of  Boston  in  reply  to  inquiry  made  by 
the  friends  of  Prof.  Henry  Turner  Bailey  re- 
marked, "We  are  very  fond  of  him  out  in 
Cleveland.  You  can  get  some  idea  of  how 
busy  he  is  when  he  is  so  in  demand  as  a  lec- 
turer that  he  recently  had  to  give  the  same 
lecture  twice  during  one  evening."  Lasell 
rejoices  always  over  any  good  which  comes 
to  this  loyal  friend  and  patron.  Those  of  us 
who  were  favored  in  receiving  a  Christmas 
greeting  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bailey  are  in 
possession  of  a  very  fine  reproduction  of  his 
pencil  sketch  entitled,  "The  Spire,"  but  which 
he  has  rechristened  "The  Christmas  Tree,"  in 
as  much  as  in  the  foreground  of  the  old  North 
Scituate  church,  (the  subject  of  his  sketch), 
is  a  beautiful  real  Christmas  tree. 

Another  of  our  distinguished  patrons   sent 
this  interesting  message  at  Christmastide : 
"What?     Too  grown  up  for  Christmas  toys? 
Then  take  my  wish  for  Christmas  joys, 
Not  only  on  this  day  of  bliss 
But  every  Christmas   after  this !" 

Denis  A.  McCarthy. 
Bess  House  McMillan  never  forgets  her 
Alma  Mater.  Her  New  Year's  card  contains 
a  beautiful  colored  photograph  of  their  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota,  home  and  underneath,  this 
message : 

"We  just  shake  hands  at  meeting 

With  many  that  come  nigh. 
We  nod  the  head  in  greeting 

To  many  that  go  by, 
But  we  welcome  through  the  doorway 

Our  old   friends  tried  and  true ; 
Our  hearts  leap  up  and  straightway 
There's   open  house   for  you, 
Old  friend,  there's  open  house  for  you." 
In  her  Christmas  card  to   our   Preceptress 
Nell   Jones   Yeomans,    '05,   sends   a   charming 
photograph  of  her  new  home. 

Miss  Caroline  F.  Chase,  formerly  of  the 
Woodland  Park  School,  was  entertained  dur- 
ing the  Christmas  vacation  by  Mrs.  Statira 
McDonald  at  Woodland  Park. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Ransom  Hazelet  was  also  a  wel- 
come guest  of  her  sister  Mrs.  William  Wagner 
at  Woodland   Park. 


A  friendly  New  Year's  greeting  from  Kath- 
erine  Katz  tells  us  that  she  is  enjoying  her 
second  year  at  the  University  of  Vermont.  In 
addition  to  the  Liberal  Arts  course  she  is 
specializing  in  Music.  She  likes  her  Univer- 
sity home  school  very  much  but  nothing  can 
take  the  place  of  Lasell  in  her  affections.  A 
Happy  New  Year  to  loyal  Katherine. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abel  H.  Chase  (Minnie  L. 
Chase,  '07),  were  doubly  blessed  on  Decem- 
ber 2nd  by  the  arrival  in  their  home  of  twin 
daughters,  little  Alice  and  Lois.  Lasell  ex- 
tends its  usual  cordial  welcome  to  these  little 
on-coming  Lasell  girls  and  also  to  their  par- 
ents. 

In  a  personal  note  to  our  Principal  Olive 
Bates  Dumas,  '10,  promises  to  visit  Lasell  in 
the  near  future  and  extends  cordial  greetings 
to  our  Principal's  family,  Miss  Witherbee  and 
others,  and  very  properly  encloses  her  sub- 
scription for  the  Leaves. 

Doro'.hy  Payne  Whiteway,  '14,  declares  that 
she  has  had  a  longing  to  return  to  her  Alma 
Mater  each  Commencement  time.  "This  past 
year  I  have  felt  nearer  to  Lasell  because  I  dis- 
covered that  Lois  Brader,  '14,  was  living  in 
Philadelphia  and  we  meet  as  often  as  we  can 
and  talk  over  all  the  good  times  we  had  while 
at  Lasell.  Lately  we  have  been  talking  of 
forming  a  Philadelphia  Lasell  Club  and  I 
hope  that  it  will  actually  materialize."  (By 
the  way,  Dorothy,  Elizabeth  Carlile,  '17,  has 
promised  to  do  the  same  thing  and  together 
you  certainly  ought  to  make  it  a  "go.")  "As 
usual,  I  am  looking  forward  to  the  New  York 
Lasell  Club  meeting.  I  hope  to  take  Lois  and 
Elsie  Doleman,  '14,  over  with  me  so  that  1914 
will  be  better  represented  than  last  year.  El- 
sie, as  you  doubtless  know,  is  teaching  at  Darl- 
ington Seminary  in  West  Chester,  Pa." 
Speaking  of  her  large  garden  and  fine  play- 
ground for  her  children,  Dorothy  also  speaks 
of  having  last  fall  put  up  pears  and  grapes 
from  their  own  trees  and  vines.  She  closes  by 
rejoicing  over  the  large  enrollment  at  Lasell 
which  makes  her  more  eager  than  ever  to  re- 
turn to  her  Alma  Mater. 

Leontine  Goodman,  '18,  writes,  "This  seems 


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an  opportune  time  to  send  you  the  latest  bit  of 
Lasell  news.  Gladys  Goodman  Stern,  has  a 
baby  daughter  born  December  28th  whom 
they  have  named  Margery  Jane.  Of  course 
we  are  very  happy  and  trust  the  little  one  will 
follow  in  our  footsteps  by  having  a  few  profit- 
able and  happy  years  at  Lasell."  She  also 
writes,  "Did  you  know  that  Bernice  Cohn,  '18, 
was  married  October  18th  and  is  now  Mrs. 
Ralph  Eltlinger  and  is  living  in  Chicago?" 
No,  we  did  not,  Leontine,  and  are  glad  for  this 
good  news  concerning  Bernice.  "Adele  Chaf- 
fee is  in  England,  goes  soon  to  the  Continent 
to  remain  until  March.  She  has  announced 
her  engagement  to  Sydney  Higgins  and  plans 
to  live  in  Minneapolis."  Leontine  is  keeping 
busy  with  a  secretarial  position  at  the  State 
Capitol  doing  some  interesting  work  in  con- 
nection with  a  Farmers'  Industrial  Week  to 
be  held  in  February.  She  sends  her  cordial 
greetings  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty. 

Evelyn  Dunham  Mason,  '15,  speaks  of  Clara 
Perry's  enthusiasm  over  Lasell.  By  the  way, 
Clara,  we  were  "right  down  sorry"  that  you 
did  not  come  back  to  us  this  year.  Evelyn 
declares  she  will  never  forget  her  happy  days 
at  the  old  school  and  is  hoping  to  come  back 
to  the  reunion  with  her  husband  later  on. 

Marion  Hale  Bottomley,  '10,  sends  word 
from  Maine  that  she  is  certainly  anticipating 
forming  a  Maine  Lasell  Club.  "When  I 
come  down  in  June  for  my  tenth  reunion  I 
will  try  to  have  a  plan  of  campaign  and  talk 
it  over  with  Dr.  Winslow."  She  also  sends 
greetings  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  Miss  Pot- 
ter and  others. 

Ida  Capron  Cook,  '63,  sends  a  personal  let- 
ter to  Dr.  Winslow.  She  doesn't  forget  her 
Alma  Mater  and  keeps  in  touch  with  the  Chi- 
cago Lasell  girls  to  the  extent  of  meeting  with 
them  at  their  reunions. 

During  the  holiday  season  there  was  quite 
a  reunion  of  truly  old  Lasell  girls  as  the  guest 
of  Mrs.  William  Wagner  at  the  Woodland 
Park.  Miss  Ransom  was  on  from  Pasadena. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Ransom  Hazelet  from  Williams- 


port,  Pa.,  Louise  E.  Curtis  and  our  Precep- 
tress representing  the  Class  of  '80. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G.  Redmond  an- 
nounce the  engagement  of  their  daughter 
Dorothy  Hanna,  '17,  to  Mr.  Herald  Addison 
Jones. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  Berman  announce  the 
engagement  of  their  daughter  Reva  Leah  to 
Mr.  Joseph  Seligmann  Batt  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Alleda  Burnett,  '14,  very  kindly  took  dinner 
with  us  at  Lasell  recently  and  brought  with 
her  as  our  guest  of  honor  her  father.  It  was 
Mr.  Burnett's  first  visit  to  Alleda's  Alma  Ma- 
ter and  we  certainly  felt  pleased  to  have  them 
with  us. 

A  recent  daily  paper  from  Palm  Beach, 
Florida,  announces  the  death  of  Dr.  Henry  C. 
Hood,  father  of  Helen  B.  Hood,  '10.  Dr. 
Hood  was  devoted  to  his  profession  and  yet 
gave  generously  of  his  time  to  public  service  as 
he  filled  a  prominent  position  on  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees  and  at  one  time  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  State  Legislature.  Our  sin- 
cere sympathy  is  extended  to  this  schoolmate 
and  her  bereaved  family. 


THE  NEXT  SUPPLEMENT 


On  account  of  the  special  features  of 
the  February  and  March  LEAVES  the  Sup- 
plement  will   next  appear    in    the    April 

number. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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JOKES 

*'8ender  tale  I  now  rel8 

In  figur8ive  speech.     A  f8 

Gave  me  no  power  to  corusc8 

In  metaphor  and  trophe  or8. 

I'll   use   my   lowlier   gifts   and   st8 

My  facts  in  humble  figure  8. 

Young,  beautiful  and  lissome  K8 

Was  loved  and  wooed  by  William  W8, 

Daily  as  they  together  s8 

And  nightly  at  the  garden  g8. 

Yet  when  he'd  ask  her  if  she'd  m8 

She  ever  answered  William  W8. 

He  showed  her  all  his  love  so  gr8 

He   argued   every   night  till   18. 

He  pled  with  her  to  fix  the  d8. 

But  she  would  not  particip8 — 

In  his  long  amorous  deb8 

But  would  her   forehead  corrug8 

And  coyly  answer  William  W8." 

—Ex. 


"Dear   Lady  in  the   Seat   Behind, 

My   morning   paper   reading, 

I   hope  you're  graciously  inclined 

To  hear  my  simple  pleading. 

This  favor  slight  on  me  bestow 

And  pacify  my   rage — ■ 

When  you're  through  reading  let  me  know, 

So  I  ma}-  turn  the  page !" 

—Ex. 


"Dog  Bites  12  Girls!" 
(  Hard  to  suit ) . 


"Why  do  they  have  knots  on  the  ocean  in- 
stead of  miles?" 

"Well  you  see  they  couldn't  have  the  ocean 
tide  if  there  were  no  knots." 


Teacher :  "Why  were  you  late  to  class, 
Miss  Hubbard?" 

Miss  Hubbard :  "It  began  before  I  got 
here." 


Crowd  :     "Will  you  go  skating,  Celeste  ?" 
Celeste :     "Yes,  just  wait  until  I  get  them 
on,  then  I'll  go  with  you — all." 


D.   Sprague :     "When  I  get  to  New  York, 
how  do  I  get  to  the  hotel  ?" 
J.  James:     "Which  hotel?" 
D.  Sprague:     "Oh,  are  there  two?" 


"Why  is  the  Statute  of  Liberty's  arm  only 
eleven  inches  ?" 

"Because,  if  it  were  twelve  it  would  be  a 
foot." 


E.  Staats  to  teacher  of  cooking:  "Oh,  just 
see  the  wonderful  icicle  I  found !  May  I 
leave  it  in  the  sink  until  recitation  is  over?" 


Doctor :  "Madam  I  shall  have  to  paint  your 
husband's  throat  with  nitrate  of  silver." 

Profiteer's  wife:  "Please  use  nitrate  of 
gold,  doctor.    The  expense  is  immaterial." 


R.  Kent  (waxing  eloquent):  "The  mystic 
hour  of  midnight  came  at  last  and  it  dawned 
clear  and  radiant." 


WORDS  WE  LOVE  TO  HEAR 

"Special  for  you !" 

"Hello,  there !  Here's  the  five  dollars  I 
borrowed." 

"No  assignment  for  to-morrow.  Class  ex- 
cused." 

"Please  call  for  package  !" 


E.  Roberts :  "Will  vou  let  me  take  your  fur 
coat?" 

M.  Rhoades :  "Yes,  but  why  the  formal- 
ity ?" 

E.  Roberts:     "I  can't  find  it." 


Editor :     "What   will  you  eive  us   for  this 


joke  i 


Reader :     "A  ten-yard  head  start." 


D.  Rogers :     "Did  you  hear  about  the  Ele- 
vator dance?" 
K.   Rice:     "No." 
D.  Rogers:    "It  is  so  easy.     No  steps  in  it." 


AS  WE  SEE  OTHERS 


The  Review,  Newton,  Mass. :  We  find  that 
a  table  of  contents  in  a  paper  is  a  convenience. 

The  Echo,  Hazelton,  Pa. :  There  are  a  num- 
ber of  good  stories  in  your  October  issue. 

Garnet  and  Gray  Review,  Swathmore,  Pa.: 
One  of  our  neatest  exchanges. 

The  Roman,  Rome,  Ga. :  A  good  selection 
of  jokes  in  your  Thanksgiving  number. 

The  Lotus,  Dover,  Delaware  :  You  have  too 
many  advertisements  and  no  cuts  or  snaps. 

The  Owl,  Hoozac,  N.  Y. :  You  could  en- 
large your  editorial  department  to  advantage. 


Nearly  half  of  the  school  papers  we  have 
received  this  year  have  no  exchange  column. 
We  wonder  why  ?  Is  this  column  of  no  value 
to  your  papers?  Our  paper  is  so  eager  to  im- 
prove that  all  suggestions  are  more  than  wel- 
come. We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  fol- 
lowing exchanges  and  wish  you  all  a  very 
prosperous  and  Happy  New  Year ! 

Aegis,  Beverly  High,  Beverly,  Mass. ;  Alpha, 
New    Bedford    High    School,    New    Bedford; 


Black  and  Gold,  Winston-Salem  High  School, 
N.  C. ;  Burtonian,  Burr  and  Burton  Seminary, 
Manchester,  Vermont ;  Cue,  St.  Agnes,  Albany, 
New  York;  Dalbousic  Gazette,  Halifax,  Nova 
Scotia ;  Dial,  Brattleboro  High  School,  Brattle- 
boro,  Vermont ;  Elturiau,  Haverhill  High 
School,  Haverhill,  Mass. ;  Echoes,  Holy  Angels 
High  School,  Fort  Lee,  N.  J. ;  Facets,  St. 
Anne's  School,  Charlottesville,  Va. ;  Gleam, 
Johnston  High  School,  St.  Paul,  Minn. ;  Her- 
■nionUc,  Mt.  Hermon  School,  Mt.  Hermon, 
Mass. ;  Iris,  Philadelphia  High  School  for 
Girls,  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  La  Bacjh  Chronicle, 
College  and  Normal  School,  Lucknow,  India ; 
Lawrence  Bulletin,  Lawrence  High  School, 
Lawrence,  Mass. ;  Maryland  Collegian,  Mary- 
land College,  Lutherville,  Md. ;  Mirror,  West 
Hoboken  High  School,  West  Hoboken,  N.  J. ; 
News,  East  Orange  High  School,  East  Orange, 
N.  J. ;  Oak  Hill  Topics,  Mrs.  Backus  School, 
St.  Paul ;  Orange  and  Blue,  Union  High 
School,  Weshawhen,  N.  J. ;  Polaris,  Crosby 
Tronton  High  School,  Crosby  ;  Phoenix,  Mont- 
pelier  Seminary,  Montpelier,  Vt. ;  Record, 
High  School,  Patchogue,  N.  Y. ;  Recorder, 
Central  High,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ;  Sassamon, 
Natick  High  School,  Natick,  Mass. 


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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

THE  LASELL  CLUB  NUMBER 

All  articles  or  -'bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor  - 

Lillian  M.  Packard 


NEW  ENGLAND  MID-WINTER 
LUNCHEON 


The  Lasell  Alumnae  Association  invites  the 
former  students  and  teachers  to  the  Annual 
Mid-Winter  Reunion  at  Lasell  Seminary  on 
Monday,  February,  the  ninth.  Reception, 
12.30;  Luncheon  1.30;  Luncheon  by  courtesy 
of  Dr.  Winslow,  incidental  expenses,  $1.00. 

If  you  are  within  reaching  distance  of 
Auburndale  you  are  hereby  invited  whether 
you  receive  a  formal  invitation  or  not  but  it 
will  be  appreciated  if  you  will  reply  to  Miss 
Packard  at  Lasell. 

Why  not  make  this  the  best  reunion  we 
have  ever  had,  and  the  largest  ? 

One  of  the  New  Jersey  girls  writes  to  us  to 
inquire  about  the  Lasell  Club  of  New  York. 
This  is  the  right  spirit,  do  your  part  in  mak- 
ing the  Club  of  your  vicinity  a  success. 


THE  CONNECTICUT  VALLEY  LASELL 
CLUB 


The  fourteenth  annual  reception  and 
luncheon  of  the  Connecticut  Valley  Lasell 
Club  was  held  on  Saturday,  October  25,  at 
the  Hertford  Club  with  forty  present.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  Mile.  LeRoyer  repre- 
sented Lasell  and  every  one  was  delighted  to 
see  them.  Dr.  Winslow  told  the  good  news  of 
Lasell's  success  and  Mile.  LeRoyer  gave  an 
intensely  interesting  talk  about  France  which 


she  had  visi'.ed  this  last  summer.    The  officers 
elected  for  the  following  are : 

President :     Miss  Sarah  Hammond 
Vice-president :     Mrs.  Dorothy  Dale  Smith 
Secretary-Treasurer :      Miss    Helen    Saunders 
Those  present  were : 

Helena  Radcliffe  Stillman 

Dorothy  Dale  Smith 

Helen  Tillinghast 

Bessie  Fuller  Perry,  '02 

Susan  Hallock  Couch 

Edna  Strickland  Alson,  '07 

Elizabeth  Robinson  Breed 

Esther  Roberts 

Edith  Abbott,  '19 

Bertha  L.  Welles 

Emma  White  Welles 

Alice  G.  White 

Clara  McLean  Rowley,  '02 

Fannie  MacKensie 

Bessie  L.  Brainard 

Maybelle  Hamlin 

Florence  Skinner 

Ruth  Walcott  Britton 

Bessie  L.  Comstock 

Laura  Comstock 

Leontine  Goodman,  '18 

Helen  Saunders 

Lois  Hammond 

Sarah  Hammond 

Jessie  Hayden  and  guest 

Emily  Bissell  Swindells,  '99 

Grace  H.  Stiles 

Helen  Merriam  Cornell 

Laura  Hale,  '16 

Eva  Robertson 

Sarah  Dyer  Darling 

Mav  Beardsley  Young 

Mabel  Case  Viot,  '94,  and  guest 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


THE   CHICAGO   LASELL   CLUB 


Thru  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Goodwillie,  the 
Lasell  Club  of  Chicago  gave  its  annual  lunch- 
eon November  first  at  the  Union  League  Club. 
Forty  members  responded  and  after  a  most 
delicous  luncheon  four  "old  girls"  spoke  of 
their  experiences  during  the  great  war. 

Mildred  Johnston,  whom  Mrs.  Patterson  in- 
troduced as  "Lasell's  Baby"  gave  a  splendid 
account  of  her  canteen  work  in  various  places 
in  France  and  Germany.  Frances  Bragdon 
followed  with  an  equally  interesting  outline 
of  her  life  behind  the  lines  in  hospital  huts. 
Mona  Ryan  Inman  dressed  in  her  ambulance 
driver's  uniform  inspired  the  girls  telling  them 
of  the  many  sad  and  happy  incidents  that  took 
place  daily  at  Brest  at  the  loading  of  the  great 
troop  ships.  Helen  Mayer  Oppenheimer 
spoke  briefly  of  the  work  of  our  local  canteen 
workers  down  on  the  Lake  FronJ:. 

At  the  business  meeting  which  followed  it 
was  decided  to  raise  the  yearly  dues  from  SO 
cents  to  one  dollar.  It  was  also  decided  to 
have  the  fall  luncheon  as  usual  with  a  good 
speaker  and  to  make  the  spring  meetiing  as 
informal  as  possible — perhaps  in  the  shape  of 
a  card  party  or  a  musical  where  the  girls 
could  become  more  familiar  with  the  new 
faces  and  more  intimate  with  the  old. 

As'  there  was  no  more  business  to  transact, 
the  meeting  adjourned. 

Those  present  were : 
Mona  Ryan  Inman 
Ruth  Ketcham  Sturtevant  '13 
Mary  Theilens  Peeples 
Bess  Emerine  '15 
Bertha  Hax  Auld 
Dora  Goodwillie  '14 
Mrs.    Goodwillie 
In  a  Harber  '06 
Edith  Harber  Wright  '05 
Henrietta  McCullock 
Jessie  McCarthy  Hadley  '00 
Grace  Newland  Bowen 
Margaret  Gregson  Barker 
Edith  McClure  Patterson  '02 
Louise  Funkhouser  Williams  '09 
Lester  Hibb'ard  Saxton  '96 
Edna  Mai 

Mildred  Johnston  '06 
Mrs.  Johnston 
Helen  Mayer  Oppenheimer 


Annie  Wessell  Stransky 

Alma  Bunch  '13 

Marguerita  Dike  Hallberg  TO 

Edna  Mathias  Dinet  '13 

Loretta  Salmon 

Frances  Bragdon  '05 

Emily  Brookfield  Hardy 

Gertrude  Gleason  Shepard 

Sara  Hayden  Carlton  '95 

Flora  Gardner  '93 

Helen  Staples  Elsworth 

Ida  Jones  '05 

Florence  Jones  '12 

Margaret  Jones  '11 

Frieda  Mayer  '11 

Marguerite  Miller 

Ethel  Barker 

Helen  Guertin 

Julia  Hammond  McBride 

Rebecca  C  Shepherd  '94 

Gertrude  Buettner  '17 

Lavinia  Fera  '16 

Helen  Carter  Johnson  '07 

Margaret  Gregson  Barker, 

Secretary. 


A  delightful  letter  from  Dorothy  Stewart 
Allen  to  Miss  Potter  suggests  the  possibility 
of  a  Lasell  Club  in  and  about  Toledo  in  the 
near  future.  Suppose  the  Ohio  girls  who  live 
within  calling  distance  of  this  city  call  up 
Dorothy  and  tell  her  what  they  think  about 
it.     It  would  help. 


UNUSUAL    HAPPENINGS 


Who  would  have  expected  Frances  Coombs 
'19  to  be  one  of  the  schoolmistresses  of  this 
latest  class  but  so  it  is.  She  writes  from 
Erskine  Academy,  a  rural  school  outside  of 
Augusta,  of  her  experiences.  She  is  enthu- 
siastic over  her  present  opportunities  and  her 
new  point  of  view.  Now  she  talks  of  her 
"corridor  duties,"  her  walk  of  three  miles  to 
church  every  Sunday  with  her  boys  and  girls, 
her  classes  in  French,  History  and  English, 
her  discovery  of  the  small  amount  of  spend- 
ing money  which  some  students  have,  mak- 
ing some  phases  of  Lasell  life  seem  luxurious, 
and  best  of  all  of  her  "unselfish,  unspoiled, 
eager,  and  appreciative  youngsters." 

One  of  the  many  advantages  is  the  knowl- 
edge that  her  roommate,  Deborah  Ingraham, 


LASELL   LEAVES 


21 


is  only  eight  miles  away.  She  has  had  a 
visit  from  her  and  one  can  guess  one  of  the 
topics  of  conversation.  She  has  also  seen 
Miss  Chase,  our  field  secretary,  who  is  en- 
joying her  new  work,  the  teaching  of  music 
in  the  public  schools  of  Augusta. 


Word  has  come  to  us  through  an  uncle  that 
Gladys  Lawton  '11  of  Sheffield,  111.,  is  back 
East  after  spending  a  year  and  a  half  on  a 
government  claim  in  California.  We  want  to 
know  more  about  her  life  out  there. 

For  some  time  Laura  Hale  served  on  the 
Motor  Corps  in  Washington,  D.  C,  but  after 
the  armistice  worked  on  the  inside  work  of  the 
Foreign  Exchange.  The  details  of  her  work 
were  very  interesting.  At  least  one  Lasell 
girl  has  found  mathematics  of  practical  voca- 
tional value. 


The  active  girls  will  not  soon  forget  Miss 
Potter's  Christmas  chapel  service  when  she 
told  them  of  her  visit  with  Mae  Chisholm  on 
Christmas  morning  at  the  State  Prison  some 
years  ago.  This  dear  little  lady,  a  Lasell 'girl, 
now  Mae  Chisholm  Brown  has  been  "serving" 
ever  since,  some  years  in  China,  now  through 
unavoidable  circumstances  in  this  country.  A 
recent  letter  from  her  in  acknowledgment  of 
a  small  check  sent  by  the  Lasell  Missionary 
Society  will  give  a  suggestion  to  many  Lasell 
girls  who  have  little  mission  or  social  circles 
whom  they  can  influence. 


Corona,  Cal.,  R.  No.  1,  Box  22.  *  *  *  As 

you  will  see  we  have  moved,  this  time  to  share 
a  ranch  with  Mr.  B's  brother.  Our  home  is 
the  most  comfortable  one  I  have  had  since 
our  return  to  America  save  that  I  am  almost 
without  modern  conveniences.  I  am  very 
thankful  for  what  I  have  in  these  days  of  so 
much  uncertainty  and  distress. 

But  because  we  are  at  home  in  America  ( we 
should  feel  very  much  at  home  in  China) 
does  not  mean  we  are  not  in  the  work.  Be- 
cause we  cannot  be  in  the  work  in  person  we 
are  trying  to  support  a  substitute  work  in  the 
shape  of  a  dispensary — the  only  medical  work 


in  a  city  of  40,000  people.  Please  tell  the 
girls  that  I  shall  share  my  privilege  with  them 
thru  their  check.  How,  I  wonder,  would  they 
like  to  live  in  a  town  with  only  two  doctors 
( one  a  Chinese  lady  who  is  too  frail  to  do 
much)  and  one  nurse  and  no  hospital?  So 
I  am  sure  they  will  rejoice  in  their  share.  The 
work  is  in  the  city  where  the  Great  Wall  of 
China  ends  in  the  sea.  I  am  wondering  if 
some  time  the  girls  would  not  enjoy  sending 
a  package  of  handkerchiefs,  hair  ribbons,  and 
bath  cloths  to  that  work  ?  One  lot  of  girls 
had  a  social  and  charged  a  bath  cloth  and  a 
cake  of  soap  for  admission — also  a  postage 
stamp  or  two  cents  towards  the  postage  which 
is  twelve  cents  a  pound.  This  is  only  a  sug- 
gestion, not  an  appeal. 


A  Sweet- Faced  Senior  —  "Freckles 


CAP    AND    GOWN 


If  years  of  residence  entitles  one  to  Cap 
and  Gown  there  is  one  visitor  to  our  halls  who 
certainly  deserves  the  honors.  He  even  imi- 
tates his  fellow  graduates  by  his  class  yells  at 
unexpected  hours  of  the  day  and  night.  Do 
you  recognize  "Freckles"  or  his  double? 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


TO   THE    LASELL   ALUMNAE 
ASSOCIATION 


Some  time  ago  the  Lasell  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation appropriated  a  certain  amount  of  mon- 
ey to  be  sent  to  some  of  our  girls  overseas  to 
be  used  by  them  as  they  saw  fit.  This  is 
Frances  Bragdon's  letter  in  reply  to  the  draft 
sent  to  her: 

"I  have  read  somewhere  of  casting  bread 
upon  the  waters  and  finding  it  again  after 
many  days,  but  I  am  sure  that  those  of  you 
that  contributed  to  the  fund  of  twenty  dollars 
which  reached  me  last  spring  didn't  expect 
quite  so  many  days  to  elapse  before  you  heard 
who  ate  your  bread,  which  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
was  shoes.  They  were  worn  and  not  eaten 
by  little  French  children  at  Lens. 

"When  your  draft  reached  me  last  spring 
and  was  cashed  after  the  usual  lengthy  red 
tape,  our  hospital  was  on  the  verge  of  closing, 
and  as  it  remained  on  the  verge  for  several 
weeks  and  didn't  actually  close  until  the  end 
of  June,  there  seemed  no  opportunity  to  in- 
vest your  money  there.  We  were  already, 
from  other  funds,  serving  ice  cream  on  those 
desperately  hot  afternoons  to  the  bed-patients 
who  had  no  choice  but  to  lie  in  the  breathless 
wards  into  which  the  sun  just  streamed ;  and 
no  further  calls  came  in  to  buy  shoes,  eye- 
glasses, etc.,  for  special  cases  where  for  some 
reason  the  army  could  not  furnish  them,  and 
the  Red  Cross  had  to. 

So  I  took  the  money  with  me  when  I  went 
!o  Paris  to  headquarters  in  July.  I  met  an 
Evanston  friend  who  was  on  her  way  to  Lens 
(o  work,  under  the  Jardin  des  Enfants,  with 
the  children  in  that  entirely  devastated  city, 
into  which  the  former  inhabitants  were  pour- 
ing back  and  living  in  dugouts  and  cellars. 
Just  after  her  arrival  in  Lens  she  wrote  back 
that  the  absolute  lack  of  everything  was  ap- 
palling; that  people  had  no  warm  clothing 
at  all, — and  last  summer  was  very  damp  and 
cold  in  Northern  France, — and  that  many  lit- 
tle children  could  not  come  to  their  kinder- 
garten— it  was  really  a  sort  of  day  nursery, 
where  thev  cared  for  whole  families  of  chil- 


dren all  day  long  while  their  elders  excavated, 
cleaned  out  and  carted  away  the  debris  that 
had  been  their  home — because  they  had  noth- 
ing to  wear. 

"I  promptly  turned  over  your  fund  in  re- 
sponse to  this  irresistible  call  and  I  am  hoping 
it  was  the  sort  of  thing  the  contributors 
wanted  it  used  for.  This  friend  has  just  re- 
turned to  Evanston  and  given  me  the  report 
I've  been  waiting  for.  With  the  twenty  dol- 
lars she  bought  twenty-one  pairs  of  shoes  for 
children  from  four  to  eight  years  old,  not  very 
wonderful  shoes,  of  course  but  affairs  made 
of  some  leathern  substitute,  with  wooden  soles, 
which  at  least  enabled  the  youngsters  to  go 
to  the  little  school  without  cutting  and  bruis- 
ing their  feet  as  they  walked  through  the 
heaps  of  rubbish,  containing  bits  of  broken 
glass,  metal,  and  sharp  corners  of  plaster.  I 
know  how  much  Miss  McCarthy  appreciated 
the  gift  just  at  that  time,  I  know  how  glad  I 
was  to  find  a  place  where  it  was  so  sorely 
needed,  and  I  know  how  grateful  those  little 
children  and  their  parents  are  to  the  kind 
strangers  who  sent  help  in  this  long  drawn 
out  emergency. 

"Remember  me  to  all  my  Lasell  friends. 
Cordially, 

Frances  Bragdon." 


A    REAL    SACRIFICE 


From  a  letter  of  Florence  Harper: — 

*  *  *  I  let  the  money  from  the  L.  M.  S. 
go  toward  helping  one  of  our  boarding  stu- 
dents here.  She  is  a  very  nice  girl  and  I  am 
sure  if  the  girls  at  Lasell  knew  her,  they 
would  be  glad  that  the  money  was  used  in 
her  education.  She  is  sixteen  years  old  and 
graduates  from  the  Normal  school  next  year. 
I  am  keeping  study  tonight  and  my  attention 
is  somewhat  divided. 

School  is  almost  over.  Our  vacation  begins 
the  first  of  December  and  lasts  until  the  first 
of  January.  I  had  planned  to  go  home  for 
the  Christmas  holidays  but  traveling  is  so 
unsafe  in  this  country  and  passports  are  so 
uncertain  there  at  home  that  I  have  decided 


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to  stay  here.  I  love  it  here  and  I  wouldn't 
want  to  get  home  and  then  not  be  able  to  come 
back.  The  work  gets  more  interesting  every 
day. 

Political  conditions  are  still  very  bad.  A 
very  sad  thing  happened  here  a  month  or  so 
ago.  Five  of  our  best  boys  from  our  boys 
school  were  on  a  train  that  was  blown  up  and 
every  one  of  them  were  killed.  Blown  up 
trains  are  quite  common.  Please  thank  the 
girls  for  the  money.  We  appreciate  it  so 
much. 

Puebla,  Mexico. 
Apartado,  157. 


SAVED    SEVEN    LIVES 


Through  the  kindness  of  Gladys  Stults  a 
newspaper-clipping  came  to  Lasell  a  few 
weeks  ago  which  gave  us  a  real  thrill.  It  was 
an  article  written  in  praise  of  our  Helen 
Heath  '07.  It  would  have  been  glory  enough 
to  have  saved  one  life  from  drowning  but 
she  has  saved  seven,  four  at  one  time,  a  young 
man  and  three  girls  when  a  boat  was  sinking, 
and  about  three  weeks  later,  when  a  boat  was 
overturned,  a  party  of  three,  two  of  them  la- 
dies over  sixty-five  years  old.  This  was  re- 
ported in  a  Morristown  local  paper  and  hap- 
pened at  Green  Pond.  Helen  was  not  a  mem- 
ber of  either  party  but  saw  the  accidents  from 
a  distance  and  went  to  the  relief  of  those  in 
need. 

Thank  you,  Helen,  you  have  done  credit  to 
your  Alma  Mater  and  put  a  star  in  the  crown 
of  '07. 


A  PREACHMENT 


The  following  "preachment"  received  from 
Dr.  Bragdon  carries  us  back  to  the  old  chapel 
and  reminds  us  of  the  many  bits  of  advice 
given  us  from  the  old  chapel  desk. 

"Teach  your  lovers  and  husbands  and  sons 
to  defer  to  women,  not  because  the  women 
are  young  and  good-looking  or  because  they 
are  old  but  because  they  are  women ! 

"I    mourn    the    apparent    loss    of    old-time 


chivalry.  The  other  day  I  came  in  a  street- 
car in  which  eighteen  men  kept  their  seats  on 
a  ten-mile  ride  while  four  women  stood,  two 
with  bundles.  I  spoke  out,  "Isn't  it  a  shame 
there  are  no  gentlemen  in  this  car?"  Two  of 
the  sitters  glared  at  me  as  if  they  would  then 
and  there  knock  my  head  off.  I  looked  them 
in  the  eyes  daring  them  to  try  it.  They  looked 
out  of  the  windows.  Five  stirred  uneasily 
but  sat.  The  others  read  their  papers  or  con- 
tinued gazing  through  the  windows.  Not  one 
of  the  eighteen  gave  up  his  seat!  Five  thou- 
sand dollars  wouldn't  pay  me  for  having  a 
son  like  that. 

"Moreover  only  once  have  I  seen  a  woman 
give  her  seat  for  a  part  of  the  long  and  rough 
ride  (we  have  many  curves  in  that  ten  miles) 
to  another  woman.  If  you  want  us  to  share, 
why  don't  you?  I  have  seen  men  push  in 
ahead  in  boarding  a  car,  and  roughly — well- 
dressed  men,  too !  Where  were  the  mothers  of 
those  men  when  they  were  boys  and  teach- 
able? 

"The  Name  is  Chappell. 
'  'To  comfort  me  I  had  a  Christmas  letter 
from  that  prince  of  Christian  gentlemen.  Dr. 
Benjamen  Chappell  of  Tokyo,  Japan,  father 
of  our  dear  girls,  Mary,  Constance,  and  Jean. 
Of  them  he  writes:  "Mary  is  at  Hirosaki,  a 
day's  journey  north.  She  is  missionary  of  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  our 
church.  Bishop  Welch  and  Dr.  Goucher  have 
just  been  at  Hirosaki  and  bring  back  good 
word  of  one  of  your  girls  and  mine.  But  my ! 
it's  awfully  lonesome  up  there  ! 

"  'Constance  is  six  hours  from  Tokio  at 
Kofu.  She  is  a  missionary  of  Canadian 
Methodism.  Such  was  her  mother's  planning 
for  Mary  and  Constance.  Tho'  I  say  it  who 
shouldn't  (why  not  I  say)  she  is  making  good, 
what  in  your  country  they  call  100  per  cent 
efficient. 

"  'Jean  is  at  Victoria  College,  the  Methodist 
branch  of  Toronto  University,  has  been  there 
for  two  years  and  is  as  happy  as  the  day  is 
long.' 

"Aren't  we  proud  of  these  girls  ?     I  am. 

"The  McDonalds  are  scattered,   Marriott's 


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husband  had  to  buy  (none  to  rent)  a  house 
for  her  and  the  children  while  he  has  gone  to 
Mexico.  So  did  Josephine's  husband.  Mr. 
McDonald  is  in  Mexico,  Argenta  and  her 
husband  are  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  Mrs. 
McDonald  is  in  Idaho  with  the  two  Shep- 
herds. I  don't  recall  where  Annie  is.  All  are 
well  and  prosperous." 

C.  C.  B. 

Dr.  Bragdon  shares  with  us  also  a  part  of 
a  letter  from  our  former  teacher,  Adelle  Roth. 

".  .  .  as  I  always  do  I  am  turning  over  in 
my  subconscious  mind  some  possible  Lasell 
news  I  might  have  for  you.  Mrs.  A.  S.  Crow- 
der  I  saw  on  the  San  Francisco  boat,  she 
looked  well  and  happy,  her  daughter  had  a 
beautiful  wedding,  she  invited  me  very  cor- 
dially to  come  to  luncheon.  From  Mabel  Fal- 
ley  Devona  I  had  a  dear  letter,  she  was  pack- 
ing and  did  not  yet  know  her  next  address. 
From  Inez  Bragg  Johnson  I  had  a  most  beau- 
tiful letter  some  time  ago.  She  is  justly  proud 
of  her  daughter  who  must  be  what  the  mother 
was  when  she  was  at  Lasell.  You  know,  of 
course,  of  Mr.  Andreeson's  death.  Miss 
Pierce  of  Cloyne  Court  visited  one  of  your 
Lammies  as  you  called  them,  (Mrs.  Place 
from  Bozeman,  Montana,)  at  Minnetonka 
Beach  and  brought  back  her  love  and  assur- 
ances of  loyalty  to  Lasell.  Do  you  remember 
Dr.  Hoyt,  who  in  due  time  became  Mrs.  G.  W. 
Stevens  in  Concord,  N.  H.?  She  lost  her  hus- 
band, the  last  and  good  long  letter  I  had  from 
her  was  from  New  York  where  she  was  at- 
tending a  Physician's  meeting." 


1906 

A  clipping  sent  to  me  from  a  California  June 
newspaper  is  headed  "Girl  with  Million  Dollar 
Smile  Cheers  for  Yankees,  Home." 

Underneath,  looking  out  at  me  from  under 
the  stiff  brim  of  a  Red  Cross  Hat,  is  the 
sunny  face  of  Mildred  Johnston,  and  it  does 
justice  to  the  headlines. 

For  fourteen  months,  she  served  in  a  can- 
teen where  there  were  three  thousand  men  fed 
each  day.     It  was  her  intention  to  devote  her- 


self to  reconstruction  work  among  the  chil- 
dren in  France  but  there  seemed  greater  need 
for  her  in  the  Canteens  where  her  excellent 
knowledge  of  French,  Italian,  Spanish  and 
German  made  her  invaluable. 

The  article  speaks  of  our  little  "Sunshine,"' 

as  we  called  her  back  in  '03-4-5-6  as  " 

the  girl  whose  tender,  womanly  sympathy,  and 
eager,  able  helpfulness  brought  a  little  heaven 
down  on  earth  for  the  lads  who  passed  the 
Red  Cross  canteen  at  Dijon  on  their  way  to 
.the  Great  Adventure,  giving  fresh  courage  to 
thousands  who  came  again  to  Dijon,  battle- 
weary,  wounded,  and  dying." 

Sent  to  Germany,  later,  with  the  Army  of 
Occupation,  she  was  one  of  several  workers 
to  be  quartered  in  General  Von  Hindenburg's 
own  room.  Insisting  that  there  were  many 
delightful  phases  to  the  work,  aside  from  the 
joy  of  service,  Mildred  hints  at  dances  in 
Rhenish  castles  and  picnics  down  the  Rhine 
and  the  Moselle. 

Nothing,  however,  delights  us  any  more 
than  having  her  safely  at  home  again,  her 
great  task  honorably  finished. 

M.  S.  H.  '06. 


DR.    HORATIO  W.   PARKER 


Horatio  W.  Parker,  famous  musician  and 
composer,  and  dean  of  music  at  Yale  Univer- 
sity, died  of  pneumonia  on  December  18.  This 
announcement  from  the  daily  newspaper  is  of 
special  interest  to  the  early  graduates  of  Lasell 
for  he  was  the  son  of  Isabel  Jennings  Parker 
of  the  class  of  '57.  His  father  was  the  archi- 
tect of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Auburn- 
dale,  the  first  services  to  be  held  in  which  were 
the  Commencement  Exercises  of  the  Class  of 
'57.  His  mother  was  for  some  years  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Lasell  Alumnae  Association  and 
always  a  loyal  friend  of  the  school.  Mr.  Par- 
ker had  an  international  reputation  as  a  com- 
poser. In  1911  he  was  awarded  the  Metro- 
politan Opera  prize  of  $10,000  for  his  opera 
"Mona,"  and  in  1914  won  a  $10,000  prize  for 
the  best  American  opera.     In  1894  he  became 


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The  Reverend^inathan  Brown 
Is  far  the  best  Christian  in  town ; 

But  he  hates   (and  Isknow  it, 

And  wish  he  would  show  it) 
Every  man  who  says  "Reverend  Brown." 


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professor   of    music   at   Yale    University   and 
continued  in  that  position  until  his  death. 


There  is  no  death,  what  we  call  death 

But  gives  to  breath  its  higher  power. 

Daily  the  beauteous  moth 

And  the  Sun-loving  flower 

\\Tith  which  our  world  is  rife 

Give  of  their  gentle  life. 

A  shadow  on  the  face 

The  fluttering  of  a  wing  apace 

The  falling  of  a  leaf,  wind-blown 

And  heaven  and  earth  regain  their  own. 

Briefly  we  mourn  as  death 

This  fleeting  of  the  breath. 

The  giving  up  of  strife 

The  passing  on  of  life. 

/.  /.  M.  '82. 


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just  the  kind  Lasell  girls 
delight  in — smart,  luxuri- 
ous, becoming,  expressing 
superior  style  and  quality. 

(One  is  sketched  at  right.) 

So  also  in  dresses, 
blouses,  suits,  hats, 
furs,  etc.,  unusual 
styles  and  Values  are 
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CONTENTS 

COVER R.   Ordway 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

It  was  Washington's  Birthday       ■    •        •• R.  Harrington  5 

Two   Letters  C.  Tillinghast  7 

That  Room-Mate  of  Mine C.  Tillinghast  8 

EDITORIAL 10 

LOCALS 12 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 13 

SPORTS         ■    •    • .....  13 

PERSONALS 16 

JOKES 21 

EXCHANGES 23 


THE   FRENCH    PLAY 


IT    WAS    WASHINGTON'S    BIRTHDAY 


The  night  was  bitterly  cold,  and  the  wind 
blew  the  soft  snow  about  in  sheets.  The  bril- 
liantly lighted  house  which  I  approached 
was  indeed  a  welcome  sight,  for  my  journey 
through  the  snow  had  been  a  long  and  tedious 
one.  Strains  of  music  reached  my  ear  and 
grew  louder  as  I  drew  nearer  the  large  door. 
At  my  ring,  the  door  opened  and  I  was  shown 
through  mammoth  halls  to  a  room  where  I  left 
my  wraps.  As  I  descended  the  stairs,  gay 
voices  floated  up  to  me  and  the  orchestra, 
which  almost  drowned  them,  was  playing  a 
fox-trot.  A  brilliant  scene  met  my  eye  as  I 
entered  the  ball  room;  it  was  brightly  lighted 
and  the  light  was  reflected  in  the  smooth,  glass- 
like floor.  My  eye  travelled  from  one  figure 
to  another.  Never  have  I  seen  such  a  display 
of  coloring  and  such  unusual  and  effective 
costumes.  At  length  my  eyes  fell  on  a  beauti- 
ful young  girl  in  a  Martha  Washington  cos- 
tume. Her  powdered  hair  was  piled  high  upon 
her  shapely  head  and  ringlets  hung  softly 
about  her  ears.  Her  eyes  were  of  the  softest 
brown  imaginable  and  were  fringed  with  rather 
short,  curly  lashes.  As  she  smiled,  her  teeth 
showed  dazzlingly  white  between  her  well 
shaped  lips.  Her  nose,  in  direct  contrast  with 
the  docile  look  in  her  eyes,  tilted  rather  saucily 
at  the  end.     One  had  a  vague  idea  that  her 


eyes  could  sparkle  with  anger  and  that  the 
small  dimple  at  the  corner  of  her  mouth  could 
disappear  entirely.  Her  hands  were  ridicu- 
lously small,  but  well-shaped  and  quite  ring- 
less,  her  only  jewel  being  the  diamond  pin  that 
held  up  one  of  her  curls.  I  drew  my  gaze  from 
her  reluctantly  and  noted  a  few  of  the  other 
dancers,  people  of  different  ages,  ranging  from 
the  youngest  debutante  to  the  oldest  matron. 
None  of  these,  however,  appealed  to  me  as 
did  the  wearer  of  the  Martha  Washington 
costume ;  but  when  I  turned  to  find  her  again 
she  had  disappeared.  After  that  I  saw  her 
only  a  few  times  during  the  evening. 

As  it  grew  toward  midnight,  I  felt  a  slight 
drowsiness  creeping  over  me,  and  I  left  the 
merrymaking  scene  to  find  a  quiet  corner  and 
rest  for  a  few  minutes.  I  wandered  through 
several  of  the  well-lighted  rooms  and  at  last 
came  to  one  which  was  in  absolute  darkness 
and  in  which  the  shades  and  the  draperies 
were  drawn  so  that  no  ray  of  light  penetrated. 
I  made  my  way  to  a  large,  comfortable  chair 
and  sank  luxuriously  into  it.  I  had  not  been 
there  any  great  length  of  time  when  the  music 
seemed  to  change  from  modern  fox-trot  and 
one-step  to  that  of  a  minuet.  This  was  more 
to  my  liking  and  1  smiled  to  myself  quite  at 
peace  with  everything  and  everyone. 

A  few  minutes  later  the  peace  and  quiet  of 
the  room  were  abruptly  broken.     The  draper- 


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ies  were  drawn  /roughly  aside  and  a  tajll, 
middle-aged  man  entered.  He  was  not  hand- 
some— perhaps  not  even  good-looking — but 
there  was  something  about  him  that  would 
give  one  an  almost  uncontrollable  impulse  to 
turn  and  look  at  him  a  second  time.  His 
powdered  wig  was  well  set  off  by  the  tan, 
almost  swarthiness,  of  his  skin.  His  eyes 
were  rather  deep-set  and  just  at  this  moment 
were  full  of  thought  and  of  what  I  at  once 
knew  to  be  anger.  His  well-shaped  hands 
were  tightly  clasped  behind  him  and  the  ruf- 
fles which  fell  over  them  fluttered  gently  as 
he  paced  back  and  forth.  Hearing  the  sound 
of  light  foot-steps,  he  stopped  and  looked  in 
the  direction  of  the  door,  then  stalked  to  the 
window  and  remained  standing  with  his  back 
toward  the  room.  I  watched  the  door  expec- 
tantly with  a  feeling  of  premonition,  I  do 
not  know  why.  Presently  the  girl  who  had 
occupied  my  thoughts  all  the  evening  stood 
upon  the  threshold.  I  suppressed  the  gasp 
which  rose  to  my  lips  in  the  fear  that  I  might 
make  my  presence  known,  but  she  paid  no 
attention   to   me   whatever. 

"Father,"  she  said,  walking  over  to  the  man 
at  the  window,  "surely  you  cannot  mean  what 
you  have  just  said,  that  you  want  me  to  marry 
John.  Would  you  sacrifice  me  for  the  sake 
of  a  mere  money  matter?" 

Her  father  turned  to  her.  His  eyes  had 
lost  their  anger  and  now  held  something  else, 
sadness,  perhaps,  but  his  mouth  was  set  in  a 
determined  line. 

"Jeanette,"  he  said,  "it  is  quite  evident  that 
you  don't  realize  the  seriousness  of  our  situ- 
ation. It  is  not  a  mere  money  matter  as  you 
call  it.  Our  family  honor  is  at  stake.  Our 
only  possible  means,  of  escape  is  an  immediate 
marriage  between  you  and  John  Gaylord.  He 
is  a  man  whom  any  girl  might  be  proud  to 
marry  and  would  be  scorned  by  few.  But  that 
has  been  discussed  once  and  for  all.  I  only 
await  your  decision." 

The  girl  tossed  her  head,  defiance  in  her 
every  move,  but  it  was  evident  that  her  love 
and  respect  for  her  father  had  met  in  a  strug- 


gle with  some  other  emotion,  and  conquered 
and  slowly  her  hands  dropped  from  their  ap- 
pealing gesture  to  her  side,  and  her  head 
nodded  slowly  her  consent.  The  father  thanked 
her  gruffly  and  left  the  room  as  abruptly  as 
he  had  entered  it. 

Almost  immediately  another  man  entered, 
very  much  younger  than  the  first,  but  dressed 
in  the  same  fashion. 

"Ah,  at  last,  Jeanette,"  he  cried,  as  he 
caught  sight  of  the  girl.  "I  have  looked 
everywhere  for  you.  This  is  our  dance.  And 
tonight  is  the  time  we  had  set  to  announce 
our — "  His  voice  trailed  off  into  silence  as 
she  raised  her  hand,  and  he  took  a  step  for- 
ward as  a  look  of  pain  crossed  her  face. 

"No,"  she  said,  "that  is  all  over  and  done 
with.  I  am  to  marry  John  Gaylord.  I  can- 
not explain — I — it  is  the  will  of  someone  very 
dear  to  me ;  and,  great  as  my  love  for  you  is, 
this  person  and  his  claims  come  first,  so  I 
am  afraid  this  must  be  good-bye.  Try  to 
understand  and  don't  judge  me  too  hastily." 

Amazement  and  his  love  for  her  vied  with 
each  other  in  the  expression  on  his  face. 
"Jeanette,"  he  cried,  "you  can't  mean  this — 
there   must  be  some  mistake — you — " 

"Please,"  she  said  "don't  make  it  any  harder 
for  me  than  it  already  is.  I  have  reached  my 
decision.  Nothing  can  change  it — not  even 
my  admission  that  I  love  you.  That  is  all. 
Please  go." 

He  stood  before  her  a  minute,  took  her 
hand  and  raised  it  to  his  lips ;  then,  with 
bowed  head,  went  slowly  from  the  room.  The 
girl  stood  where  he  had  left  her,  then  made 
her  way  stumblingly  to  a  chair  where  she 
buried  her  face  and  shook  with  sobs.  I 
struggled  to  rise  and  comfort  her,  but  some- 
thing seemed  to  hold  me  back.  At  length  I 
pulled  myself  from  my  immobility  and  rose 
to  my  feet.  I  looked  about  me.  The  room 
was  empty  and  in  absolute  darkness.  Feeling 
rather  dazed,  I  made  my  way  back  to  the  ball- 
room where  the  last  waltz  was  being  played. 
I  looked  about  me  searching  for  the  girl  with 
the  brown  eyes  and  saucy  nose  and  at  length  I 


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descried  her  in  an  animated  conversation  with 
a  young,  rather  striking  looking,  man.  Two 
people  were  standing  in  front  of  me  and  evi- 
dently much  interested  in  this  couple  also, 
for  I  heard  one  of  them  say :  "Yes,  it  should 
make  a  fine  match.  They  seem  quite  devoted, 
and  I  should  not  be  in  the  least  surprised  to 
hear  an  announcement  of  their  engagement." 

I  began  to  breathe  freely  once  more.  Whaf 
had  transpired  in  that  room  a  few  minutes 
ago  had  been  nothing  more  than  a  dream,  and 
this  girl  whom  I  could  not  help  admiring  even 
at  the  very  first  sight  was  to  be  happily  mar- 
ried after  all. 

Just  then  the  voices  of  friends  offering  to 
take  me  home  broke  in  upon  my  reveries,  and 
I  was  hurried  into  my  coat  and  out  into  the 
storm  once  more. 

R.  Harrington. 


TWO  LETTERS 


"To  do,  or  not  to  do?  To  send,  or  not  to 
send?"  In  Anna's  case  that  was  the  question. 
A  quotation  from  some  great  man  or  other 
kept  repeating  itself  in  the  girl's  mind — "Once 
to  every  man  and  nation  comes  the  moment  to 
decide." 

"But  that  doesn't  help  me  any,"  she  said 
aloud  to  her  reflection  in  the  mirror ;  and,  see- 
ing that  the  girl  in  the  glass  was  in  a  mood 
for  argument,  she  continued,  "You  simply 
must  decide,  you  know,  Anna  Bruce ;  and  the 
longer  you  put  it  off,  the  harder  it's  going  to 
be.  Why  on  earth  should  you  be  ashamed  of 
loving  somebody  in  a  perfectly  fine,  womanly 
way?" 

"Ah,  but  Anna,"  the  girl  in  the  mirror 
seemed  to  say  to  her,  "you're  not  sure  Dud 
loves  you." 

"I'm  pretty  sure." 

"Oh — pretty — yes,"  shrugged  the  mirror 
girl,  "but  not  absolutely." 

"Well,  but  he  must  love  me — some,"  Anna 
confided  to  her  stubborn  little  image,  "or  he 
would  not  have  made  such  frantic  efforts  to 
see  me  at  the  last ;  neither  would  he  have  writ- 


ten that  sweet  little  note  saying  he'd  tried 
so  hard  to  see  me,  that  he  wanted  to  tell  me 
something  very  special  and  important,  would 
he  now  ?" 

The  girl  in  the  mirror  was  forced  to  take 
the  challenge  with  a  little  negative  shake  of 
the  head,  and  admitted  rather  reluctantly, 
"Well,  no,.  I  guess  maybe  he  wouldn't  have 
done  that  if  he  hadn't  cared  some." 

"Then  what's  to  hinder  my  sending  my  nice 
letter?  I'm  just  going  to.  I'll  read  it  over 
again  to  be  quite  sure  it  isn't  too  plain — and — " 
she  left  the  sentence  unfinished  as  she  rose  to 
her  feet  and  started  for  the  letter. 

Returning  to  the  room  with  the  dainty  mis- 
sive in  her  hand,  Anna  seated  herself  once 
more  before  her  dressing  table  and  read  it 
through  quietly  to  herself.  "It  sounds  all 
right,  and  I'm  going  to  send  it,"  she  said  as 
she  sealed  the  envelope  already  addressed  in 
her  plain,  pretty  writing.  Turning  her  head 
slightly,  she  looked  out  of  the  window  at  the 
autumn  sky.  The  big  white  clouds  there 
seemed  drifting  down  towards  her  as  if  to 
embrace  her  and  lift  her  up  among  them- 
selves. A  faraway  look  came  into  her  lovely 
eyes,  as  she  sat  wondering  what  that  special 
and  important  thing  was,  that  Dud  had  to  tell 
her — if  it  wasn't  that — here  the  dreamy  look 
gave  place  to  one  of  rapt  joy  and  pure,  radi- 
ant happiness.  Yes,  surely  he  loved  her. 
Surely  she  loved  him,  and  she  was  not 
ashamed  of  it.  He  should  know  it.  A  few 
minutes  later  she  ran  down  the  steps,  across 
the  leaf-strewn  lawn ;  a  lift  of  the  hand,  a 
click  of  the  mail  box — and  the  letter  was  on 
its   way. 

Dudley  McAllister,  Jr.,  whistled  "Love  me 
and  the  world  is  mine"  as  he  tied  his  tie  before 
his  reflection  in  his  mirror.  The  clear  blue 
eyes  of  the  man  in  the  glass  looked  out  into 
his  own  with  happy  thoughts  concealed  in 
their  depths. 

"Yes,  by  Jove,  old  boy,"  the  mirror  man's 
eyes  seemed  to  say  to  Dud,  "you've  gone  and 
done  it.  I  didn't  think  you'd  have  the  courage. 
But  you're  right.     'Faint  heart  ne'er  won  fair 


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lady.'  Shame  you  had  to  write  it,  though,  in- 
stead of  asking  her  personally.  Oh,  well, 
never  mind.  That  couldn't  be  helped.  You'll 
get  to  her  with  the  ring  immediately  you  have 
her  reply." 

Cheerfully  Dud  whistled  out  into  the 
autumn  sunshine,  and  wind,  and  shadow.  In 
his  eyes  shone  happiness  and  a  great  hope  and 
in  his  brisk  step  was  registered  impatience  for 
the  incoming  mail. 

The  autumn  sky  was  crimson  and  bronze 
and  gold  with  the  glory  of  the  setting  sun. 
Anna  walked  leisurely  along  the  shore  watch- 
ing the  breakers  roll  in  from  the  sea  and  tum- 
ble over  one -another  with  wild  crashes  and 
roars,  then  lisp  quietly  up  the  white  sand  al- 
most to  her  feet.  She  watched,  too,  the  great 
red  sun  dipping  lower,  ever  closer  into  the 
heart  of  the  great  ocean.  The  same  wind 
which  dashed  the  breakers  on  the  shore  played 
with  Anna's  soft  dark  hair,  blowing  it  all 
about  her  face.  Running  up  the  beach  to  her 
came  her  little  sister  Marie,  a  large  square 
white  envelope  in  her  hand.  "Here's  a  letter 
for  you,  Anna,"  she  called,  "catch  it,"  as  un- 
thinkingly she  tossed  it  into  the  air. 

Anna  jumped  up,  stretching  her  arms  (high 
to  catch  the  precious  message.  Her  fingers 
touched  it  lightly,  but  before  they  could  grasp 
it  firmly,  the  wind  snatched  it,  twirled  it  a 
moment  in  fiendish  glee  just  above  her  head, 
then  sent  it  sailing  out  beyond  the  breakers. 

The  powerful  bulk  of  engine  No.  556,  with 
its  attached  express  and  mail  train,  sped  over 
the  rails,  bearing  in  a  certain  mail  bag  a  let- 
ter which  might  have  made  Dudley  McAllis- 
ter a  very  happy  young  man,  had  it  not  been 
destined  to  meet  with  a  different  fate.  It  all 
happened  so  quickly — just  a  little  misplaced 
bolt  on  the  track  so  that  the  express  was  fly- 
ing over  a  concrete  bridge  spanning  a  great 
river — and  engine,  train  and  all  went  down 
into  the  madly  rushing  current  which  bore 
the  mail  bag  with  its  precious  message  on 
down  to  the  great  sea.  So  the  letters  met  out 
in  the  waters  of  the  deep,  and  were  eventually 
swept  up  on  the  sand  together  by  a  giant  wave. 

What  secrets  the  great  ocean  holds   in  its 


depths !  Anna  often  wondered  in  later  years, 
as  she  walked  alone  on  its  shores,  if  her  letter 
had  ever  reached  her  lover,  and  why  she  never 
had  a  reply.  And  in  answering  the  oft  put 
question  why  he  had  never  married,  Dudley 
always  replied,  "No  one  would  have  me." 

One  dark  night  the  Spirit  of  the  Ocean  saw 
dim  figures  pass  along  her  shores.,  a  man  with 
bent  figure  and  bowed  head,  a  woman  with  sad 
eyes  and  dark  hair  blowing  in  the  wind.  The 
figures  passed  in  the  dark  unknowing,  each 
with  a  weary,  heavy  heart,  and  each  in  lone- 
liness seeking  to  fathom  the  secrets  of  the 
greater  sea  of  life. 

C.   Tillinghast. 


THAT  ROOM-MATE  OF  MINE 


"Has  anybody  seen  my  black  tie  ?  I  can't 
find  it  anywhere."  I  raised  my  voice  in  com- 
plaint till  the  not  any  too  substantial  walls 
fairly  shook  as  my  wail  echoed  and  reechoed 
through  the  house.  All  the  while  I  continued 
the  search  for  the  missing  portion  of  my  ap- 
parel, hurling  the  contents  of  my  bureau 
drawers  in  every  direction.  The  tie  was  not 
to  be  found.  I  sighed  heavily  and  muttered 
a  word  under  my  breath.  With  the  word  came 
a  brilliant  inspiration — the  thought  of  a  scar- 
let tie  belonging  to  that  room-mate  of  mine. 
It  would  serve  my  purpose  just, as  well  if  not 
better  than  the  black  one.  I  proceeded  to 
empty  the  contents  of  my  room-mate's  bureau 
drawers,  paying  no  attention  to  where  they  saw 
fit  to  land.  Of  course,  the  desired  red  tie  was 
in  the  very  last  drawer  (the  one,  by  the  way, 
that  never  would  open)  at  the  very  bottom, 
tucked  away  neatly  in  the  most  out  of  the  way 
corner. 

As  I  snatched  at  it  triumphantly  a  voice  at 
the  door  said,  "I  shouldn't  think  you  could 
find  anything  in  this  room." 

I  was  in  too  much  of  a  hurry  to  notice  the 
owner  of  the  voice  as  I  stumbled  over  a  few 
pairs  of  shoes,  a  hair  brush  and  several  other 
obtrusive  objects  which  blocked  the  path  to 
the  door.    I  rushed  past  whoever  it  was  stand- 


LASELL   LEAVES 


ing  there,  surveying  the  wreckage,  arid  called 
over  my  shoulder  as  I  went — 

"Pick  it  up  when  I  come  back — no  time 
now." 

Half  a  second  later  I  was  racing  up  the  stairs 
two  steps  at  a  time  when  I  nearly  collided  with 
my  dearest  chum. 

"Oh,  Betty,  dear,"  she  said  sweetly,  "I  bor- 
rowed your  black  tie  this  morning.  Do  you 
mind?" 

"Not  at  all,  my  dear,"  I  responded  in  what 
I  hope  was  an  equally  sweet  voice,  while  I 
thought,  "Oh,  that  room-mate  of  mine." 

When  I  came  back  from  class  later,  a  little 
more  calm,  there  was  a  group  of  girls  gazing 
into  our  room.  As  I  approached  one  of  them 
exclaimed  in  a  horrified  voice,  "I  never  saw 
such  a  looking  place  in  my  life.  Isn't  that 
awful,  why — " 

She  looked  up  squarely  into  my  eyes  as 
though  demanding  an  explanation. 

"Yes,  it — it  does  look  pretty  badly,"  I  was 
forced  to  say.  "You  see  I — that  is — we — 
oh."  This  was  the  limit.  I  must  say  some- 
thing, but  what?  "That  room-mate  of  mine!" 
I  exclaimed  with  vehemence. 

Then  the  mail  came  and  when  I  had  finished 
reading  mine  and  joking  my  room-mate,  it 
was  lunch  time.     I  am  never  late  to  lunch. 

As  I  passed  out  of  my  last  class  that  after- 
noon, I  was  troubled  with  unpleasant  thoughts 
concerning  a  certain  room,  be-cluttered  and 
disorderly,  which  fairly  cried  out  to  be  made 
neat  and  tidy  once  more.  When  I  reached  the 
room  some  time  later  (you  may  be  sure  I  was 
in  no  hurry)  the  door  was  closed.  I  took 
hold  of  the  door  knob,  searching  my  brain 
wildly  for  some  excuse  to  offer  that  room- 
mate of  mine,  who,  I  felt  sure,  must  be  wait- 
ing inside  to  practise  some  of  her  oratorical 
ability  on  me.  Slowly — nay,  almost  painfully 
— I  opened  the  door  and  drew  back  aghast. 
What  a  sight  confronted  my  startled  vision! 
How  different  from  the  one  I  had  left  that 
noon  !  And — can  it  be  conceived  ? — my  part, 
my  side  of  our  room  was  as  spick  and  span 
as  the  other  side.  My  clothes  were  hung  in 
order.    My  shoes  in  a  neat,  precise  row  under 


my  bed  fairly  beamed  up  at  me  from  the 
edge  of  the  counterpane.  Almost  reverently 
I  stepped  into  the  now  unfamiliar  room  and 
with  quite  a  different  intonation  I  breathed  in 
awe  the  words,  "That  room-mate  of  mine." 

Upon  coming  back  just  before  dinner  from 
a  little  excursion  downtown  with  some  of  the 
girls,  I  opened  the  door  and  there  stood  that 
room-mate  of  mine. 

"You'll  have  to  hurry,"  she  said,  "or  you'll 
be  late.  You  have  just  five  minutes  to  dress 
— I've  laid  out  your  things.  You  can  wear 
that  white  dress  of  mine.  You  know  yours 
has  a  great  big  spot  right  on  the  front  of  the 
waist."  And  she  was  gone  like  the  good  fairy 
in  my  favorite  fairy  tale. 

After  dinner  I  went  to  the  library  to  study. 
When  I  came  back  I  found  on  our  table  some 
delicious  eats  and  this  little  note.  The  note 
read : 

"Am  out  for  the  night.  Brought  you  a  lit- 
tle taste  of  our  feed  and  hope  you  will  like  it. 
Also  hope  you  sleep  well. 

"Very  sincerely  your  room-mate, 

"Hap  Hazard." 

If  that  wasn't  just  like  that  room-mate  of 
mine !  After  I  had  disposed  of  my  refresh- 
ments and  done  my  hair  up  in  curl  papers,  I 
rolled  into  bed.  I  popped  out  again  quicker 
than  I  had  rolled  in,  and  proceeded  to  extract 
from  between  my  sheets  several  handfuls  of 
tea  leaves,  a  few  apple  cores,  a  few  dozen 
broom  straws,  a  couple  of  coat  hangers,  an 
over  shoe  a  tennis  racquet  and  several  other 
articles  of  general  use. 

Once  more  in  bed,  I  was  about  to  depart 
for  the  land  of  dreams,  when  a  terrible  ring- 
ing noise  filled  the  air,  thus  rudely  delaying 
my  departure.  This  wild,  ferocious  ringing 
continued  at  intervals  and  would  have  con- 
tinued to  continue  had  I  not  once  again  va- 
cated my  comfortable,  warm  bed  to  turn  off 
my  alarm  clock. 

Is  it  any  wonder  that  my  last  thought  before 
I  dropped  off  to  sleep  was,  "That  room-mate 
of  mine"? 

C.  Tillinghast. 


A  big  problem  of  school  life  is  the  securing 
of  the  correct  inter-relation  of  school  activi- 
ties and  studies.  Every  year  there  are  stu- 
dents who  receive  low  grades  because  the 
sporting  instinct  is  stronger  than  the  desire  for 
book  knowledge ;  there  are  also  some  who  re- 
ceive high  grades  at  the  sacrifice  of  their 
health.  Both  of  these  types  of  students  have 
the  wrong  idea ;  they  are  extremists  who  do 
not  have  the  proper  conception  of  education. 
Education  is  not  the  specialized  training  of 
the  brain  alone,  nor  is  it  the  development  of 
the  physique  alone.  It  is  well  to  remember 
that  the  class  room  has  its  important  place 
but  when  classes  are  through  for  the  day,  a 
school  activity  which  will  increase  physical 
efficiency  should  be  given  due  attention.  Try 
to  be  all-around  members  of  our  school  body 
— physically,  mentally  and  morally. 


THE   JUNIOR    CLASS    OFFICERS 

To  have  class  spirit  is  one  of  the  greatest 
lessons  a  girl  can  learn  while  she  is  at  school. 
Here  at  Lasell  every  girl  must  have  already 
learned  what  class  spirit  is,  for  there  has 
never  before  been  more  harmony  and  good 
feeling  in  the  classes.  The  members  of  the 
junior  Class,  which  numbers  nearly  one  hun- 
dred,  have   thus   far  worked   for  the  better- 


ment of  the  class,  all  helping,  none  hindering. 
Because  the  members  of  the  different  classes 
are  so  scattered  through  the  various  houses, 
some,  thought  the  class  spirit  would  not  be  as 


great  as  heretofore. 


Still  each  girl  has  done 


her  part.  At  first  people  thought  the  Wood- 
land Park  girls  would  not  have  the  class  spirit 
that  the  girls  from  Main  have,  for  they  are  not 
as  conveniently  near  and  so  cannot  "get  in" 
on  everything.  Now  those  very  people  have 
changed  their  minds  because  the  Woodland 
Park  girls  have  become  strong  class  supporters. 
Although  it  is  very  easy  to  skip  a  class  meeting 
to  go  down  to  the  village,  still  the  girls  have 
all  been  faithful  about  reporting  quickly  and 
promptly  at  the  meetings. 

Class  spirit  is  one  of  the  smaller  evidences 
of  loyalty.  If  we  are  loyal  in  this,  we  shall 
be  loyal  to  the  school  and.  eventually  in  the 
larger  issues  of  life. 


Scuioritis  is  not  an  epidemic  or  a  plague, 
but  it  is  the  last  stage  at  which  the  advanced 
students  arrive  before  starting  out  on  their 
long-dreamed-of  careers.  The  one  word 
senior  implies  a  great  deal  and  sometimes  cov- 
ers a  multitude  of  sins.  Some  of  these  fa- 
vored beings  claim  that  it  gives  them  the  right 
of  cutting  classes  and  forging  excuses,  while 
to  others  it  signifies  one  who  is  kind  to  dumb 
animals  and  tries  to  put  "pep"  into  her  class. 
Even  a  Freshman  may  attain  that  height. 
For  all  this,  Scuioritis  is  a  good  stage  to  be  in. 
Why  not  become  a  victim? 


LASELL    LEAVES 


11 


Now  that  Christmas  vacation  is  over  we 
are  all  looking  forward  with  great  pleasure  to 
the  next  important  event — the  White  Moun- 
tain trip.  Most  of  you  new  girls  have  prob- 
ably heard  from  the  old  that  we  start  on 
Friday,  the  thirteenth,  and  go  to  the  Bellevue 
Hotel  at  Intervale  where  we  stay  until  Mon- 
day. Any  girl  who  does  not  live  where  she 
can  use  toboggans,  snowshoes,  skiis  or  snow 
bicycles  should  surely  take  advantage  of  this 
chance  if  she  is  able  to  do  so.  Most  of  the 
girls  during  their  gym  periods  have  been 
coasting  and  they  think  it  is  delightful ;  but 
can  anyone  imagine  anything  more  delightful 
than  moonlight  tobogganing  down  an  icy  hill, 
and  a  dash  into  a  heap  of  soft  snow?  And 
just  imagine  a  hot  dinner  of  bacon  sand- 
wiches, coffee,  biscuits,  doughnuts,  cheese  and 
apples  eaten  around  a  huge  wood  fire  out  in 
the  open,  after  a  two  hours'  climb  up  into 
Cathedral  Woods?  Don't  these  things  sound 
tempting,  and  aren't  you  sure  now  that  you 
want  to  e;o  ? 


A    FRIEND'S    GREETING 


■"I'd  like  to  be  the  sort  of  friend  that  you  have  been 

to   me ; 
I'd    like    to    be   the   help    that   you've   been    always 

glad  to  be ; 
I'd   like   to   mean   as   much   to  you   each   minute   of 

the  day 
As  you  have  meant,  old  friend  of  mine,  to  me  along 

the  way. 

I'd  like  to  do  the  big  things  and  the  splendid  things 

for  you, 
To   brush  the  gray   from   out  your   skies   and   leave 

them  only  blue ; 
I'd  like  to  say  the  kindly  things  that  I  so  oft  have 

heard. 
And  feel  that  I  could  rouse  your  soul  the  way  that 

mine   you've   stirred. 

I'd   like   to   give   you   back   the   joy   that   you   have 

given   me, 
Yet  that  were  wishing  you  a  need  I  hope  will  never 

be; 
I'd  like  to  make  you   feel  as  rich  as   I,  who  travel 

on 
Undaunted   in   the   darkest   hours   with   you   to   lean 

upon. 


I'm  wishing  at  this  Christmas  time  that  I  could  but 

repay 
A  portion  of  the  gladness  that  you've  strewn  along 

the  way ; 
And    could    I    have    one    wish    this    year,    this    only 

would  it  be : 
I'd  like  to  be  the  sort  of  friend  that  you  have  been 

to   me." 

Edgar  A.   Guest. 


THE   SUNSHINE   SOCIETY 


We  smile  to  the  happy ;  we  smile  to  the  sad ; 
We  smile  to  the  good,  and  we  smile  to  the  bad, 
We   smile   when   the   sun   shines,   we   smile   when   it 

rains 
We   smile   and   we   smile   till   we   smile   away   pains. 
Our  mission  in  life  is  to  bring  cheer  to  all, 
To  drive  away  sadness,   and  joy  to  install, 
To  give  aid  to  the  weary,  the  sick  and  the  lone, 
And  by  brightening  their  lives,  to  bring  joy  to  our 

own. 
As    Sunshiners   loyal,   unselfish  and  true. 
We  have  promised  to  comfort,  to  aid  and  befriend ; 
And  we've  found  it's   ourselves  who  are  blessed  in 

the  end. 


AFTER 
JUNIOR  LEAVES  STAFF 


On  December  4  the  Juniors  succeeded  in 
obtaining  some  Senior  property ;  namely,  a  cap 
and  two  gowns,  much  to  the  evident  disgust 
of  the  upperclassmen.  A  search  was  made  by 
the  Seniors  the  following  evening  during  din- 
ner, the  news  of  which  brought  about  a  gen- 
eral exodus  of  all  Juniors  in  the  dining  room. 
But,  sad  as  it  is  to  tell,  all  the  Seniors'  efforts 
were  unavailing  and  the  gowns  remained  in 
the  keeping  of  the  Juniors.  This  occasioned 
several  telegrams  by  Seniors. 

At  six  on  the  morning  of  December  6  the 
Juniors'  big  day  commenced.  The  Class  of 
'21  held  a  meeting  in  the  basement  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  that  time.  The  Se- 
niors proved  curious  and  searched  industri- 
ously, but  to  no  advantage.  In  chapel  that 
morning  there  was  a  tense  feeling  which  was 
rapidly  broken  when  some  Juniors  appeared, 
carrying  something  on  a  pillow.  '21  returned 
the  caps  and  gowns  and  their  joy  seemed  com- 
plete, but  the  Seniors  gave  them  back  to  the 
class  of  '21.  Their  joy,  however,  was  more 
than  complete  when  a  few  days  later  some  of 
the  Seniors  came  down  to  Berkeley  and  asked 
for  the  caps  and  gowns  which  they  had  pre- 
sented to  the  Juniors. 

School  opened  January  7  after  nearly  three 
weeks  of  vacation.     All  came  back  very  en- 


thusiastic over  the  good  times  they  had  had 
at  home  and  not  a  little  bit  tired.  Some  of 
the  California  girls  entertained  us  with  tales 
of  their  first  Christmas  spent  in  the  snowy 
East. 

Christian  Endeavor  meeting  on  January  9 
was  held  in  Gardner.  It  was  led  by  Miss  Rora- 
back,  who  told  us  about  her  Testament.  The 
girls  were  very  much  interested  and  wished 
to  own  one  like  it. 

Mr.  Frank  Speare  of  Northeastern  College 
spoke  at  the  vesper  service  on  January  11  on 
the  value  of  the  present  day  dollar.  His  talk 
was  well  worth  hearing,  for  he  gave  us  a 
very  clear  idea  of  the  present  purchasing  value 
of  money  and  of  our  obligation  to  use  it 
rightly. 

The  Juniors  having  challenged  the  Seniors 
to  a  basket  ball  game,  the  challenge  was  ac- 
cepted for  Friday,  January  16.  At  4  o'clock 
the  teams  were  on  the  floor  ready  to  begin 
play.  Both  played  wonderfully  well  so  that 
the  game  was  a  hard  struggle  from  start  to 
finish.  The  classes  had  cheering  sections 
which  served  to  enliven  things  after  a  good 
play.  It  was  a  very  "fast"  game  and  both 
sides  worked  hard.  The  luck  was  with  the 
Seniors  as  they  won  17-8.  Well  done;  let's 
have  another  game ! 


LASELL    LEAVES 


13 


SPORTS 


Upon  our  return  after  Christmas,  we  found 
that  Winter  had  really  come.  We  have  en- 
joyed some  very  cold,  but  wonderful,  weather. 
During  the  first  few  days  the  conditions  were 
ideal  for  skating,  and  many  of  us  spent  the 
afternoons  upon  the  Charles  River.  Even 
those  who  did  not  know  how  to  skate  went 
over  and  decided  to  learn. 

Because  of  the  heavy  snow  fall  last  week, 
we  have  all  spent  our  time  out-of-doors  coast- 
ing. Miss  Woodward  decided  that  the  gym 
periods  should  be  given  over  to  this  so  that 
we  should  all  be  outside  every  day  for  at 
least  an  hour.  It  has  proved  a  delightful 
sport,  as  even  the  inexperienced  could  enjoy 
it.  A  few  of  the  girls  tried  skiis  and  snow 
shoes,  all  of  which  made  it  evident  that  every- 
one was  preparing  for  the  trip  to  the  White 
Mountains. 


A   SLEIGHING   PARTV 

The  swimming  pool  has  become  none  the 
less  popular  since  the  coming  of  outdoor  sports 
in  the  snow.  We  hope  that  everyone  is  prac- 
ticing in  order  to  take  the  swiming  test,  pre- 
paratory to  crew,  the  greatest  athletic  event 
of  the  year. 

The  different  classes  have  organized  their 
basketball  teams  and  the  first  game  of  the  year 
was  held  on  Friday  afternoon,  January  16, 
between  the  Juniors  and  Seniors.  Many  girls 
were  out  to  cheer  both  sides.  The  Juniors 
played   well,   but  the  game  was   won  by  the 


Seniors  with  a  score  of 
as  follows : 

Seniors 
James    ....    Forward 
Griffin   ....    Forward 

Rice Center 

Crane    Center 

Patten   Guard 

Florence  ".  .  .  .    Guard 
Campbell    Sub. 


17-8.    The  line-up  was 

Juniors 
Rawlings  .  .  Forward 
Knight  ....  Forward 

Doane   Center 

Pape    Center 

Temple    Guard 

Story   Guard 

Lewis    Sub. 

Jackson    Sub. 


WOODLAND    PARK    NOTES 


Everyone  came  back  for  the  opening  of 
school  on  January  5,  all  except  Helen  Miller, 
who  is  still  detained  at  her  home  in  Springfield, 
Vermont.  We  hope  Helen  will  soon  be  able  to 
come  back  to  us. 

On  Saturday,  January  17,  Miss  Bunting 
took  a  party  in  to  the  Children's  Theatre  in 
Boston  to  see  "Alice  in  Wonderland."  The 
Emerson  School  of  Oratory  is  doing  a  good 
work  in  putting  on  a  weekly  play  suitable  for 
children. 

Three  new  house  pupils  for  the  second  half 
year.  Eleanor  Faxon  of  Wellesley  Hills,  who 
has  been  a  day  pupil,  has  come  to  live  with  us 
for  the  remainder  of  the  year.  We  are  also 
glad  to  welcome  Mary  and  Virginia  Cowles 
into  our  family. 


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'We  are  enjoying  having  our  own  rink  on 
our  grounds.  Coasting  is  good  and  skiing — 
and  the  best  part  is  that  we  do  not  have  to  go 
away  from  our  own  grounds  for  any  of  the 
winter  sports. 

The  first  recital  by  pupils  of  the  Music  De- 
partment of  the  Woodland  Park  School  was 
given  on  the  afternoon  of  December  the 
eleventh,  in  the  "Blue  Room,"  which  was  ar- 
tistically decorated  with  flowers. 

The   following  program,   all  of  which  was 
given  from  memory,  was  listened  to  with  inter- 
est by  a  large  group  of  parents  and  friends. 
Pianoforte  Duet — "March"  F.  A.  Porter 

Junior  Best — Miss   Bunting 
Study  in   C  major  Porter 

Donald   Winslow 
Little   Melody  Porter 

Helen   Miller 
Theme    from    Haydn  arr.   by   Hannah    Schmitt 

Ada  Hanscom 
Mazurka  Englemann 

Sara  Hurst 
Song,   "Where   Go   the  Winds" 

Woodland    Park    Chorus 

a.  "To  a  Wild  Rose"  MacDowell 

b.  Dance   Caprice  Grieg 

Elizabeth  Retan 
A  la  Valse  ,  Lemoine 

Katherine  Braithwaite 
In  an  Alabama  Cabin  Cadman 

Gwendolyn  McDonald 
Christmas   Carols 

a.  Silent   Night 

b.  The  First  Noel 

Woodland  Park  Chorus 
In  Merry  Mood  -  Morton 

Helen    Palmateer 
Waltz   in  Ab  major  Karganoff 

Esther   Curtis 
"The    Butterfly"  Grieg 

Erna  Schmidt 
Italian  Folk  Song  "Naples" 

Woodland  Park  Chorus 


JUNIOR  ROSTER 


Andrews.   Cordelia  G.,   Pasadena,   Cal. 
Ballentine.   A.   Lenore,   Bernardsville,   N.   J. 
Relle   Isle,   Celina  M.,   Beacon.   N.   Y. 
Benedix,    Cora   H.,   Ipswich,    Mass. 
Benson,   Caroline  R.,   Amesbury,   Mass. 
Blanchard,  Emily  L.,   Nutley,   N.  J. 
Bliven,   Marian  A..   Norwich,    Conn. 


Boadway,    Edith    M.,    Pasadena,    Cal. 

Bodwell.  Marion,  Sanford,  Me. 

Brockett,   Minnie   B.  K.,   New  Haven,   Conn. 

Brooks,   Carolyn,   Gardner,  Mass. 

Brown,  Marian  A.,   Easthampton,   Mass. 

Butler,    H.    Pauline,    Haverhill,    Mass. 

Carleton,   Elizabeth,    Providence,   R.    I. 

Chandler,  Carolyn  N.,  East  Bridgewater,  Mass. 

Cole.   Bernice   H.,   Brewer,   Me. 

Conger,  Helen,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Conklin,  Leonora  F.,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Coons,  Helen  L.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Crowell,  Elsie  M.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Cunningham,   Dorothy,   Denver,    Colo. 

Disher.    Ruth   E.,    Milwaukee,   Wis. 

Doane.   Lilian   E.,    Montreal,    Que. 

Dodge.  Ada,  Houston,  Texas. 

Edwards.   Dorothy  R.,   Maiden,   Mass. 

Ely,  Dorothy,   Newark,   N.  J. 

Flynn,  Eileen  M.,  Lawrence,   Mass. 

Galvin,    Mary   A.,   Centralia,   Wash. 

Geist,   Jeanette   E.,   Toledo,   O. 

Gilmore,   Marjorie  M.,   Lowell,   Mass. 

Greene,  Florence  E.,   Dallas,  Texas. 

Greenwood,   Mary   E.,    Chester,   Vt. 

Hannah,  Janet   MacD.,   Fitchburg,   Mass. 

Harrington,  Ruth,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Hawks,   Harriet   S.,   Greenfield,  Mass. 

Hayes,   Marjorie  B.,   Brighton,   Mass. 

Hurley,  Lorraine  C,  Marlboro,  Mass. 

Jackson,   Mary  A.,  Toledo,   O. 

Jacobs,  Helen  G.,  Attleboro,  Mass. 

Jenks,   Ruth  A.,  Ware,   Mass. 

Johnson,    Helen,    Washington,    D.    C. 

Johnson,  Ruth  E.,  Muscatine,  la. 

Kaiser.    Marceline    L:,    Altadena,    Cal. 

Keasor.  Melba  T.,  Laconia,'  N.  H. 

King,  Mary  I.,   Haverhill,   Mass. 

Knight,  Mildred  A.,  So.  Portland,  Me. 

Lewis,  Dorothy  L.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Loomis,  Margaret  V.,  Chicago,  111. 

Lucas,  Gladys  V.,  Johnstown,  N.  Y. 

Melanson,   Jessie   L.,    Swampscott,    Mass. 

Miller,   Laura  E..   Orange,   N.   J. 

Moore,   Maurine,   Chicago,   111. 

Morgan,  Doris  F.,   Beverly,  Mass. 

Morrison,    Hazel,    Melrose,    Mass. 

Newhall,  Natalie  C,  Assonet,  Mass. 

Ordway,  Ruth  H.,  Jamaica  Plain,   Mass. 

Pape,  Alice  E.,   Cincinnati,   O. 

Perkins,  Doris  E.,  Lebanon,  Ind. 

Perkins,   Eunice   E.,   Pasadena,   Cal. 

Phipps,  Mary  A.,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Rathbone,  Gladys  Y.,   Norwich,   Conn. 

Rawlings,   Ruth  M.,   El   Paso,   Texas. 

Schweitzer,  Herma  L.,  Toledo,  O. 

Shove.  Dorothy  A.,  Marshalltown,  la. 


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Simmers,   Frances   I.,  East   Liverpool,   O. 
Smith,  Feme  M.,  Caribou,  Me. 
Smith,   Ruth  A.,   Chelmsford,   Mass. 
Smith,  R.  Madaline,  Brighton,  Mass. 
Spofford,  Ruth  G.,  Bradford,  Mass. 
Stevens,    Marion   A.,    Portland,   Me. 
Story,  Esther  H.,  Rockport,  Mass. 
Sullivan,  F.  Viola,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Temple,  Florence,  Denver,  Colo. 
Tillinghast,  Clarice  H.,   Sag  Harbor,   N.  Y. 
Van  Fleet,  Katherine,  Toledo,  O. 
Varney,   Vivian,  Ansley,   Neb. 
Walbridge,    Anne,   Russell,    Kansas. 
Warner,   Grace   E.,   Hartford,   Conn. 
Weil,   Esther  A.,   Chicago,   111. 
West,  Nell  B.,  Orange,  N.  J. 
Westphal,   Marion,  Joliet,   111. 
Wild,    Sarah    P.,    Sycamore,    111. 
Williams,   Gladys   G,   Taunton,   Mass. 


WHICH   SHALL   YOUR   SUMMER    BE? 


About  this  time  in  the  year  when  the  strain 
of  the  winter  work  begins  to  be  felt,  we  antici- 
pate the  ''long  vacation"  of  the  summer 
months.  From  this  distance  it  looks  so  in- 
viting and  all  too  short  to  do  the  many  things 
we  are  planning, — parties,  picnics,  visiting, 
auto  trips,  and  resting,  if  there  is  any  time 
left.  After  a  summer  of  such  a  program  is 
mother  not  usually  rather  glad  to  get  you 
back  to  school  to  rest  ?  How  much  better  to 
plan  for  a  summer  filled  with  just  the  best 
of  times  and  still  one  which  leaves  you  rested 
and  far  better  fitted  to  resume  your  winter 
work  with  renewed  strength  of  mind  and  body. 

It  was  because  of  just  this  condition  that 
summer  camps  for  girls  have  had  such  a  rapid 
growth  in  the  past  ten  years.  It  is  the  normal 
and  logical  solution  of  the  problem  of  what 
a  real  vacation  for  a  girl  should  be.  Camp 
continues  the  education  of  the  girl  and  in- 
creases her  mental  as  well  as  physical  con- 
dition in  a  way  that  a  summer  of  idleness  or 
all  play  can  not  possibly  accomplish.  If  there 
is  any  doubt  in  your  mind  about  the  best 
kind  of  a  summer,  ask  any  girl  who  has  spent 
a  season  at  camp  and  you  will  quickly  be  told 
of  all  the  wonderful  times  you  are  missing. 
Then,  too,  it  comes  in  just  the  right  part  of 
the  vacation.  It  gives  a  time  to  be  at  home 
and  see  all  the  friends  before  they  too  go 
away,  then  two  months  at  camp  through  the 
heat  of  the  summer,  and  a  period  for  visits 
and  trips  before  you  return  to  school  for  the 
winter. 

Against  the  tales  of  good  times  of  the  girl 
who  stays  at  home  and  seeks  her  pleasure  in 
a  whirl  of  gaiety,  balance  the  stories  of  those 
who  have  gone  to  camp  and  revelled  in  fun 
and  sport  but  are  refreshed  and  ready  to  face 
the  winter  work.  Then  you  too  will  be  as 
eager  as  they  to  join  the  fast  increasing  ranks 
of  camp  enthusiasts. 


More  than  one  Leaves  subscriber  has  de- 
clared the  Personals  to  be  the  most  interesting 
part  of  the  paper  and  the  best  part  of  the  Per- 
sonals, the  wedding  and  engagement  announce- 
ments. 

On  December  eighteenth  Marie  Henrietta 
Klenze,  '14,  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Martin 
J.  Hickey.  They  are  now  at  home  in  Atlanta, 
Georgia. 

Martha  White  Keith  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Mr.  Wade  Hamilton  Dowling  on  January 
sixth. 

On  January  seventeenth  Mary  Augusta  Fen- 
no,  '13,  and  Mr.  Albert  Louis  Stirn  were 
united  in  marriage  at  Canton,  Massachusetts. 

The  twenty- fourth  of  January  was  the  wed- 
ding day  of  May  Haughton  Gates  when  she 
became  Mrs.  Henry  Sanford  Beers. 

The  marriage  of  Hazel  Elizabeth  Shaw  to 
Mr.  Johri  Martin  Schaupp,  Jr.,  occurred  on 
January  the  twenty-eighth. 

On  January  thirty-first  Charlotte  Goodwin 
Joseph,  '13,  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mr. 
Thomas  Paul  Tuite. 

We  learn  from  Glenna  Webb  Tilton  that  her 
sister  Sibyl  has  recently  married  Robert  Do- 
herty  of  West  Palm  Beach,  Florida. 

The  engagement  of  Constance  Allen,  '18, 
and  Mr.  Robert  Raymond  Moyer,  brother  of 
our  Elizabeth  Moyer,  is  announced. 


An  interesting  note  from  Octavia  Atwood 
Hickcox,  '18,  tells  of  her  engagement  to  Mr. 
Justin  L.  Smith  of  Oakville,  Conn.  Mr.  Smith 
is  a  senior  at  the  Renssalaer  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute in  Troy,  New  York. 

To  these  brides  and  grooms  and  brides  and 
grooms  to  be  our  heartiest  congratulations ! 

We  very  properly  allow  our  Principal  Emeri- 
tus the  right  of  way.  Here  is  his  latest  mes- 
sage : 

"Lillian  Douglass,  '07,  of  Covina  and  Edith 
Simonds  Bennett  .called  today  and  we  had  a 
good  little  visit.  Both  look  very  well.  Lillian 
told  me  of  her  visit  to  Lasell  and  we  all  won- 
dered how  Lasell  could  take  care  of  so  large  a 
number  as  she  has  this  year.  Both  were  busy 
with  war  work  while  it  lasted. 

"Amye  Vickery  Bright  writes  from  7292 
Sunset  Boulevard,  Hollywood,  'Just  could  not 
resist  the  charms  of  a  winter  here  and  am 
again  in  your  midst.'  She  and  her  little  brood 
are  welcome. 

"Bess  Bailey  Van  Orsdall,  '96,  is  now  living 
in  Morral,  Ohio.  Says  her  girls  are  almost 
as  tall  as  she  is !  Her  husband  is  a  practising 
physican. 

"Saw  Mae  Chisholm  Brown  and  her  lovely 
baby  lady  today.  She  looks  well  and  says  Mr. 
Brown  is  much  better  and  having  a  good  time 
with  his  dairy  near  Corona,  California." 


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From  Harriet  Williams  Wilson  Dr.  Bragdon 
also  had  this  interesting  message  :  "I  have  been 
wishing  that  you  would  stop  off  to  see  us  again. 
We  are  expecting  Lucy  and  husband  home  for 
Xmas  and  my  youngest  daughter  Ruth,  who  is 
teaching  in  the  college  at  Anno  this  year  in 
the  Household  Arts  Dept.  The  second  daugh- 
ter, Nina,  feels  she  can't  bring  two  children 
this  time  of  year  and  come  home.  I  would 
enjoy  a  letter  from  you  very  much.  I  do  ap- 
preciate so  much  all  you  did  for  me  at  Lasell." 

Pauline  Collins  of  Oakland,  California, 
opens  her  letter  to  Dr.  Bragdon  with  the  title 
familiar  to  the  real  old  girls,  "My  dear  Pro- 
fessor." After  expressing  her  gratitude  for 
Dr.  Bragdon's  beautiful  letter  written  at  the 
time  of  her  father's  homegoing,  she  speaks  of 
what  a  comfort  it  is  to  remember  Dr.  Brag- 
don's personal  friendship  with  her  father  and 
adds,  "I  do  most  certainly  feel,  as  you  wrote, 
that  I  am  rich  in  having  had  such  a  father.  I 
am  proud  of  his  noble  name.  He  always  was 
most  devoted  and  so  tender  and  loving  in  all 
his  home-life.  I  really  think  it  was  wonderful 
to  think  how  much  he  made  of  his  life  in  the 
best  ways  when  he  had  so  little  to  do  with  in 
the  beginning.  After  all,  that  kind  of  a  life 
makes  the  best  men,  doesn't  it?  We  feel  so 
thankful  that  he  was  spared  to  us  so  long,  only 
last  year  he  and  mother  celebrated  their  golden 
wedding."  She  adds  that  her  two  children  are 
growing  fast  and  doing  well  in  school.  Pauline 
is  now  living  in  the  old  home  in  Oakland  and  is 
pleased  in  having  her  mother  with  her.  She 
is  glad  now  and  then  to  have  a  chance  to  see 
Fraulein  Roth. 

Dr.  Winslow's  happy  thought  of  writing  to 
the  old  girls  for  their  new  addresses  has 
brought  to  him  in  return  many  delightful  mes- 
sages and  quite  a  list  of  new  subscribers  for 
the  Leaves.  Alice  Dunsmore  VanHarlingen, 
'78,  answered  this  note  from  Dr.  Winslow  by 
a  note  to  the  Preceptress.  She  is  in  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  speaks  of  hearing  recently  from  Kitty 
Ellis,  '77 ;  Ida  Phillips,  '77 ;  Grace  Perkins  Pat- 
tillo,  '77;  Jennie  Darling  Folsom,  '78;  and 
Alice   Linscott    Hall,    '78.      Alice's    daughter. 


Lois,  is  the  wife  of  Commodore  Ingersoll,  who 
is  Executive  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Connecti- 
cut, Flagship  of  the  Second  Atlantic  Division. 
Last  winter  Alice  and  her  husband  spent  part 
of  the  time  with  this  daughter  in  Florida 
where  her  husband,  Commodore  Ingersoll, 
came  after  his  return  from  France  where  he 
was  on  the  Peace  Commission  under  Admiral 
Benson.  Alice  is  hoping  later  to  meet  Sue 
Davidson,  one  of  our  seniors,  when  she  re- 
turns, I  suppose,  after  graduation. 

Ada  Patterson's,  '15,  note  is  written  on  offi- 
cial paper  which  reminds  us  that  her  father, 
Hon.  F.  N.  Patterson,  is  one  of  the  judges  in 
that  region.  Ada  is  still  in  college  and  hoping 
this  spring  to  graduate  in  Piano.  The  class  of 
1915  have  been  one  wise  class  to  keep  up  their 
annual  letter  and  are  hoping  to  have  a  reunion 
at  Lasell  in  June.  By  the  way,  Ada  is  the  only 
one  to  receive  the  degree  in  Piano  this  year 
and  one  of  the  requisites  is  to  give  a  recital. 
We  are  glad  in  Ada's  success. 

A  number  of  the  old  girls  who  took  the 
course  in  Law,  perforce,  but  were  glad  after- 
wards that  it  was  obligatory,  will  remember 
the  lecturer,  Hon.  J.  AVeston  Allen,  and  be  in- 
terested to  know  that  he  has  been  recently 
elected  Attorney  General  of  Massachusetts. 

That  was  a  good  long  letter  from  Gladys 
Lawton,  '11,  to  our  Principal  and  he  was  kind 
enough  to  share  a  part  of  it  with  Gladys'  many 
friends.  She  tells  us  that  the  1911  class  re- 
union is  scheduled  to  take  place  this  coming 
spring  and,  while  she  is  afraid  that  she  will 
not  be  among  those  present,  she  hopes  for  old 
times'  sake  that  there  will  be  a  good  gathering 
to  represent  "our  famous  class."  She  speaks 
of  meeting  Miss  Rand  at  Annie  Merrill  Da- 
vid's, '12,  in  Upper  Montclair  and  getting  the 
latest  news.  "Miss  Rand  in  turn  gathered  in- 
formation concerning  my  latest  venture  which 
was  taking  up  a  homestead  in  California  a 
couple  of  years  ago  upon  which  I  lived  for 
fourteen  months  and  of  which  I  have  mem- 
ories wild  and  woolly."  Among  the  ex-Lasell- 
ites  whom  Gladys  has  met  in  California  re- 
cently are  Irene  Vedder  Reighard,  who  called 


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with  her  small  son  Rodney  to  welcome  us  back 
to  Pasadena.  She  speaks  of  Dr.  Bragdon's 
efficiency  in  keeping  in  touch  with  everybody 
and  gathering  them  together  when  it  comes 
time  for  the  Southern  California  Lasell  Club 
luncheon.  Gladys  closes  with  special  greetings 
to  Mrs.  Winslow  and  the  teachers,  and  best 
wishes  for  a  prosperous  year  for  Lasell. 

Old  girls  who  were  friends  of  Dessie  Milli- 
ken  Bevans,  '92,  and  her  daughter  Dorothy 
Bevans  Kramer,  will  be  interested  to  hear  of 
the  recent  honor  which  has  come  to  Colonel 
James  L.  Bevans,  who  was  decorated  by  Maj. 
Gen.  Edwards  with  the  Distinguished  Service 
Medal  received  for  service  in  solving  several 
important  problems  of  sanitation  and  evacua- 
tion in  the  Argonne-Meuse  offensive  while 
Chief  Surgeon  of  the  3d  Army  Corps. 

Mabelle  Whitney,  '03,  is  now  in  Springfield, 
Vermont,  doing  very  active  and  successful 
work  in  the  First  Methodist  Church  of  that 
place.  People  speak  of  her  as  the  "Assistant 
Pastor."  She  surely  has  a  responsible  posi- 
tion and  her  duties  would  warrant  that  title. 
She  had  a  letter  recently  from  Bessie  Fuller 
Perry,  '02,  who  has  accepted  the  Secretary- 
ship for  the  Home  and  Foreign  Missionary 
Society  in  the  New  England  District. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Clark  Gill,  70,  replies  to  the 
Principal's  questionnaire  in  her  usual  witty 
vein.  Those  of  us  who  know  her  wonder  if 
she  could  ever  strike  any  other.  She  congrat- 
ulates Dr.  Winslow  on  the  largest  enrollment 
ever.  After  referring  to  the  horrible  fascina- 
tion of  the  recent  war  she  declares  that  just 
now  she  is  inclined  to  hysterical  laughter  over 
the  merry-go-round  at  Washington  and  sug- 
gests the  pertinent  question,  "Ought  we  not  all 
to  get  off  the  stage  and  leave  the  world  for 
the  United  States  Senate  to  battle  in  ?"  Mrs. 
Gill  is  not  only  an  honored  graduate  of  our 
school,  but  the  daughter  of  our  beloved  Dr. 
William  Clark  for  whom  Clark  Cottage  was 
named. 

Sarah  Caldwell,  '06,  is  now  doing  splendid 
work  at  Pratt  Institute.  In  her  Christmas  let- 
ter to  Miss  Witherbee  she  tabulates  some  of 


the  practical  results  of  her  experience.  When 
out  of  class  her  entire  time  was  spent  in  mak- 
ing plum  puddings  and  fruit  cakes  to  fill  Xmas 
orders  for  the  faculty.  In  four  afternoons  and 
evenings  our  Sarah  made  sixty-five  small  fruit 
cakes  and  twenty-four  plum  puddings  and  did 
all  the  baking  in  the  school  kitchen.  We  wish 
we  had  time  to  give  her  letter  in  full.  It  is  a 
most  racy,  delightful  account  of  her  Christmas- 
tide  in  greater  New  York.  Isn't  this  a  good 
trade  last  for  Lasell  when  she  writes,  "My 
work  at  Lasell  and  my  years  of  experience  at 
home  have  made  the  work  here  very  easy  for 
me."  Towards  the  close  of  her  letter  she 
writes,  "Whom  do  you  think  I  met  in  New 
York  the  other  day?  Martha  Laurens  Patter- 
son, '07.  We  passed  each  other  and  then  both 
turned  to  look  for  neither  of  us  could  believe 
our  eyes.  She  was  here  only  for  a  few  days' 
visit  with  friends  and  waiting  for  the  return 
of  her  husband  from  South  America.  She  is 
the  same  old  Martha,  full  of  fun  yet  solemn 
looking.  She  said  I  was  the  first  Lasell  girl 
she  had  seen  since  '07."  Sarah  also  adds, 
"Louise  Kelly  Ultes,  '07,  has  left  Spokane 
and  she,  her  husband,  and  wonderful  young 
son,  are  living  in  Springfield,  Ohio,  her  old 
home.  Cora  Penniman  McFarland  writes  that 
they  have  bought  a  suburban  home  just  outside 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  they  are  very  proud 
of  their  country  place.  Cora  had  just  missed 
seeing  Bess  Price,  who  had  been  home  visiting 
her  mother.  Margaret  Henderson  Soule,  '05, 
is  living  in  Superior,  Arizona,  a  small  mining 
town.  She  writes  interesting  letters  about  her 
four  youngsters  and  their  doings.  She  cer- 
tainly must  be  an  excellent  manager  and  a 
wonderful  mother.  She  does  all  her  own 
work,  gives  all  the  children  music  lessons  and 
still  has  time  to  enjoy  everything  that  comes 
her  way.  The  last  I  heard  from  Gertrude 
Graham  Etchen,  '06,  she  was  planning  a  trip 
south  with  her  father  to  look  over  the  oil  fields. 
Annie  Dealey  Jackson,  '06,  is  kept  busy  by  her 
four  boys,  the  two  younger  ones  being  twins." 
Sarah  occasionally  hears  from  Fannie  Dealey 
Decherd,   '06,   and,  by  the  way,  I  wonder  if 


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Sarah  has  heard  of  the  great  fright  which  came 
to  Annie  and  her  husband  this  past  month 
when  their  house  was  entered  by  a  robber  who 
kept  them  at  bay  at  the  point  of  a  gun  while 
he  helped  himself  to  about  five  thousand  dol- 
lars' worth  of  jewelry  and  other  valuables. 
We  chanced  to  read  an  account  of  this  thrill- 
ing robbery  in  one  of  the  Dallas  daily  papers. 
How  grateful  we  are  to  Sarah  for  writing  this 
letter,  and  Miss  Witherbee  for  sharing  it  with 
the  readers  of  the  Leaves !  Etta  Thayer  on 
her  Christmas  card  to  Sarah  adds  this  bit  of 
news,  "Since  July  I  have  been  in  Vermont. 
In  October  Lillian  Douglas,  '07,  Florence  Lane 
Staebner,  '07,  and  I  met  in  Burlignton.  Lil- 
lian from  California,  Florence  and  husband 
from  Florida  and  I  from  Louisiana.  Lillian 
expects  to  write  up  her  eight  or  nine  months' 
trip  for  the  Leaves.  (In  the  words  of  our 
optimistic  Mrs.  Martin  we  cry  out,  'Some 
good  news  is  surely  coming.'  Don't  forget  us, 
Lillian!)  I  called  up  Ethel  West  while  in 
New  York  City.  Sally  Strong  has  inherited 
quite  a  fortune  from  her  aunt.  Edna  Strick- 
land Olson  has  three  children."  We  are  grate- 
ful for  every  word  concerning  this  special 
group  of  dear  Lasell  girls. 

One  of  the  most  attractive  exchanges  on 
the  Leaves  table  is  the  Tal  Bagh  Chronicle, 
which  we  feel  sure  comes  to  us  from  India 
through  the  courtesy  of  the  Blackstock  sisters. 
On  the  front  cover  of  the  October  number  is 
a  fine  photograph  of  Lilavati  Singh,  a  distin- 
guished young  Indian  woman. 
/  Nellie  Feagles  Kattelle,  '99,  writes  on  her 
official  paper  which  reads  "Illinois  Sixth  Con- 
gressional District,  Federation  of  Women's 
Clubs."  We  are  not  surprised  that  she  de- 
clares herself  unusually  interested  in  the  Civic 
Department  of  the  Women's  Club  and  in  get- 
ting the  public  school  children  the  opportunity 
to  hear  the  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra  at 
least  once  a  month.  She  is  also  Chairman 
of  the  Conservation  for  the  Sixth  District  of 
thirty-two  clubs.  She  and  her  husband  went 
West  instead  of  East  last  summer  and  camped 
for  a  number  of  weeks  in  the  Rocky  Moun- 


tains and  National  Park.  She  closes  with 
these  friendly  words,  "I  shall  never  forget 
my  Alma  Mater  and  her  interests."  ' 

Elizabeth  Lum,  '01,  writes  from  Whittier, 
California.  She  is  interested  in  Dr.  Win- 
slow's  questionnaire  and  assures  him  that  she 
always  "boosts  for  Lasell."  She  hopes  some 
time  to  get  back  to  New  England  and  Auburn- 
dale,  which  is  the  one  spot  where  she  hopes 
to  feel  at  home.  She  extends  a  cordial  invita- 
tion to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  to  come  West. 

Harriette  Ward  Walker,  '01,  writes  of  her 
continued  love  for  Lasell,  tells  us  that  she  has 
two  little  girls  six  and  twelve  years  old  who 
are  getting  interested  in  reports  of  "Mamma's 
college"  and  we  secretly  are  hoping  that  some 
day  they  will  try  their  mother's  school.  They 
certainly  would  be  most  welcome. 

From  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  Avila 
Grubbs  Lafon,  '99,  writes,  "It  is  wonderful 
the  way  Lasell  keeps  in  touch  with  its  pupils. 
No  wonder  the  second  generation  go  there. 
My  girls  are  only  eight  and  three  years  old 
but  it  will  seem  only  to-morow  when  they  are 
ready  to  pack  their  trunks.  Just  a  few  words 
to  those  who  may  remember  as  far  back  as 
'99.  My  husband  was  in  France  for  eighteen 
months,  a  Major  in  the  20th  Engineers.  I 
took  my  children  back  to  Kentucky  during 
his  absence  and  we  returned  last  May.  I 
hoped  we  were  to  settle  down  and  'live  hap- 
pily ever  after'  but,  alas,  no.  In  a  short 
time  the  British  Government  made  him  such 
a  tempting  offer  for  two  years  in  India  that 
he  sailed  the  first  of  November.  If  he  cables, 
I  will  follow  with  the  children  in  February. 
If  not,  I  will  take  the  children  back  to  my 
family  and  go  alone  to  be  with  him  the  last 
year.  I  have  seen  none  of  the  old  girls  ex- 
cept Clara  Davis  Lounsbury,  '98,  who  lives 
in  Seattle.  She  is  very  happy  and  prosper- 
ous and  has  two  boys."  Avila's  closing  mes- 
sage is,  "May  the  school  succeed  and  advance 
with  each  new  year !" 

Among  the  latest  newcomers  in  the  fam- 
ilies of  old  Lasell  girls  are  three  little  boys. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cornelius  J.  Peeples   (May 


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Florine  Thielins)  a  son,  Cornelius  James,  Jr., 
was  born  on  January  2nd. 

A  son,  Robert  Lucas  Grant,  came  on  Jan- 
uary 8th  to  bless  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
B.  M.  Grant,  3rd  (Louise  Lucas). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Guy  A.  Rogers  (Eila  A. 
Patterson)  announce  the  arrival  of  John  Al- 
son  Rogers  on  January  10th. 

We  regret  we  cannot  enroll  them  at  Lasell, 
but   our   congratulations    are    just    as   hearty. 

How  interested  we  were  to  learn  from 
Helen  Rishell's,  '99,  letter  that  she  is  now  a 
graduate  of  the  Boston  School  of  Occupa- 
tional Therapy  and  did  work  as  Reconstruc- 
tion Aide  in  Camp  Taylor,  Louisville,  Ky. 
She  is  now  doing  the  same  work  under  the 
Public  Health  Service  and  is  stationed  at 
the  U.  S.  Marine  Hospital  at  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Three  years  ago  she  did  similar  work  in  the 
Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  of  the  Massachusetts 
General  Hospital.  After  years  of  invalidism 
Helen  is  now  enjoying  good  health  and  her 
work.  We  sincerely  extend  to  her  our  best 
wishes  and  trust  she  will  cany  out  her  friend- 
ly threat  to  come  more  frequently  to  visit 
Lasell. 

Our  Principal  was  especially  pleased  to  re- 
ceive a  message  from  Adrianna  Chandler 
Bradford,  '68,  whose  home  is  in  Mechanic 
Falls,  Maine.  She  certainly  is  in  the  very  cen- 
ter of  an  educational  zone,  being  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Kent's  Hill,  Bates  College,  Colby 
College  and  other  educational  institutions,  but 
is  kind  enough  to  say  that  they  are  not  to  be 
compared  with  dear  Lasell.  She  pays  a  special 
compliment  to  our  ideals  for  broad  educational 
training  and  still  rejoices  to  hear  all  the  good 
news  of  Lasell's  growth  and  thinks  that  a 
visit  to  her  old  school  would  be  most  inspir- 
ing. Mrs.  Bradford  graduated  fifty-two  years 
ago.  How  sincerely  we  value  the  years  of 
friendship  of  this  Lasell  girl  of  long  ago ! 

Virginia  Quarles,  '19,  spent  a  week-end  re- 
cently as  the  guest  of  Priscilla  Alden  Wolfe, 
'19,  and  such  a  dear  glimpse  as  Virginia  has 
given  us  of  Priscilla  in  her  new  home.  Fur- 
thermore,  this  little  ex-President   favored  us 


recently  with  a  call  bringing  with  her  her  sis- 
ter-in-law, Priscilla  Wolfe,  whom  we  sincerely 
hope  liked  us  well  enough  to  enroll  in  our  ros- 
ter for  next  year. 

Evelyn  Dunham  Mason,  '15,  surprised  us 
recently  by  joining  us  at  luncheon.  She  never 
looked  prettier  and  we  are  sure  she  was  never 
happier  than  these  days.  We  were  sorry  her 
call  was  a  brief  one. 

Beulah  Coward  Bresee  and  Mildred  Strain, 
'17,  and  Ruth  Cody  dropped  in  for  a  few 
moments  only.  We  were  sorry  that  an  en- 
gagement prevented  the  Personals  Editor  from 
hearing  Beulah  enthuse  over  her  dear  little 
son. 

It  is  nineteen  years  since  Eva  Raymond 
Perkins,  '00,  and  Grace  Richards  Woodworth 
were  at  Lasell  and  just  that  number  of  years 
since  they  had  met.  Wasn't  it  kind  of  them  to 
have  their  reunion  at  the  old  school  home? 

Seldom  has  Lasell  been  more  saddened  than 
learning  of  the  passing  away  of  Emma  Sears 
May,  '57.  During  all  these  years  this  Lasell 
graduate  has  been  most  loyal  and  faithful  to 
her  Alma  Mater.  Mrs..  May  was  a  member 
of  one  of  the  most  representative  New  Eng- 
land families,  her  father  being  a  descendant 
of  Richard  Sears,  the  Pilgrim,  who  served  in 
the  Brewster  militia  during  the  War  of  1812. 
The  Boston  Transcript  in  speaking  of  her 
writes,  "She  was  of  Mayflower  ancestry,  was 
for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Sarah  Hull 
Chapter,  D.  A.  R.  in  Newton."  We  shall 
greatly  miss  her  presence  at  our  reunions  but 
are  grateful  for  her  many  years  of  loyalty. 
Our  tenderest  sympathy  is  extended  to  the 
bereaved  relatives. 


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THE    BEST    SELLERS 

"Where  Laborers  are  Few,"  Senior  Class. 
"Seats  of  the  Mighty,"  Front  rows  in  chapel. 
"Up  from  Slavery,"  When  Freshies  become 

Sophs. 
"Idols,"   Seniors. 

"Wonder  Book,"  Deeds  of  Class  of  1921. 
"The  Long  Night,"   Before   exams. 
"The  Danger  Mark,"  F. 
"The  Halo,"  A  diploma. 
"The  Last  Trail,"  Leaving  Lasell. 


THINGS    WE'D    LIKE    TO    SEE 

A  hat  for  the  brow  of  a  hill, 

A  belt  for  the  waist  of  time, 

A  glove  for  the  hand  of  destiny, 
A  sleeve  for  the  arm  of  the  law, 

A  shoe  for  the  foot  of  the  mountain, 
A  cap  for  the  head  of  navigation, 

A  ring  for  the  finger  of  fate. 


The  Senior  class  we'll  all  admit 
Is  clever  and  we're  proud  of  it 
But  Juniors  bold  are  clever,  too. 
Just  you  wait  till  we  tell  you: 
Stole  the  banner — kept  it  long, 
Returned  it  with  a  clever  song; 
Caps  and  gowns  were  sadly  missed, 
Juniors  were  to  blame  for  this. 
Of  course,  they  hate  to  trouble  you 
But  '21  is  right  there,  too. 


"Ivy,  why  don't  you  cling  to  me?" 
He  cried  in  whispers  thick ; 
"Oh,  Archibald,  I  will,"  she  cried, 
"I  think  that  you're  a  brick." 


Teacher:  "When  do  the  leaves  begin  to 
turn  ?" 

K.  Forgie:  "The  day  before  examina- 
tions." 


Father :  "Can't  you  possibly  cut  down  your 
school  expenses?" 

Daughter:  "I  might  possibly  do  without 
my  books." 


Teacher  :     "Who  sits  behind  you  Carolyn  ?" 
C.  Brooks  :     "Nobody,  she's  absent." 


Willie  Jr. :     "Cupid  isn't  in  it  as  a  marks- 
man." 

K.  Rice:     "Why  not?" 

Willie  Jr. :     "He's  always  making  Mrs." 


Mrs.  O'Hara:     "I  want  a  pair  of  shoes  for 
my  daughter." 

Salesman:     "French  kid,  madam?" 
Mrs.  O'Hara:     "No,  Irish." 


D.  Shove:  "Your  mother  says  you  took 
business  arithmetic." 

M.  Bodwell:  "I  was  exposed,  but  I  didn't 
take  it." 


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SLNIOHS 


after 
Classifications 

Jimmie :     "I  bumped  my  crazy  bone." 
Pete :     "It  surely  hurts  to  hit  your  head." 


D.  Perkins :     "What  piece  is  she  playing  on 
the  piano  ?" 

E.  Perkins :     "Je  ne  sais  pas." 

D.    Perkins:      "Pretty   isn't   it?     Who's    it 
by  ?" 


OVERHEARD 

Sewing  Student :  "Mrs.  Saunders,  should 
we  stuff  these  initials  ?" 

•  F.  Temple:     "I've  got  to  have  a  drink  so  I 
guess  I'll  eat  some  snow." 

Miss  P.  to  Ethel  Wills  who  hurt  her  leg, 
coasting:  "Oh,  my  poor  little  white  dove,  you 
bruised  your  wing !" 

"Wind,"  said  the  student,  "is  air  in  a  hurry." 


She :     "Cook  spoiled  the  dinner,  will  you  be 
sa'isfied  with  a  kiss?" 

He :     "Yes,  brine  her  in." 


Father:  "Who  called  last  night?" 

Marion:  "Only    Peg." 

Father :  "Tell  Peg  she  left  her  pipe  on  the 
piano." 


"Do  you  like  codfish  balls  ?" 

"I  don't  know,  I  never  attended  one." 


Miss  Potter:     "What  is  a  centurion?" 
Student :     "A  person  who  lives  a  hundred 
years,  I  guess." 


E.  J. :     "What  is  a  freezing  mixture  ?" 
Student :     "When  you  and  I  don't  agree." 


Nell  West :  "This  tooth-ache  will  drive 
me  to  drink." 

F.  Temple :  "There's  plenty  in  your  (wa- 
ter)   bottle." 


"Why  are  Woodland  Park  lights  like  Lasell 
Basketball  players  ?" 

"Because  they're  never  out." 


Lillian  Doane :     "Can  you  keep  a  secret?" 
Viola   Sullivan :      "I   can,   but   it's   just  my 
luck  to  tell  it  to  some  one  who  can't." 


Lven  dignified  (?^  Seniors  ()lajj! 


AS   WE   SEE   OTHERS 


The  Boston  University  Beacon,  Boston. 
Mass. :  Very  good  magazine.  Plenty  of  sto- 
ries  and  poems. 

The  Authentic,  Stoneham,  Mass.:  In  your 
"Junior  Number,"  a  great  amount  of  class 
spirit  shown.     Complete  magazine. 

The  Student,  Portsmouth,  Va. :  Quite  a 
lot  of  jokes  and  poems  but  where  is  your  ex- 
change ? 

The  Recorder.  Syracuse,  N.  Y. :  Your 
"Good  English  Week"  is  clever.  A  few  pic- 
tures would  help  your  magazine. 

The  Artisan,  Bridgeport,  Conn.:  A  very 
neat  magazine.  The  cover  design  is  good. 
Your  exchange  is  missing". 

The  Villa  Marion,  Immaculate,  Penn. : 
Splendid  stories  but  no  sketches  or  snaps. 

Alpha,  New  Bedford,  Mass. :  Your  ex- 
change in  poetr}'  is  very  clever. 

Stetson  Oracle  :  A  very  compact  magazine. 
Your  exchange  is  well   handled. 

The  Golden  Rod,  Quincy,  Mass. :  Your 
jokes  are  good  and  your  cartoons  are  clever. 

The    Columbian.    Columbia,    S.    C. :      Your 


sketches  are  very  good  and  would  be  a  help 
to  any  magazine. 

The  High  School  News,  Beaumont,  Tex. : 
AYe  have  been  eagerly  anticipating  you.  Our 
former  exchange  editor  told  us  that  you  are 
the  best  exchange.  We  are  not  a  bit  disap- 
pointed. We  wish  to  compliment  you  on  the 
Exchange  Department.  We  are  glad  to  see 
one  magazine  which  fully  realizes  the  value 
of  having  a  complete  one. 

sLbout  St.  Agnes,  Albany,  N.  Y. :  The  gen- 
eral appearance  of  a  paper  is  immensely  im- 
proved by  having  so  many  cuts  and  pictures. 

Brinuncrivrites,  Boston,  Mass.:  Your  joke 
column  is  such  as  we  have  always  wished  to 
have  in  our  magazine.  The  cuts  for  your 
various  departments  fully  live  up  to  their 
heading. 

We  acknowledge  with  thanks  the  following 
exchanges :  Argus,  Gardner  High  School, 
Gardner,  Mass. ;  Awquam,  Redwood  Falls, 
Minn. ;  Acropolis,  Barrington  High  School, 
Newark,  N.  J.;  About  St.  Agnes,  St.  Agnes 
High  School.  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  Academy  Month- 
ly. Germantown  Academy,  Philadelphia,  Pa. ; 
Advocate,  Maysville,  Ky. ;  Commerce  Caravel, 
High  School  of  Commerce,  New  York  City ; 
Columbian,  Columbia  High  School,  Columbia, 
S.  C. ;  Ccbcrus,  Ashley  Hall,  Charlestown,  S. 


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C. ;  Collegian,  Clinton,  S.  C. ;  Chathamite, 
Chatham  Institute,  Chatham,  Va. ;  Dickinson 
Union,  Williamsport,  Pa. ;  East  Orange  High 
School  News,  East  Orange,  N.  J. ;  Exponent, 
Greenfield,  Mass. ;  Garnet  and  Gray  Review, 
Swarthmore,  Pa. ;  Hallock  School  Record, 
Great  Barrington,  Mass. ;  High  School  Review, 
Lowell,  Mass. ;  High  School  Beacon,  Beacon, 
N.  Y. ;  Missile,  Petersburg,  Va. ;  Optimist, 
South  Side  High  School,  Newark,  N.  J. ;  Oak 
Leaves,  St.  Faiths  High  School,  Saratoga 
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dletown,  N.  Y. ;  Radnorite,  Wayne,  Pa. 


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Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oil*-,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  281  1 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


LASELL   LEAVES 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


29 


PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics   for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place        15  West  Street 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,   90   and    92,    16   and    17   North   Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,    Mass. 

W".  S.  GLIDDEN.  Pies.  H.    F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  CUMMING.  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mgr. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and   4   Faneuil   Hall   Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


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Women's  Cloth  and  Fur  Coats 


383  WASHINGTON  STREET 
BOSTON 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON   CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter- Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


30 


LASELL    LEAVES 


NEW 
PLAID 


SKIRTS 


$25.00 


Box  plaited  skirts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


L  P.  Hollander  Co. 

MISSES'   AND   YOUNG   LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -      Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 
Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


LASELL   LEAVES 


31 


1  he  Boston  lVlusic  v^o. 

(G.   Schirmer) 

The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 

26  West  street 

Tel.  :  Beach   1561 

rax  Brothers 

TtoniSTs 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

ltnlrt0  an*  ®rrl|tb0 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipts 

Packed    in    Stone  Jars 

A.  T.  BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78  Portland  St.,   Boston 

Tel.   577    Haymarket 
Send  for   price  list   of  over  60   kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
Ityarmariai 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


32 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     ■        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars   -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.  BERMAN,  Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299  Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newton  West  965-J 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies '    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresses 

303  AUBURN  ST..  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 
AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach   1 45 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


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The    most     delicate     and      delicious    flavored 
chocolate    to   be    found   anywhere 


LA5ELL  LEAVES 


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LASELL  LEAVES 


Anticipating    Spring 

We  Invite  Your  Consideration  of  Our  Attractive  New  Models  for  Early  Season  Wear 


towns 


Suits 


Coats 


Hats 


Modes  as  Smart  as  they  are  Youthful  and  Becoming 

Also,  New  Undermuslins,  Hosiery 
Shoes — in  fact  everything  to  wear 

Our  Shopping  Counsellor  is  at  Your  Service — without  charge 

Jordan    Marsh    Company 

Boston's  —  and  New  England's  —  Greatest  Store 


41*SUMMER*ST. 


New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 


Diamonds 
Watches 

Bracelet  Watches 
Platinum  Jewelry 
Green  Gold  Jewelry 
Gold  Pocket  Knives 
Gold  Pencils 


Silver  Goods 
Fancy  Bead  Chains 
Roman  Pearls 
Cameo  Brooches 
Vanity  Cases 
Doreen  Boxes 
Photo  Frames 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 


Leather  Goods 
Fountain  Pens 
Chafing  Dishes 
Percolators 
Parisian  Ivory 
Ebony  Goods 
Panel  Minors 


Our    Watch    and    Jewelry    Repair     Departments    do    the    best 

work  at  very   low  prices 

Engraving   Department 

Plate  and    100     Visiting     Cards,     Script     $2.75 
Plate  and    100   Visiting   Cards,   Old   Eng.   $4.75 

MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON    -       -       -       -'    AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161   Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


306  Fifth  Ave. 

392  Fifth  Ave. 

New  York 


0ST0N* 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting  and  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  on- 
looker say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness  ! " — and  also  to 
our  mind  a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price, 
AS  OURS  DOES. 
WE  TAKE  PLEASURE  IN  ANNOUNCING  TO  THE  STUDENTS 
OF  LASELL  OUR  NEW  AND  EXCLUSIVE  PARIS  ETCHING 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Dress-smartness  is  not  merely  Style  —  it  is  Style  plus 
Good  Taste,  and  entirely  governed  by  the  latter. 
Slattery  Suits,  Coats,  Gowns  and  Accessories  for  women 
and  misses  are  notably  individual,  planned  to  fit  various 
types  —  yet  always  exclusive  and  of  refined  design. 
From  Hats  to  Hosiery,  from  Furs  to  the  lightest  Fan 
for  evening,  the  woman's  wants  are  considered. 

Betty  Wales  Frocks  Are  More  Delight- 
ful   This    Season     Than    Ever    Before. 

E.T.  SLATTERY  CO. 

TREMONT  STREET  -  BOSTON 

Opposite  cBoston  Gommotx 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Chenille  Rugs  and  Speed 


"THE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.     If  you  desire  to  adorn  a  room  or  hall  or  stairway 

with  these  superb  made-to-  order  Rugs,  come  and  see  us  as  soon  as  possible,  as  some 
time  will  be  required. 

We  can  show  you  samples  of  all  colors  and  designs.  Our  know-how  men  will  take 
the  measurements  and  advise  as  to  tone  effects.     The  mills  will  do  the  rest. 

Plain  colors  with  two-tone  band  borders  are  favorites.  Speaking  of  plain  colors,  here 
are  a  few  of  the  many — grey,  blue,  green,  wistaria,  camel,  rose,  sand,  lavender,  cocoa,  taupe 
faun,  mulberry,  mole,  cafe-au-lait,  putty. 

These  made-to-measure  Rugs  are  seamless  up  to  thirty  feet  width.  Good  for  any  room 
and  good  the  year  round.     Soft   as   velvet   under  foot,    yet   last   for   years   and   years.     Wide 


range 


of 


prices. 


John  H.   Pray  &  Sons  Co. 

646  Washington  St.,  Opp.  Boylston,  Boston 


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Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweates 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON    HILL    STATIONERS 

Pemberton  /    Square 

BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 

Telephone  686  Haymarket 


BteELL    [EAVES 

Vol.  XXXXV        LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE  66,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  MARCH,  1920  No.  6 

Published   Monthly    from   October   to   June    by   the   Lasell    Seminary    Students. 

Entered  as   second-class   matter   at  the   Boston,   Mass.,   Post  Office. 

Acceptance   for  mailing   at   special   rate   of   postage   provided   for   in   Section   1103,  Act  of  October   3,    1917,   authorized  on  October  28,    1918. 

LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business    Manager  Editor-in-Chief  Subscription    Editor 

KATHERINE  RICE  FRANCES   HEATH  MARGARET    STEWART 

*                          Local    Editors  Assistant    Editor                                                                      Assistant 

MARJORIE   HUSSEY  „  HELEN   BALCOM                                                MARION    EATON 
HELEN   FILES 

Art    Editors 

T  ,       _ ...  ELAINE    BASS                                                                 Literary   Editor 

Joke    Editor  DOROTHY    RAICH                                                       GLADYS   BURNET 

DORIS   ROGERS  DUKUim    bali_h 

Assistant  Athletic  Editor  Exchange  Editor 

DORIS  WHITNEY  JOSEPHINE   FLORENCE  FLORENCE   KUHN 

TERMS,  in  Advance:     One  Copy,   one  year,    (including   postage),   $1.00.      Single  Copies,  15  cents. 

CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE      4-5 

LITERARY 

The   Princess  H.  Brooks     14 

A  Sword  and  a  Fan M.  Perky     17 

Nan        H.  Westerveh     18 

EDITORIAL 21 

LOCALS 23 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 26 

NEW  YORK  ALUMNAE  REUNION 26 

PERSONALS     • 28 

EXCHANGES 34 

JOKES •  35 


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"TO  OUR  GUARDIANS' 


We  have  frequently  displeased  you, 
Caused  unnecessary  sorrow 
By  the  putting  off  of  duties, 
Leaving  them  until  the  morrow : 
Rousing  you  from  rest  at  night  time, 
We  have  inconvenienced  you, 
Thinking  of  our  selfish  selves 
And  the  things  we  wished  to  do. 
But  we  ask  that  you  forgive  us, 
For  each  heart  doth  hold  forever, 
Love    and    gratitude   undying, — 
Bonds  that  can  be  broken  never. 

G.  Burnet. 


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CLASS       OK       192  0 


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Katherine  Rice — "K" — 
President  Senior 
Class,  Glee  Club  Lead- 
er, Capt.  Crew,  Dra- 
matics, Basket  Ball, 
Student  Council, 
"Leaves"  staff,  Presi- 
dent Missionary  So- 
ciety,  Orphean. 


Josephine  Florence  — 
"Joe" — Newark,  N.  J. 
Cheer  Leader  Senior 
class,  Capt  Basket 
Ball,  President  Ath- 
letic Association,  Man- 
dolin Club. 


Anna    E.    Crane — "Ann" 

— Tippecanoe     City,     O. 

Vice-president     Senior 

class.       Basket      Ball, 

Crew,   Mandolin   Club. 


Frances   Adams — "Fran" 
— Castleton,   Vt. 


Eleanor  A.  Thompson — 
"Tommy"  —  Amenia, 
N.  Y.,  Secretary  Sen- 
ior Class,  Crew,  Stu- 
dent   Council. 


Dorothy  Balch  —  "Dot" 
— Marshalltowu,  Iowa. 
Secretary  Student 
Council,  "Leave  s" 
staff,  Studio  Club,  Or- 
phean. 


Frances  Heath — "Fran- 
kie" — Concord,  K.  H. 
Treasurer  Senior 
class.  Editor        of 

"Leaves,"      Mandolin 
Club. 


Elaine  Bass — "Laine" — 
Bangor,  Me.  "Leaves" 
staff.  Dramatics,  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer 
Maine  Club,  Studio 
Club. 


Helen  Balcom — "Balkie" 
—Buffalo,  N,  Y.  Song- 
leader  Senior  class, 
"Leaves"  staff,  Glee 
Club,  Dramatics,  Or- 
phean. 


Sylvia  Bregman — "Sliv." 
— Chicago,  111. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Helen  Brooks,  Gardner, 
Mass.  Glee  Club,  Or- 
phean,   Orchestra. 


Doris    Crawford — "Dor" 
Parkersburg,   W.   Va. 


Gladys  M.  Burnet — 
"Glad"  —  Madison,  N. 
J.  "Leaves"  staff, 
Glee  Club,  Dramatics, 
Treasurer  Missionary 
Society,    Orphean. 


Sue  Davidson,  Atlanta, 
Ga.  Glee  Club,  Or- 
phean. 


Dorothy  Burnham  — 
"Dot" — Newton,  Mass. 
Glee  Club,  Dramatics, 
Orphean. 


Ruth  Davis  —  "Ruthie" 
— Sanford,  Me.  Glee 
Club,  Orphean. 


Doris     Campbell,     South 
Bend,  Ind. 


Eloise  Carey  —  Harbor 
Springs,  Mich.  Glee 
Club,  Basket  Ball 
Manager,    Orphean. 


Marion  Eaton — "Pat" — 
Youngstown,  N.  Y. 
President  Christian 
Endeavor,  Dramatics. 


Helen  Files,  Brunswick, 
Me.  President  Stu- 
dent Council,  "Leaves" 
staff.  Dramatics,  Or- 
phean. 


10 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Isabel     Fish,     Merrimac, 
Mass.     Orphean. 


Lillian  Grant,  Man- 
chester, Conn.  Or- 
phean. 


Katherine  Forgie — "K" 
— Dorchester.  Mass. 
Orphean,   Crew. 


Louise  Furbush  — 
"Louie"  —  Brighton, 
Mass. 


Marguerite  Hardy  — 
"Marg" —  Huntington, 
Mass.      Orphean. 


Ruth    Hayden,    Ventnor, 
N.  J. 


Freda  Griffin — "Fritter" 
— H  a  r  t  f  o  r  d.  Conn. 
Crew,  Basket  Ball, 
Studio  Club. 


Mary  E.  Hubbard,  Hol- 
lywood,  Cal.   Orphean. 


Alice    Grimes  —  "Al"  — 
Sterling,  111.   Crew. 


Marjorie  Hussey — "Peg- 
gie" —  Augusta,  Me. 
"Leaves"  staff,  Basket 
Ball. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


11 


Muriel  James  —  "Jifn- 
mie" — Summit.  N.  J. 
Basket  Ball,  Crew, 
Dramatics,  Orphean. 


Bernice    Lyon — ''Bunny" 
— Hartford,   Conn. 


Gladys  Keniston  — 
"Glad"  —  Sacremento. 
Cal.  Student  Coun- 
cil,  Crew,  Orphean. 


Elizabeth  Manville  — 
"Betty"  —  Ansonia, 
Conn.      Orphean. 


Helen  Kirkpatrick  — 
"K«rky"  —  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.  Or- 
phean. 


Florence  Kuhn  —  "Flo" 
Champaign,  111. 
"Leaves"  staff. 


Rosalie   Louis,    Danville, 
111. 


B  e  u  1  a  h  McFarland, 
Johnson,  Vt.  Glee 
Club,  Orphean. 


Helen  O'Brien,  East  Or- 
ange, N.  J. 


Charlotte    Parker,    Mai- 
den,  Mass. 


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Mildred  Patten  —  "Pat" 
— Rockville  Centre,  N. 
Y.   Crew,  Basket  Ball. 


Doris       Rogers,  Lynn, 

Mass.         Glee  Club, 

Dramatics,  Crew, 
"Leaves"   staff. 


Margaret   Perley — "Peg" 
— Lowell,  Mass. 


Helen  Sanborn,  Spring- 
vale,  Me.  President 
Maine  Club. 


Lois  Perry,  Ft.  Fairfield, 
Me. 


Genevieve  S  h  i  d  1  e  r  — 
"Jen"  —  South  Bend, 
Ind.     Crew. 


Helen  Prince,  Madison, 
Me.  Glee  Club,  Or- 
phean. 


Dorothy  Sprague  — 
"Dot"  —  Wollaston, 
Mass.  Glee  Club,  Or- 
phean, Capt.  2nd 
Crew,  Dramatics. 


Julia  Rankin — "Judy" — 
Woonsocket,  R.  I.  Glee 
Club,  Orphean. 


Elizabeth  Stevens  — 
"Betty"  —  Rumford, 
Me. 


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Margaret  Stewart  — 
"Peg"  —  Webster, 
Mass.  Glee  Club.  Dra- 
matics. Orphean.  Sec- 
retaor  Miss.  Society, 
"Leaves"   staff. 


Maude  Tait,  Springfield. 
Mass.     Studio  Club. 


Helene        Westecvelt, 
South  Bend,  Ind. 


Doris  Whitney  —  "Wit" 
— Leominster,  Mass. 
Vice  President  Ath- 
letic Association, 
Crew,   Orphean. 


SENIOR   CAP   AND    GOWN   SONG 


As  Seniors  here  in  Caps  and  Gowns, 

We  come  this  morn  to  you. 

And  through  our  joyful  singing  here, 

Give  praise  and  honor  due. 

To  nineteen-twenty  of  Lasell, 

The  Seniors  of  Lasell, 


For  Auld  Lang  Syne,  my  dear. 

We'll  loud  your  praises  swell, 

And  here  you  see  our  cherished  pins, 

Our  lamps  of  knowledge  bright 

Which  send  their  ever  faithful  rays, 

To  show  us  what  is  right. 

Oh,  nineteen-twenty  of  Lasell ! 

True  Seniors  of  Lasell ! 

For  Auld  Lang  Syne,  my  dear, 

We'll  loud  your  praises  swell. 


KEEP  SMILIN' 


When  you  think  the  world's  against  you 

And  all  things  go  dead  wrong. 

Don't  start  the  day  a-poutin' — 

But  start  it  with  a  song. 

When  the  "Blues"  are  all  about  you 

And  everybody's  sad, 

Just  start  yourself  a-smilin' 

And  turn  the  whole  world  glad. 

The  "Blues"  will  turn  to  "Happiness," 

They  simply  cannot  stay 

If  one  just  keeps  a-smilin' 

And  a-singin'  all  the  day. 

G.  Burnet. 


THE  LITTLE  PRINCESS 


It  was  a  hot  summer  day.  The  sun  beat 
mercilessly  on  the  bright  blue  of  the  sea  and 
on  the  white  sand,  a  very  Sahara  in  its  heat 
and  emptiness.  The  artist  passed  a  weary 
hand  over  his  forehead,  as  if  to  brush  away 
the  glare  of  the  sun,  for  he  had  been  long 
at  his  painting,  and  his  usually  jolly  face  was 
tired  and  discouraged-looking.  His  was  a 
nature  that  would  never  give  up,  even  though 
he  were  melting  away,  and  his  pain's  seemed 
all  wrong. 

Suddenly  there  burst  on  his  ear  such  a 
shriek  of  rage  as  he  had  never  heard  before. 
The  sound  came  from  behind  him,  so  that  he 
had  no  idea  of  its  source.  At  that  time  he 
didn't  much  care,  as  long  as  it  didn't  con- 
cern him.  The  shrieking  continued,  and  at 
last  Stafford  made  out  a  few  words,  seeming 
to  be  punctuated  by  howls. 

"I  won't,  I  tell  you.  It's  too  hot  in  the 
first  place  and  anyway  I  won't.  I  don't  care 
if  it  is  time  for  lunch,  I  don't  want  any  old 
lunch  anyway.  Why  can't  I  go  in  swim- 
ming? No!  I'm  not  going  home.  I'll  bite 
in  a  minute  and  I'll  kick." 

Stafford  heard  the  cool  murmur  of  a  femi- 
nine voice  evidently  trying  to  placate  the 
young  rebel,  but  to  no  avail.  Shortly  he 
heard  the  howling  coming  nearer,   and    sud- 


denly he  turned  around  to  see  the  cause  of 
all  the  commotion.  A  youngster  about  eight 
years  old  was  legging  it  as  fast  as  he  could 
toward  the  artist,  while  in  pursuit  of  him  was 
a  young  lady  in  the  garb  of  "nurse  to  little 
rich  children."  The  boy  stopped  short  beside 
Stafford,  his  eye  caught  by  the  colors  on  the 
canvas,  and  his  shrieking  halted. 
■  "I  want  it,"  he  stated  imperiously,  in  the 
tone  of  one  accustomed  to  command  and  be 
obeyed. 

Stafford  said  nothing,  but  took  in  the  dimin- 
utive king  from  the  top  of  his  black  head, 
past  the  snapping  black  eyes,  down  the  white 
sailor  suit,  over  the  bare  brown  knees  to  his 
small  feet,  shod  in  white  canvas  shoes.  Not 
at  all  liking  the  scrutiny,  the  boy  stamped  his 
foot  and  reiterated: — "I  said  I  want  it.  Give 
it  to  me." 

"Want  what,  son?"  inquired  the  man. 

"The  picture,"  answered  the  boy. 

Stafford  glanced  over  his  head  and  smiled 
very  amusedly  at  the  nurse,  who  was  puffing 
and  fanning  herself  after  the  exertion  of  fol- 
lowing up  a  mutinous  sailor  over  the  hot  sand. 

"That  picture?  Why,  that's  going  to  make 
my  future  some  day.  Why  should  I  give  it 
away  before  it  has  served  its  purpose?  What's 
your  name,  son?" 

"Bobby  Burrill,  and  if  you  don't  give  me 
that    picture    I'll    tell    my    Daddy    not   to    let 


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you  paint  any  more.  He'll  do  it  too,  because 
he  knows  I'll  holler  if  he  doesn't,"  boasted 
the  lad. 

"Well,  well,  what  a  sad  state  of  affairs. 
Come  back  tomorrow  at  ten  and  I'll  let  you 
know  my  decision,"  he  replied  abruptly  and 
began  to  pack  his  paraphernalia. 

Thus  decisively  dismissed  for  the  first  time 
in  his  young  life,  the  little  tyrant  suffered 
himself  to  be  led  away,  in  a  seemingly  dazed 
state,  while  the  artist,  resolutely  set  off  in 
the  other  direction. 

Next  morning,  at  ten  sharp,  the  lad  ap- 
peared at  Stafford's  elbow  and  said,  "Well, 
do  I  get  the  picture?" 

"Huh?"  answered  the  man,  stupidly,  "why, 
I'd  forgotten  all  about  it.  Besides  the  Prin- 
cess liked  it  pretty  well  so  I  donated  it  to 
her." 

Above  the  boy's  great  astonishment  at  this 
reply  was  his  curiosity  to  know  who  the 
"Princess"  was. 

"The  Princess?  Oh,  you  can't  fool  me. 
I  learned  all  about  princesses,  and  you  haven't 
got  enough  money  to  buy  one.  I  used  to  be- 
lieve in  fairies,  but  I'm  too  old  for  that." 

"Ho,  ho!"  laughed  the  artist,  "too  old  to 
believe  in  fairies  ?  Why,  you're  never  too  old 
for  that.  The  older  you  are  the  more  you 
believe  in  them.     Say,  I  know  what  I'll  do." 

He  looked  around,  but  saw  no  nurse  in  at- 
tendance. 

"Where's  your  nurse?"  he  queried. 

"Nurse,"  scoffed  the  boy,  "do  you  think 
I'm  an  infant?  That's  the  old  governess  they 
got  to  play  games. with  me  this  summer." 

"Have  you  a  little  time  on  your  hands,  or 
did  you  run  away?" 

"Oh,  I  have  all  morning.  Dewey  was  too 
lazy  to  come  out  this  morning,  and  besides, 
she  knew  I  had  a  'pointment  with  you.  Who's 
your  Princess  ?" 

"Well,  that's  what  I  was  going  to  tell  you. 
You  see,  I  live  in  a  little  cottage  right  over 
in  the  middle  of  those  nice  green  woods.  I 
have  a  little  golden-haired  Princess  there  who 
can't  walk,  but  has  to  sit  all  day  in  a  chair. 


While  I'm  out  here  she  amuses  herself  by 
reading  or  making  believe  she  can  fly  to 
strange  places,  and  when  I  come  in  she  al- 
ways expects  me  to  bring  something  real  nice 
to  her.  Do  you  see  now  why  you  can't  have 
the  picture?" 

The  mention  of  the  picture  brought  a  pout 
to  the  boy's  lips  and  a  scowl  to  his  forehead. 

"See  here,  now,  none  of  your  tantrums.  I 
was  thinking  of  taking  you  to  see  the  Princess, 
but  I  only  take  nice  bright  things  that  will 
cheer  her  up,  and  not  dark  ones  to  make  her 
sad." 

The  boy  recognized  the  ring  of  sternness 
in  the  man's  voice,  and  quickly  changed  his 
expression  to  one  of  eagerness. 

"Take  me  to  see  her,  please,"  he  begged. 
Very  likely  this  was  the  first  time  he  had 
ever  pleaded  for  anything ;  always  before  he 
had  demanded  and  immediately  received,  so 
this  was  a  new  and  strange  experience.  The 
artist  shot  a  quick  glance  at  him  and  then 
without  a  word  packed  up  his  things  and 
started  off,  nodding  to  the  boy  to  follow. 

They  walked  for  about  ten  minutes,  both 
of  them  silent,  until  at  last  they  came  in 
sight  of  a  low  bungalow,  set  in  a  flowery 
garden.     The  artist  halted. 

"Remember,"  he  directed,  "  no  such  actions 
as  I  saw  yesterday,  or  out  you  go  and  never 
come  back  again." 

The  boy  silently  nodded  his  consent  to  this 
arrangement  and  again  they  went  on.  Upon 
entering  the  door,  the  artist  called,  "Princess, 
I've  got  a  big  surprise  for  you  this  time.  Shut 
your  eyes  and  I'll  come  right  in." 

A  gurgle  of  delight  greeted  this  announce- 
ment, and  a  soft  voice  replied, 

"All  right,  Uncle  Stan  I'm  all  ready  now." 

Signalling  the  boy  to  be  quiet,  the  man  ad- 
vanced into  a  cheery  room,  which  seemed  to 
focus  all  its  light  and  brightness  on  the  fluffy 
hair  of  a  small  girl  seated  near  one  of  the 
windows.  Her  face  was  covered  with  her 
hands  so  Bobby  couldn't  tell  what  she  looked 
like,  but  his  eyes,  caught  by  the  shining  of 
her  hair,  remained  fixed. 


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"All  right,  Princess,"  said  Stafford  as  he 
placed  the  lad  in  front  of  her.  Very  slowly 
she  removed  her  hands  from  her  face  and 
looked  up. 

"Oh,  a  real  live  boy  for  me  to  play  with," 
and  she  clapped  her  hands  in  delight.  Then 
as  he  did  not  move  she  shyly  put  out  her 
hand.     "Pleased  to  meet  you,  Mr.  Prince." 

Bobby  extended  his  hand  silently,  then  burst 
forth : 

"My  name's  not  Prince,  it's  Burrill,  Bobby 
Burrill.  But  I  know  who  you  are.  Your 
uncle  told  me  all  about  you."  This  last  tri- 
umphantly, with  such  a  strange  air  of  the 
conqueror  about  him  that  the  girl  burst  into 
ripples   of   fairy   laughter. 

"Oh,  he's  not  really  my  uncle,  but  I  call 
him  that  when  he's  hot  my  cruel  stepfather!" 

The  boy  shot  a  glance  of  concentrated  in- 
dignation toward  the  man  in  question;  to 
think  that  any  one  could  be  cruel  to  this  angel. 
The  angel  laughed  again,  and  said — 

"Oh,  there's  always  a  cruel  stepfather  in 
fairy  stories,  or  else  a  stepmother.  You  be- 
lieve in  fairies,  don't  you  ?"  she  questioned. 

The  boy  glanced  at  the  man  out  of  the  cor- 
ner of  his  eye  to  see  if  he  were  paying  at- 
tention. 

"Sure,  course  I  do,"  he  replied. 

"That's  all  right.  Maybe  you  can  be  in 
our  fairy  story.  That's  why  I  called  you  Mr. 
Prince!" 

Thus  began  a  strange  friendship  between  a 
spoiled,  motherless  rich  boy  and  an  orphaned 
cripple.  The  boy  was  greatly  changed. 
When,  once  in  a  while,  he  showed  a  tendency 
toward  his  former  tyranny,  a  glance  from 
Stafford  recalled  the  agreement  on  the  first 
day.  Always  Stafford  insisted  that  the  boy 
have  permission  from  his  governess  to  make 
his  visits,  and  the  child  knew  it  would  be  of 
no  use  to  try  to  deceive  him. 

One  day  the  lad  was  accompanied  by  a 
tall,  distinguished  looking  man,  who  looked 
so  much  like  the  youngster  that  Stafford  knew 
at  once  that  this  was  Burrill,  the  elder.  Bobby 
introduced    the    two    men,    and    then    Burrill 


laughingly  explained  that  he  was  very  curious 
about  these  daily  visits  of  his  son,  and  wished 
to  know  who  kept  him  so  interested.  Stafford 
immediately  felt  himself  drawn  to  this  man, 
who  looked  the  part  of  a  millionaire,  and 
carried  himself  as  an  athlete  and  outdoor 
man.  Princess  was  impressed  favorably  too, 
and  adopted  Bun-ill  Senior  as  abruptly  as 
she  had  the  younger.  The  man  chatted  pleas- 
antly with  the  little  girl  for  a  while, -entering 
whole-heartedly  into  her  game,  and  then  re- 
tired with  Stafford  to  a  cool  corner  of  the 
porch,  where  they  talked  at  some  length  about 
artists,  past  and  present.  Finally  Burrill 
asked,  "Is  the  little  girl  a  relative  ?" 

"None  whatever.  When  her  parents  died' 
she  was  placed  in  an  orphans'  home,  from 
which  it  is  my  pleasure  to  rescue  her  for  the 
summer  months.  Her  father  helped  me  when 
I  was  on  my  uppers,  and  I  feel  that  it  is  the 
least  I  can  do  to  give  her  a  summer  outing." 

"She  appears  a  true  American.  What  were 
her  people?" 

"True  Americans  also,  even  way  back,  as 
far  as  I  know.  They  were  never  very  well- 
to-do,  but  always  willing  to  help  someone  a 
little  worse  off  than  they  were." 

"Hm,  remarkable  family,"  stated  Burrill, 
and  started  off  on  the  subject  of  a  coming 
strike. 

Two  or  three  days  afterward  Burrill  came 
again  with  his  son,  joked  for  some  time  with 
the  little  girl,  exchanged  news  with  Stafford, 
and  just  before  leaving  casually  inquired  the 
child's  name.  On  receiving  the  answer,  he 
merely  murmured : 

"Hm,  rather  a  good  name,"  and  departed. 

He  came  a  third  time.  This  time  he  ap- 
peared to  examine  the  child  with  a  sense  of 
cataloguing  every  feature  for  future  use.  Ap- 
parently he  found  what  he  saw  favorable,  for 
during  the  usual  conversation  with  Stafford 
he  abruptly  said  : — 

"Stafford,  I  am  very  much  impressed  with 
the  child.  My  son  has  told  me  much  of  her, 
so  much  in  fact,  that  I  desired  to  find  out 
more.     Besides,  I  wanted  to  discover  who  had 


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changed  the  boy  from  a  young  devil  to  a  real 
youngster.  Bobby  has  often  expressed  the 
wish  for  someone  to  play  with.  I  have  looked 
up  the  girl's  ancestors  and  find  her  credentials 
are  of  the  best.  What  I  propose  to  do  is 
adopt  her  as  my  own,  with  your  full  consent, 
of  course.  I  understand  what  she  has  meant 
to  you,  and  you  to  her,  so  I  want  to  comply 
fully  with  both  your  and  her  wishes.  What 
do  you  say?" 

Stafford  hesitated. 

''Frankly,  Mr.  Burrill,  your  proposition 
staggers  me.  f — f  don't  hardly  know  what 
to  say.  Princess  is  a  sister  and  a  daughter 
to  me  both,  and  I  hardly  know  what  I  would 
do  without  her.  Of  course  I  realize  that  I 
can  not  take  care  of  her  the  whole  year  round, 
but  I  see  her  often,  and  she  inspires  me  to 
my  very  best." 

Burrill  was  silent  for  a  while,  and  then  said 
very  quietly : 

"I  don't  want  to  force  your  hand,  man,  but 
think  of  all  the  advantages  she  would  enjoy — 
a  specialist,  in  the  very  first  place,  who  could 
make  her  walk  again,  f  was  careful  to  find 
out  that  she  can  be  cured  with  the  proper  care 
and  a  slight  operation.  All  those  things  take 
money.  Then  she  would  have  a  good  edu- 
cation, and  travel  a  good  deal  to  broaden  her 
— not  that  she  seems  to  need  it,"  and  he 
smiled,  ''but  a  variety  of  experiences  is  good 
for  any  one." 

When  he  finally  stopped,  Stafford  looked 
at  him  for  a  few  minutes  and  then  slowly 
replied,  "Mr.  Burrill,  your  statements  are  all 
true.  It  will  break  my  heart  to  part  with 
her,  but  I  will  place  the  facts  before  her,  and 
let  her  decide  herself." 

Burrill  nodded  his  consent  to  his  arrange- 
ment, and  took  his  leave. 

When  he  came  the  next  day  'he  found  Staf- 
ford very  talkative  and  the  child  silent.  Staf- 
ford put  the  verdict  before  him,  and  said, 
"Princess  and  I  have  talked  it  all  over,  Mr. 
Burrill,  and  we've  decided  it's  best  for  you 
to  have  her." 

"But  not  'till  the  end  of  summer,  and  Uncle 


Stan  must  come  to  see  me  real  often,  or  I 
won't  promise,"  added  the  Princess  with  tears 
in  her  eyes.  "Uncle  Stan  says  it  is  best,  so 
it  must  be,  but  I  know  I'll  cry  for  a  while,  I'll 
miss  him  so." 

"Well,  Princess,  Bobby  and  I  will  try  to 
make  up  for  him,  but  of  course  we'll  expect 
to  be  a  little  different.  Bobby  says  he'll  be 
good  for  the  rest  of  his  life  if  he  can  have 
you  for  a  sister,  so  you  can  see  what  a  heavy 
job  you'll  have  on  your  hands." 

The  Princess  smiled  through  her  tears,  and 
thus  it  was  that  she  was  to  enter  a  "real 
home"  in  the  fall,  instead  of  returning  to  the 
orphanage. 

H.  Brooks. 


A   SWORD    AND    A    FAN 


How  many  strange  and  extraordinary  tales 
has  the  war  brought  to  our  knowledge !  The 
heroic,  the  pathetic,  the  spiritual,  the  super- 
natural,— all  these  have  a  place  in  the  stories 
that  have  come  to  us  from  across  the  sea. 
In  this  little  tale  of  the  Great  War  and  of 
long  ago,  told  to  an  American  officer  by  a  Bel- 
gian refugee,  there  is  a  touch  of  the  super- 
natural. No  explanation  is  given;  it  is  just 
another  of  those  inexplicable  incidents  of  the 
war  which,  to  us  who  stayed  at  home,  seem 
so  unbelievable. 

The  German  troops  were  not  the  first  armed 
forces  that  the  old  Chateau  de  Noyons  had 
known.  For  four  centuries  it  had  seen  war- 
riors come  and  go,  but  never  before  had  a 
conquering  foe  been  within  its  walls.  But 
now  a  German  regiment  was  billeted  within 
the  huge  building,  and  the  dining  hall,  where 
many  a  royal  banquet  had  been  served,  was 
the  scene  of  drunken  revelry. 

The  old  caretaker  had  shown  some  appre- 
hension when  his  captors  had  forced  him  to 
wait  upon  them  in  the  banquet  hall.  The  ex- 
tremely thick  walls  of  the  room  admitted  little 
or  no  sound,  and  indeed,  with  such  a  din 
within  the  hall,  even  the  distant  guns  could 
not  be  heard.     But  the  old  servitor  seemed  to 


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be  expecting  and  listening  for  something. 
Finally,  during  a  momentary  lull  in  the  revels, 
it  came.  The  sound  of  moaning  was  dis- 
tinctly heard  throughout  the  hall. 

"Colonel  Hauser,  why  have  you  not  re- 
moved your  prisoners  from  this  part  of  the 
castle?"  demanded  the  general. 

"Sir,  there  were  no  prisoners  taken.  The 
old  man  was  the  only  one,"  replied  the  colonel. 
The  moaning  was  heard  again,  this  time 
accompanied  by  the  clank  of  a  sword  and  the 
rustle  of  silk.  Yet  not  an  officer  in  the  hall 
was  wearing  his  sword,  and  not  a  woman  was 
within  thirty  miles.  The  sound  seemed  to 
come  from  nowhere,  yet  it  was  heard  in  every 
part  of  the  large  hall. 

The  old  man's  face  was  white,  and  the  dish 
in  his  hand  fell  crashing  to  the  floor.  How 
many  times  had  he,  and  his  father  and  grand- 
father before  him,  heard  that  sound !  These 
Germans  would  never  believe  his  story, — the 
moaning,   the   sound   of   silk   and   the   sword, 

the  legend 

"If  this  is  one  of  your  tricks "  threat- 
ened the  general. 

For  a  third  time  the  moaning  was  heard. 
"The  sound  seems  to  come  from  behind  this 
wall,"  said  one  of  the  officers.  "There  is  no 
one  in  the  adjoining  room,  and  these  walls 
are  thick  enough  to  be  sound  proof.  What !" 
as  he  tapped  it  with  his  revolver  butt,  "it 
sounds  hollow,  sir." 

"Tear  down  the  wall,"  commanded  the  gen- 
eral. 

The  soldiers,  expert  at  battering  doors, 
made  short  work  of  demolishing  the  heavy 
oaken  wall.  The  officer's  surmise  was  cor- 
rect ;  this  wall  was  not  solid.  There  was  a 
space  of  perhaps  a  yard  in  width  between  the 
outer  and  the  inner  walls.  The  dust  and  cob- 
webs of  the  years  filled  this  little  recess — 
and  on  the  floor  was  a  rusty  sword  and  an 
ivory  fan. 

When  the  Chateau  de  Noyons  was  still 
young,  .one  of  its  dukes  was  known  as  "Le 
Terrible."  He  was  indeed  terrible,  cruel  and 
unjust,  and  his  retainers  lived  in  continual 
fear  for  their  lives.     Above  all  was  he  notor- 


ious for  the  ingenious  cruelty  of  his  punish- 
ments to  any  who  incurred  his  wrath.  The 
only  being  for  whom  he  had  any  consideration 
was  his  beautiful  daughter,  Elise. 

A  time  came  when  "Le  Terrible"  left 
Noyons  for  the  wars,  and  Elise  was  sent  to 
court,  to  await  his  return.  There  she  met  and 
fell  in  love  with  a  young  nobleman,  who  was, 
unknown  to  them  both,  the  son  of  her  father's 
most  hated  enemy. 

When  the  wars  were  over,  Elise  returned 
to  Noyons ;  her  lover  followed,  to  ask  the 
father's  consent  to  the  marriage.  The  duke's 
rage  on  learning  the  identity  of  Elise's  lover 
was  without  bonds.  Elise  refused  to  give  him 
up,  and  all  the  love  and  kindness  "Le  Ter- 
rible" had  had  for  his  daughter  turned  to 
hatred. 

The  scene  took  place  in  the  banquet  hall. 
The  duke,  diabolic  in  his  anger,  stood  the 
unfortunate  lovers  up  against  the  wall,  and 
then  commanded  his  servants  to  build  another 
wall  before  them,  sealing  them  forever  in  a 
narrow  space,  scarcely  a  yard  in  width.  They 
long  ago  turned  to  dust,  but  tradition,  the 
rusty  sword  and  the  ivory  fan  remained. 

This  is  the  strange  story  told  to  an  Ameri- 
can officer  by  the  old  servitor,  a  Belgian  refu- 
gee. 

M.  Perley. 


"NAN" 

The  final  relentless  br-r-r-r-r  of  the  bell  was 
echoing  in  Eleanor's  ears  as  she  tucked  an 
extra  blanket  over  her  bed,  and  she  obediently 
walked  over  to  turn  out  the  lights  in  answer 
to  its  summons.  She  slid  thankfully  into  bed 
with  a  sigh  that  would  have  done  credit  to 
Hercules  after  his  famous  labors.  In  a  mo- 
ment Jane  came  in,  towel  and  soap-dish  in 
one  hand  and  tooth-brush  in  the  other,  grop- 
ing cautiously  to  protect  her  shins  from  lurk- 
ing chair  rockers  and  table  legs. 

"Oh,  Nan,  it's  still  snowing  outside,"  she 
said.  "I  wonder  if  I'd  better  spread  that  coat 
over  my  bed  again  to-night.  I'd  never  do  to 
be  an  Eskimo,  up  in  those  balmy  Arctic  re- 


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gions  where  the  little  breezes  play  tag  up  and 
down  your  spinal  column." 

"Jane,  you  goose,  open  that  window  and 
get  to  bed.  Anybody  would  think  it  was  zero 
to  hear  you  talk.  It  takes  a  little  snap  to 
make  you  feel  like  living." 

"I  don't  feel  like  living  anyhow  right  now. 
I  feel  like  sleeping,  and  how  a  person  can 
sleep  in  a  place  where  the  very  ink  freezes  is 
more  than  I  can  see.  Ooh,  just  feel  that 
wind !"  and  Jane  hopped  into  bed,  pulling  the 
covers  up  with  such  a  jerk  that  they  came 
loose  at  the  foot.  "Now  see  what  I've  gone 
and  done,"  disgustedly,  as  she  executed 
strange  contortions  to  fix  them  again.  "I 
guess  there  won't  be  any  gale  like  this  blow- 
ing through  here  for  a  few  days  now  until 
you  get  back." 

"Jane,  I  know  I  shall  never  get  to  sleep 
to-night.  I'm  so  excited  I  shan't  be  able  to 
close  my  eyes." 

"And  you've  never  been  to  Dartmouth  Car- 
nival !  No  wonder  you're  excited,"  said  Jane 
with  rather  sleepy  enthusiasm  as  she  settled 
into  a  comfortable  position. 

"To-morrow  morning  is  never  going  to 
come.  Why,  the  time  is  simply  crawling 
along.  I  wish  I  could  just  drop  off  to  sleep 
like  you  do,  old  dear." 

"Urn,"  faintly  sounded  from  the  depths  of 
the  bedclothes. 

Ensuing  silence  disclosed  only  the  patient 
gnawing  of  a  mouse  in  the  wall. 

It  was  a  little  house  on  a  side  street,  and 
the  room  was  filled,  with  draughts  against 
which  the  pudgy  little  stove  struggled  in  vain. 
A  woman  lay  in  bed  with  the  covers  drawn 
lip  closely  to  a  face  whose  natural  sweetness 
was  twisted  into  lines  of  care  and  pain.  A 
young  girl  rushed  into  the  room,  waving  a 
letter,  and  the  woman's  face  lighted  with  ex- 
pectancy. 

"A  letter   from  Tom,   mother  dearest,  and 
we'll    read    it    together.     It    just    can't    help 
making    you    feel    better    to    hear    from    our 
Tommie.     She  began, — 
"Dearest  Sis : 

"I'm  just   snatching  a  minute   to  write  to 


you  and  tell  you  about  something.  You've 
heard  me  talk  about  the  Winter  Carnival  up 
here — all  the  wonderful  dancing,  coasting,  and 
skiing,  and  every  fellow  with  a  girl  tucked 
under  his  arm,  till  it  seems  like  fairyland. 
Now,  here's  the  news.  I've  been  working 
extra  and.  have  saved  enough  money  for  you 
to  have  a  new  dress  and  come  up  to  be  with 
me  for  the  Carnival.  Just  think  of  it,  Nan 
dear,  what  a  time  we'll  have !  I  must  run  to 
class  now,  but  you'll  understand  how  very 
much  I  want  you  to  come. 

Your  own  brother, 

Tom." 
"Oh,  mother,  isn't  that  the  most  wonderful 
thing  that  ever  happened?  A  new  dress  to 
dance  in,  and  I'll  be  as  pretty  as  all  the  other 
girls  !     Isn't  it  won " 

A  violent  fit  of  coughing  had  seized  the 
woman  on  the  bed  and  Eleanor  checked  the 
exultant  flow  of  words  on  her  lips.  As  the 
racking  cough  continued,  her  face  grew  seri- 
ous and  a  worried  expression  took  the  place 
of  the  joy. 

"Mother  you  must  have  a  doctor  at  once," 
she  cried. 

She  put  on  her  thin  little  sweater  and  ran 
out  of  the  house  and  down  the  street.  When 
she  came  back  she  brought  with  her  a  tall 
man  whose  black  case  betrayed  his  calling. 

He  examined  the  woman  thoroughly  and 
asked  her  many  questions.  Then  he  turned 
to  Nan  and  said,  "Dear  child,  your  mother 
is  in  the  first  stages  of  pneumonia.  Unless 
she-  is  given  proper  care  and  food,  I'm  afraid 
her  life  is  in  danger.  If  she  can  be  taken 
at  once  to  the  hospital  she  will  come  through 
it  nicely,  because  there  she  can  have  experi- 
enced attention." 

Poor  Nan  suddenly  saw  the  swift  fading 
away  of  her  rosy  dreams.  She  swallowed 
hard  for  a  moment,  then  she  held  out  the 
money  her  brother  had  sent  her.  "Will  this 
be  enough?"  she  said. 

The  doctor  looked  at  the  room  and  then  at 
the  bills  she  held  out  to  him.  Even  with  the 
amount  for  the  precious  dress  included,  it  was 
far  too  little  to  cover  what  such  an  expense 


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would  be,  but  he  said  simply,  "It  is  enough, 
child.  I  shall  see  to  moving  her  immediately 
and  I  leave  you  to  get  her  ready." 

Eleanor,  capable  young  person  that  she 
was,  busied  herself  immediately  about  her 
loving  task,  and  soon  her  mother  was  safely 
installed  in  her  new  warm  bed. 

When  Nan  was  alone  again,  she  put  her 
head  down  on  her  arms  and  cried  it  out.  To 
have  had  the  golden  opportunity  snatched 
from  her  very  hand.  Had  she  ever  in  all  her 
life  wanted  anything  so  much  as  to  go  to  the 
Carnival  ? 

The  scene  changed. 

Moving  easily  over  the  smooth  ice,  graceful 
as  a  reed  in  the  wind,  she  glided,  but  her  eyes 
were  fixed  unseeingly  on  the  horizon. 

Whistling  merrily,  hands  in  pockets,  he 
skated  along — but  his  thoughts  were  else- 
where. 

Click  !  Snap  !  Crash  !  Each  saw  the  other 
too  late  and  down  they  went  in  an  undignified 
tangle  on  the  ice.  He  extricated  himself  and 
helped  her  to  her  feet,  meanwhile  taking  note 
of  her  appearance.  She  was  rather  tall  and 
slim,  with  dark  curling  hair  which  showed  be- 
neath her  red  tarn.  He  saw  that  her  shoes 
were  badly  worn  and  that  the  poor  little 
sweater  was  far  too  thin  to  keep  out  the  cold. 

"I'm  sorry  to  have  been  so  awkward,"  she 
said.     "I " 

"It  was  quite  my  fault,"  he  interrupted.  "I 
was  sailing  along,  not  paying  any  attention  to 
where  I  was  going.  I'm  just  awfully  sorry 
to  have  caused  all  this.     You're  all  right?" 

"Oh,  quite.  A  little  tumble  is  all  in  the 
day's  work."  By  this  time  she  had  discovered 
that  he  was  a  very  nice-looking  young  fellow 
indeed  in  his  puttees,  khaki  trousers  and  white 
sweater. 

"Would  you  care  to  skate  double?"  he 
asked,  noticing  meanwhile  her  lovely  color 
and  her  sparkling  eyes. 

"Why — why,  yes,  thank  you." 

They  glided  along  easily  for  a  moment  be- 
fore either  spoke,  her  red  ungloved  hands 
clasped  comfortably  in  his. 

"My  name  is  Jack  Warner,"  he  said. 


"And  mine  is  Eleanor  Sullivan." 

"Sullivan,  Sullivan?  Do  you  happen  to 
have  any  brothers  ?" 

Her  sunny  face  became  sober  at  once  and 
she  was  quiet  for  a  moment  before  she  an- 
swered, "I  had  the  dearest  brother  in  all  the 
world,  but  Tom  was  killed  in  France  just 
before  the  armistice  was  signed.  See  this." 
And  from  beneath  her  sweater  she  pulled  out 
a  Croix  de  Guerre,  with  one  gold  star.  "He 
always — but  why  do  you  ask?" 

"Was  he  at  Dartmouth  before  he  enlisted?" 
asked  the  young  fellow. 

"Yes,  for  two  years.  Don't  tell  me  you 
knew  him." 

"We  were  together  in  France  for  over  a 
year.  He  was  the  best  pal  a  fellow  ever  had. 
You  do  look  rather  like  him." 

"But  tell  me,  how  do  you  happen  to  be 
here  ?" 

"I  am  at  Dartmouth  this  year,"  he  an- 
swered, "and  am  visiting  my  room-mate  over 
the  holidays.  But  how  strange  that  I  should 
-  meet  you  in  this  way — the  world's  a  small 
place  after  all." 

On  and  on  they  skated,  speaking  often  of 
Tom,  and  of  the  experiences  of  both  over- 
seas. When  they  had  parted  it  was  with  ar- 
rangements made  for  another  skate  together 
next  day.  Getting  better  acquainted,  they 
continued  meeting  each  day  of  the  vacation, 
and  before  he  left  Jack  realized  that  he  was 
beginning  to  think  a,  great  deal  of  Nan. 

On  the  last  night,  he  looked  at  her  a  little 
embarrassedly  and  said,  "Nan,  can  you  come 
up  to  the  Carnival  next  month — will  you 
come?" 

"Oh  Jack,"  she  cried,  "there's  nothing  on 
earth  that  could  please  me  more.  Do  you 
truly  mean  it  ?" 

"Of  course  I  do,  Nan.  I  want  you  to  as 
hard  as  ever  I've  wanted  anything.  Will  you 
say  yes?" 

"I  sure  will,"  she  answered.  "It's  simply 
great  of  you  to  want  me." 

And  when  he  had  left,  she  sat  up  half  the 
night  planning  ways  and  means. 

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The  best  of  luck  to  the  new  Leaves  staff ! 
May  their  year  be  one  filled  with  interest  and 
success !  A  great  deal  depends  upon  the  sup- 
port given  by  the  whole  school.  So  if  you 
are  not  literally  a  member  of  the  staff,  con- 
sider yourself  such,  and  show  all  the  enthu- 
siasm possible  in  making  our  paper  the  best 
possible,  the  one  of  which  every  Lasell  girl 
should  be  proud. 

The  retiring  editors  wish  to  thank  everyone 
for  the  co-operation  and  fine  work  of  the  past 
year.  We  are  especially  grateful  to  those  who 
have  so  faithfully  tried  to  bring  to  the  paper 
success  and  high  standing. 

Spring  is  coming !  How  glad  we  are  to 
welcome  it ;  to  feel  its  very  presence  round 
about  us  is  like  awakening  from  a  long  weary 
slumber  to  find  the  sun  shining  in  our  eyes 
bidding  us  arise.  But.  with  spring  comes 
that  old  dreaded  habit,  practiced  by  many  of 
us,  of  putting  off,  letting  things  pass  by  un- 
finished. One  has  a  tendency  to  arrive  at  the 
"I  don't  care,"  or  "I  meant  to"  stage  and  we 
blame  it  on  "Spring  Fever."  Can't  we  by 
wakening  a  new  enthusiasm  and  by  rousing 
a  greater  amount  of  responsibility,  give  a  new 
meaning  to  the  so-called  "Spring  Fever?" 

The  days  and  weeks  are  flying.  Let's  not 
count  them,  waiting  for  and  thinking  only,  of 
the  vacation  time.  Make  the  most  of  even- 
single  moment.  Do  not  fall  into  the  old 
slouchy  habit,  but  keep  up  the  school  spirit, 
the  enthusiasm,  the  responsibility.  Let's 
crowd  our  spring  term  full  of  worth-while 
accomplishments.     Thus  we  shall  give  a  new 


and    much    improved    meaning    to    the    term 
known  to  all  of  us  as  "Spring  Fever." 


PROSPECTUS 


This  season  promises  to  be  one  of  the  most 
interesting,  if  not  the  greatest  in  the  history 
of  Lasell  games  and  sports.  The  things  re- 
corded in  the  "Allerleis"  of  the  past,  hold 
no  comparison  with  the  doings  that  are  afoot 
now.  The  innovations  will  probably  be  a 
Gym  Drill,  a  Field  Day  and  some  baseball. 

CREW 

Practice  will  begin  as  soon  as  we  can  get 
out  on  the  river,  which  will  doubtless  be  right 
after  Easter.  Mr.  Ordway  states  that  the 
main  crews  of  last  year  will  not  start  out  to- 
gether but  will  mix  with  the  new  and  green 
paddlers  and  so  give  all  an  equal  chance  to 
show  what  they  are  worth. 

With  such  fine  prospects  for  first-rate  crews 
from  every  class,  the  enthusiasm  is  pitched 
unusually  high  for  so  early  in  the  season. 
The  Monday  after  May  Day  is  River  Day. 
Oh  day  of  history !  when  a  name,  Freshman, 
Sophomore,  Junior,  Senior, — who  knows,  or 
can  guess  which? — will  be  written  in  the  Book 
of  Fame.  Surely  the  River  Day  of  '20  ought 
to  surpass  any  of  the  past  in  its  spirit  and 
success  and  every  class  must  feel  honor-bound 
to  die  if  necessary  but  to  win  if  possible. 

FIELD  DAY 

Field  Day  is  scheduled  for  the  middle  of 
May  and  among  the  events  planned  are:     100 


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also  SO  yd.  dashes,  hop-skip-and-jump,  run- 
ning broad  jump,  standing  broad  jump,  run- 
ning high  jump,  shot-put,  hurdling,  basket  ball 
and  probably  baseball  throw  and  relays.  Each 
person  may  enter  four  events.  The  competi- 
tion will  be  interclass  and  the  member  of  each 
class  winning  the  most  points  will  receive  an 
L.  The  class  winning  the  most  points  will  get 
the  Lasell  Track  Cup.  With  such  a  variety 
of  events,  the  entries  should  be  many  and  the 
competition  strong.  The  meet  will  probably 
be  staged,  as  usual,  at  the  Riverside  Ball  Field. 

BASE  BALL 

If  there  is  anything  in  a  name,  we  certainly 
ought  to  have  some  dazzling  and  rapid  work 
from  our  illustrious  baseball  teams,  the  Fliers 
and  the  Sparks !  The  plan  is  that  the  winner 
of  two  out  of  three  games  shall  be  the  title 
holder,  the  final  game  being  played  on  Field 
Day. 

GYM 

Beginning  about  the  middle  of  '  April,  the 
indoor  gym  work  will  be  replaced  by  tennis, 
crewing,  walking,  practice  for  field  day  events, 
or  baseball,  whichever  you  may  choose  to  do. 
Dancing,  however,  will  continue  in  the  form 
of  May  Day  practice. 

MAY  DAY 

"I  can  hardly  wait  for  May  Day,"  said 
Miss  Woodward  the  other  day.  Well,  if  Miss 
Woodward  feels  that  way  about  a  thing,  it  is 
a  good  idea  to  sit  up  and  take  notice  and  watch 
things  whirl  to  a  harmonious  and  beautiful 
finis  on  May  30. 

TENNIS 

Entries-  for  the  tennis  tournament  will  be 
made  the  first  week  in  May.  The  second 
week,  weather  permitting  of  course,  the  first 
of  the  games  will  be  played  off.  The  third 
week  will  mark  the  semi-finals,  and  the  fourth 
— if  not  sooner — the  finals.  A  cup  is  awarded 
the   champion. 

SWIMMING 

Mrs.  Smith  has  charge  of  the  arrangement 
of  the  swimming  meet  which  will  be  held  the 
last   of   May.     As  usual   she  will   divide  the 


contestants  into  groups  A,  B,  and  C,  respec- 
tively as  she  rates  their  ability  high,  medium 
or  low.  The  C's  are  usually  beginners,  the 
B's  neither  good  nor  poor  and  the  A's,  "good." 
The  events  are,  dive,  25-yd.  dash,  and  plunge ; 
a  cup  is  given  to  the  winner  of  the  most  in 
each  division. 

THE  A.  A. 

The  Athletic  Association  is  one  of  the  best 
known  clubs  in  the  school.  It  was  organized 
in  October  1906  and  has  been  steadily  ad- 
vancing ever  since  that  time.  Its  object  is  to 
encourage  every  form  of  athletics  and  to  in- 
crease the  school  spirit.  Only  members  of  the 
association  can  enter  the  Canoe  Club,  the 
basket  ball  competitions,  the  swimming  meet, 
tennis  tournament,  track  meet,  baseball  or  any 
other  field  event.  With  membership  dues,  the 
Club  awards  prizes  to  the  winners  in  all  the 
sports  of  the  year.  This  season  the  enroll- 
ment has  been  much  larger  than  in  former 
years  and  although  it  is  not  so  large  as  it 
should  be,  we  have  reason  to  hope  that  every- 
one who  has  so  far  neglected  to  become  a 
member  will  do  so  before  June  and  so  help 
us  to  approach  very  near  100  per  cent.  We 
hope,  too,  that  each  coming  year  will  show  a 
decided  increase  not  only  in  membership  but 
also  in  enthusiasm  and  useful  activity. 


On  Sunday  evening,  February  22,  vespers 
were  led  by  Dr.  Lichtlighter,  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Newtonville.  He 
read  the  story  of  Zaccheus  and  then  spoke  of 
the  three  points  of  view  from  which  one  may 
study  the  idealism  of  Jesus ;  first,  from  the 
tree-tops  ;  secondly,  from  the  dusty  highway  ; 
and  lastly,  by  the  hearth.  He  said  that  it  was 
better  to  see  Christ  from  the  dusty  highway 
than  from  the  tree-tops,  but  the  best  place  of 
all  to  meet  Him  was  in  one's  own  home  where 
Zaccheus,  too,  had  his  biggest  vision.  He  pre- 
sented these  three  view-points  in  an  unusually 
helpful  manner.  He  then  referred  to  Lent 
and  its  significance.  He  told  us  that  we  should 
have  a  higher  and  closer  relationship  with 
God  at  this  time.  Thus  Lent  would  mean 
much  more  than  just  the  giving  up  of  a  few 
petty  things.  The  entire  service  was  im- 
pressive and  appropriate. 

Christian  Endeavor  on  Jan.  23  was  led  by 
Muriel  James.  She  read  a  selection  from  Dr. 
Robert  Spear  on  "Christ's  Idea  of  a  Woman." 
This  was  to  be  true,  to  be  faithful,  to  be  help- 
ful, to  be  gentle  in  speech.  In  closing  she 
urged  us  to  live  up  to  ideals  and  to  be  friendly 
every  day.  During  the  service  Katherine  Rice 
and  Helen  Balcom  sang  very  pleasingly. 

Dr.  Alden  Clark  spoke  on  Sunday  afternoon, 
Jan.  25.     He  took  for  his  subject  his  experi- 


ences in  India  and  the  fascination  of  the  work 
and  life  of  a  foreign  missionary  in  that  land. 
One  word  that  he  applied  to  the  work  of 
foreign  missionaries  was  sheer  "fun."  Dr. 
Clark  spoke  of  four  fascinations  for  a  mis- 
sionary going  to  a  foreign  land  and  these 
were :  the  fascination  of  the  Orient  and  its 
freedom  of  life;  the  fascination  of  intellectual 
contrasts ;  the  fascination  of  being  wanted ; 
and  the  fascination  of  making  friendships. 
He  showed  that  the  two  problems  which  are 
before  the  world  to-day  are  those  of  class  ad- 
justments in  America  and  in  every  land  and 
of  international  adjustment.  In  closing  Dr. 
Clark  left  this  suggestion :  "The  road  on 
which  to  travel  is  the  road  to  sacrificial  ser- 
vice, where  one  gives  up  everything  in  order 
to  do  good." 

On  Sunday  evening,  Feb.  1,  we  had  the 
pleasure,  which  we  all  enjoy  so  much,  of  hear- 
ing The  Rev.  Brewer  Eddy  speak  in  the  Con- 
gregational church.  His  intensely  interesting 
topic  was  "America's  Yes  or  No  to  the  World's 
Problem."  Although  America  has  said  noth- 
ing yet,  Mr.  Eddy  made  it  clear  how  vitally 
important  it  is  that  America  should  say,  "Yes"  ; 
for  he  proved  to  us  the  eagerness  with  which 
suffering  countries  of  to-day  look  to  America 
for  help. 

Christian  Endeavor  on  Feb.  6  was  led  by 


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Dorothy  Lewis.  Her  subject  was,  "Can  we 
make  goodness  interesting?"  She  told  us  ..not 
to  be  martyrs  but  to  do  something  to  help  some 
one  and  to  have  a  good  conscience.  Thus 
everything  will  be  interesting.  Helen  Conger 
added  to  the  service  by  her  singing. 

Feb.  19.  Miss  Packard,  our  registrar,  gave 
a  clear  talk  on  Hozv  to  Study.  If  we  follow 
her  suggestions  as  to  concentration,  we  ought 
surely  to  get  on  the  extra-credit  list  before  the 
year  is  over. 

February  21  came  the  Washington  Birth- 
day Party.  The  dining-rooms  were  very  fes- 
tive in  their  decorations  of  red,  white  and 
blue.  The  costumes  took  us  back  in  fancy 
to  revolutionary  days,  for  nearly  every  one 
had  taken  pains  to  dress  in  old-fashioned 
style.  The  chef  deserved  the  vote  of  thanks 
suggested  by  Miss  Potter,  for  he  had  prepared 
a  scrumptious  dinner.  George  Washington's 
cherry-tree  proved  delicious  to  the  palate  and 
everything  else  was  well-prepared.  , 

The  dance  was  held  at  Woodland  Park, 
where  again  the  scene  was  a  picturesque  one, 
Priscilla  Winslow,  in  a  quaint  costume  of  the 
period,  was  the  most  fascinating  figure  as  she 
took  her  part  in  the  grand  march.  Miss 
Woodward  had  trained  some  handsome 
couples  to  give  the  stately  minuet.  After 
that,  general  dancing  was  enjoyed  by  those 
who  did  not  care  merely  to  gaze  at  the  gor- 
geous company. 

The  mid-winter  concert  on  February  25  was 
one  of  the  best  ever  given  at  Lasell.  The 
program  was  varied  and  delightful,  showing 
work  done  with  the  organ,  the  violin,  the 
piano  and.  the  voice.  There  was  no  evidence 
of  nervousness  or  lack  of  preparation  for 
the  ordeal.  The  applause,  so  heartily  given  by 
the  hearers,  was  an  evidence  of  their  pleasure 
in  each  performer's  part,  The  program  fol- 
lows : 

PIANOFORTE.     Prelude   in    C   minor       Whelpley 

Miss   Hayden 
VIOLIN.     Reve   Angelique  Rubinstein 

Miss  Helen  Brooks 

VOICE.     Love   Sour  Brahms 

Miss   Bodwell 


PIANOFORTE.     Shepherds  All  and  Maidens 

Fair  Nevin 

Miss   Grant 
ORGAN.     Toccata  Dunham 

Miss  Ruth  A.  Smith 
VOICE.     On  Wings  of  Song  Mendelssohn 

Miss  McFarland 
PIANOFORTE.     Polonaise  in   E   minor 

MacDowell 
Miss   Harrington 
VOICE.     Serenade  Schubert 

Miss  Shove 
PIANOFORTE.     Norwegian    Bridal    Procession 

Grieg 
Miss    Brekke 
VOICE.     An  Irish  Folk  Song  Foote 

Miss  Rice 
PIANOFORTE.     Of  Br'er  Rabbit       MacDowell 

Miss   Shidler 
VOICE.     Intermezzo  Schumann 

In  May  Schumann 

In  My  Garden  Schumann 

Miss   Balcom 
VIOLIN.     Andante  Cantabile  arr.  F.  Lamb 

(From  the  Quartet,  Op.  11) 
Miss   Ruth  Johnson 
PIANOFORTE   QUARTET.     Ungarische 

Dance  Brahms 

Misses   AIoss,   Crawford,   Schweitzer   and   Ladd 


WHITE   MOUNTAIN  TRIP 


Friday,  the  thirteenth,  proved  a  day  of  good 
omen  for  the  White  Mountain  trip.  Eighty- 
two  were  on  hand  for  breakfast  at  6.45  and 
for  the  early  train  from  the  North  Station. 
Mr.  Bassett  met  us  at  Haverhill  where  we 
were  served  coffee  and  pastry  to  stay  our 
hunger  until  we  should  arrive  at  our  destina- 
tion. The  train  was  an  hour  late  but  it  did 
not   dampen   the   spirits   of   the   party.      Soon 


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25. 


after  lunch  everyone,  dressed  in  appropriate 
clothes,  was  out  in  the  snow,  tobogganing, 
skiing,  snowshoeing  or  merely  tumbling 
around  enjoying  the  freedom  of  the  open 
life. 

Saturday  was  devoted  to  out-door  sports. 
An  excursion  to  Crawford  Notch  having 
been  planned,  we  had  a  marvelous  trip  by 
train  through  the  heart  of  the  mountains  to 
the  Crawford  station.  Here  coffee,  dough- 
nuts and  sandwiches  were  served.  Then  we 
were  divided  into  three  groups ;  those  who 
snow-shoed ;  those  who  walked  the  tracks ; 
and  those  who  waited  for  the  train.  The  three 
parties  met  again  at  the  Willey  House  and 
arrived  at  Intervale  on  the  train  an  hour  later, 
dead-tired  but  enthusiastic.  On  Sunday  as 
there  were  no  special  plans,  we  followed  our 
own  inclinations  throughout  the  day.  After 
supper  there  was  a  pleasant  song  service  and 
an  interesting  talk  by  Mr.  Towne.  Monday 
we  were  roused  from  our  slumbers  at  five- 
thirty  to  get  the  seven  o'clock  train  which, 
however,  did  not  come  into  sight  until  ten. 
But  no  one  had  any  complaints  to  make  even 
at  this  inconvenience,  for  all  had  found  the 
experience  at  the  mountains  a  thoroughly 
happy  one. 


party,  proved  themselves  resourceful  and  en- 
thusiastic throughout  the  trip. 

DINNER 

Hotel  Crushitis  in  the  Towne  of  Bassett 

Campbells'  Rice  a  la  Doane  Soup  Vanced 

Greenes  Pickle  Beiermeisterillt 

Filed  Crawfish  Planked  with  Abrams 

O'Brien  Potatoes  avec  Bodwell 
Boiled  Leg  of  Perkins,  Popular   Sauce 
Fontaine  Italian 

Balcom — Droege  Fritters  with   Pape   Sauce 

Roast  Stuffed  Crane  with  Nobody  Sauce 

Crushed  Westervelt — Shove   Potatoes,   Eaton   Gravy 

Boiled  Potatoes 
Squashed  Sprague  a  la  Belle  Isle 

Simmered  Gifford  Hurlej'  Beans 
James    Loomis    Pied  Washington    Pie 

Balch  Ely  Glace 
Browned  Cakes,  Assorted        Cookies,  Moores  Sugar 
Fluffy  Maddons 

Buttered  Grimes  Crackers  Russeled 
American   Brekke 
Lindsee  Tommy  Tasse  Cole  Coffee 

Sunday,  February  IS 


MRS.    HALE'S    LECTURE 


Edith  Vance  came  on  specially  for  the  oc- 
casion and  was  as  full  of  fun  as  ever.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Towne.  who  were  in  charge  of  the 


On  Tuesday  afternoon,  February  27,  we 
had  an  opportunity  to  hear  Mrs.  Beatrice 
Forbes-Robertson  Hale  speak  at  the  Congre- 
gational Church.  Mrs.  Hale,  who  has  just 
returned  from  England,  gave  us  an  account 
of  the  reconstruction  work  being  done  there. 

Reconstruction  work  has  been  divided  into 
three  parts :  matters  of  housing  and  land ; 
matters  of  education ;  matters  of  labor.  The 
government  encourages  building  to  the  extent 
of  giving  land  to  co-operative  societies.  Build- 
ing is  going  on  in  spite  of  the  high  cost  of 
materials.      In    the    country   they    are    taking 


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land  formerly  used  for  sports  and  are  cutting 
it  up  into  farms.  In  the  school-buildings  and 
in  the  homes  the  Government  is  setting  a  bet- 
ter standard.  The  second  problem  of  recon- 
struction is  in  regard  to  education.  In  1918 
there  was  introduced  an  educational  reform 
bill.  Children  from  fourteen  to  eighteen  years 
of  age  now  have  to  go  to  school  eight  hours 
a  week.  Reconstruction  is  also  going  on  in 
regard  to  labor  questions.  Mrs.  Hale  told  us 
that  there  would  be  no  revolution  in  England 
or  here  because  the  laboring  men  know  that 
it  will  be  their  own  people  who  will  first 
perish.  During  her  travels  she  found  that 
labor  unrest  was  due  not  to  financial  reasons 
but  to  spiritual.  The  secret  of  labor  unrest 
is  that  the  people  are  bored.  In  England,  the 
principal  trades  have  joined  a  Joint  Indus- 
trial Council.  Over  ninety  per  cent  of  dis- 
putes there  have  been  settled  in  the  individual 
shop. 

In  closing  Mrs.  Hale  told  us  that  in  these 
great  problems,  our  part  is  not  inconsiderable, 
for  we  should  have  a  share  in  this  recon- 
struction period. 

Christian  Endeavor  on  February  27  was 
led  by  Helen  Louis,  who  took  for  her  subject 
"Happiness."  She  told  us  that  this  could  be 
found  in  service,  in  responsibility  and  in  self 
forgetfulness.  Marion  Bodwell  helped  by  her 
singing. 

The  vesper  service  on  February  29,  was 
led  by  Dr.  Butters.  His  talk  was  about  being 
a  blessing  in  this  world.  One  may  not  be  in- 
tellectual or  musical  or  have  other  accom- 
plishments but  one  can  be  a  help.  Dr.  Butters 
told  us  that  the  surest  method  to  be  a  bless- 
ing is  to  go  out  of  our  way  to  do  something 
that  taxes  us  to  the  utmost. 


WOODLAND    PARK    NOTES 


The  fine  portrait  of  Lincoln  which  hangs 
in  our  Assembly  Room  was  a  special  inspira- 
tion on,  February  12th.  A  few  guests  were 
with    us    for    our    simple    Lincoln    exercises. 


After  a  short  program  from  pupils  of  the 
school,  Mr.  Towne  spoke  to  us  at  some 
length  on  the  inspiration  of  Lincoln's  life. 

Ines  Cabrera  and  Eleanor  Faxon  assisted 
Miss  Norton  in  entertaining  at  our  Valentine 
party  and  gave  us  a  very  jolly  evening  to- 
gether. 

On  Thursday  afternoon,  February  19th, 
Miss  Bunting,  Esther  Curtis,  Erna  Schmidt 
and  Gwendolyn  McDonald  attended  the 
Maier-Pattison  Recital  for  two  pianos  in  Jor- 
'dan  Hall.  The  recital  was  especially  for 
children  and  was  made  very  entertaining  as 
well  as  instructive. 

Dr.  Winslow  was  our  guest  at  our  Chapel 
Exercises  on  the  morning  of  February  23rd. 
After  a  short  sketch  of  Washington's  life  and 
a  program  in  celebration  of  our  First  Presi- 
dent's birthday,  Dr.  Winslow  spoke  to  us 
leaving  with  us  many  helpful  thoughts  from 
the  life  of  the  man  who  filled  so  well  the  place 
to  which  his  country  called  him  and  who  faced 
every  issue  with  simplicity  and  courage. 

Fourteen  of  our  music  pupils  chaperoned 
by  Miss  Bunting  and  Miss  Raymond  attended 
the  Children's  Symphony  on  Thursday  after- 
noon, February  26th. 

We  were  very  happy  to  have  Miss  Potter 
with  us  for  Chapel  Exercise  one  morning  in 
February.  Miss  Potter  was  her  inimitable 
self  in  her  talk  to  our  girls. 

We  are  again  indebted  to  Mrs.  G.  M.  Win- 
slow    for   a  helpful   talk.     When   Mrs.   Win- 


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slow  graciously  accepted  the  Key  of  our  school 
last  year  and  so  became  our  Honor  Member, 
she  took  away  with  her  the  Key  of  our  hearts 
and  has  it  still  in  her  keeping. 

Teacher — (explaining  mechanical  device  to 
3rd  grade)  :    "Do  you  know  what  a  lever  is?" 

Donald — "French  word  for  'book.'  " 


NEW    YORK    ALUMNAE    REUNION 


It  takes  more  than  blizzard  and  zero  minus 
to  chill  the  enthusiasm  of  Lasell  girls.  The 
New  York  Reunion  the  31st  of  January  came 
on  one  of  the  coldest  days  of  this  stormy  win- 
ter. Nevertheless  there  was  present  at  the 
Hotel  Plaza  one  of  the  largest,  most  enthu- 
siastic, and  appreciative  gatherings  of  recent 
years.  Pres.  Mercy  Sinsabaugh  Ingalls  '87 
as  usual  did  her  part  well,  and  the  success  of 
the  reunion  was  largely  due  to  her  able  com- 
mandeering. 

The  special  guest  of  honor  was  Dr.  Guy  M. 
Winslow,  Lasell's  Principal,  who  came  all  the 
way  to  New  York  to  bring  the  latest  news 
from  the  school,  and  it  was  indeed  good  news. 
Lasell  has  now  two  hundred  ninety-six  stu- 
dents in  the  school  proper,  and  over  fifty  in 
the  Junior  Woodland  Park  School.  Dr.  Wins- 
low  referred  to  the  splendid  outlook  for  next 
year.  On  account  of  the  high  cost  of  living 
the  administration  is  forced  to  increase  the 
cost  of  tuition,  but  in  these  days  when  the 
world  demands  efficiency,  men  seem  quite  will- 
"ing  to  pay  the  price. 

Mrs.  Call,  sister-in-law  of  Annie  Payson 
Call,  was  among  the  speakers. 

The  call  for  the  members  of  '89  and  their 
associates  brought  to  their  feet  some  six 
worthy  representatives,  one  of  the  number 
coming  all  the  way  from  Iowa  in  order  to 
be  present. 

Girls  gathered  from  the  distant  cities,  sev- 
eral coming  from  Philadelphia,  and  not  a  few 
journeying  from  the  extreme  borders  of  the 
big  Empire  State  in  order  to  be  present.     All 


agreed  that  it  was  the  most  successful  reunion 
which  had  occurred  in  several  years. 

The  following  is  the  list  of  the  newly  elected 
officers  and  the  guests  who  attended : 

President,  Mrs.  Frances  Barbour  Sonntag  '89 

Vice  President,   Mrs.  Mabel  Bliss  Tibbetts 

Sec.   and    Treasurer,    Mrs.   Mildred   Hall   Leber   '12 

Those  present  were : 

Dr.   Guy  Winslow 
M.  Alice  Fuller 
Cornelia  De  Groff  Talbot 
Annie  Morton  Gwinnell  '88 
Grace   Garland   Etherington 
Mary  Marshall   Call 
Mabel  Bliss   Tibbetts 
Mercy   Sinsabaugh   Ingalls   '87 
Frances  Barbour  Sonntag  '89 
Elizabeth  Harwood  Fones   '89 
Winnie   Ewing   Coffin   '89 
Ruby  Blaisdell  Carter 
Grace  Clark  Huntington  '89 
Carrie  Brown   Cassell  '89 
Susan  Hallock  Couch 
Helen  White  Fogg  '88 
Maude  Oliver  Harding  '89 
Anna  Jones  Bourne  '88 
Winifred  Adams  Hamilton 
Mary  Bigelow  Green 
Hannah   Proctor  Bonner 
Julia  ter  Kuile  '10 
Mabel  Loverin 
Birdie  M.   Lipschuetz 
Katharine  G.  Bingaman  '14 
Charlotte  Swartwout  '14 
Hannah  Bingaman  '14 
Mildred  Hall  Leber  '12 
Annie  Merrill  David  '12 
Juliette  Beach  Barker  '13 
Elsie  Doleman  '14 
Dorothy  Payne  Whiteway  '14 
Florence  Sundh 
Edith  Howe  Kip 
Lucy  M.  Young 
Esther   Underwood   '14 
Frances  L.  Johnsen  'IS 
Dorothy  Asbury 
Eva  Ferris  Foote 
Elsie   Clark   Moore 
Ella  Cotton  Magee  '00 
Frances  Rosenberg  '16 
Jessie  C.  Shepherd  '17 
Marion  Beach  '16 
Tulia  Lipps  '17 
Mary  E.  Canfield  '17 
Dorothy  Crane  '16 
Edith  Vance  '19 
Cornelia  Gaty  '18 
Louise  Morrell  '08 
Louise  B.  Paisley  '09 
Margaret  Rand 
Sarah   C.   Caldwell  '06 
Winifred    Smith    Chambers 
Florence   I.    Thomasson   '09 
Julia  DeWitt  Read  '10 


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February  has  been  notable  for  many  years 
as  the  birthmonth  of  our  most  famous  Ameri- 
can Presidents  but  to  certain  Lasell  girls  it 
will  in  addition  be  memorable  as  their  wedding 
month. 

On  the  fifth  of  February,  Helen  Soule,  '14, 
became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Norman  Augustus 
Kilby. 

Hazel  Kirk  Harris,  '14,  became  the  bride 
of  Dr.  Victor  P.  Genge  on  February  seven- 
teenth. They  will  be  at  home  after  March 
first  at  105  Railroad  St.,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

February  seventeenth  was  also  the  wedding 
day  of  Eleanor  Frances  McCausland,  '17,  when 
she  became  Mrs.  Norman  Everett  Fleming. 

A  dainty  card  has  been  received  announcing 
the  engagement  of  Margaret  Shedden  Mcln- 
tyre,  '18,  to  Mr.  Dana  Cook  Hoffman. 

Our  congratulations  are  extended  to  these 
favored  young  people. 

On  account  of  the  "flu"  not  only  within  our 
gates,  but  throughout  the  country  it  was  deemed 
best  to  postpone  the  annual  midwinter  reunion 
of  The  Lasell  Alumnae  Association.  The  effi- 
cient committee,  the  chairman  of  which  was 
our  former  President,  Josephine  Woodward 
Rand,  '10,  had  made  complete  preparations  and 
we  had  counted  on  a  splendid  reunion  until 
about  three  days  previous  when  word  came 
that  the  President,  Vice-President,  and  others 
who  were  to  serve  were  "down  with  the  pre- 
valent influenza"  and  hence  the  postponement 
of  the  meeting  naturally  followed.  Our  Prin- 
cipal has  suggested,  and  we  certainly  are 
pleased  with  his  suggestion,  that  all  the  girls 
who  had  planned  to  come  reserve  Tuesday, 
June  8th,  as  the  date  for  the  reunion.     Let's 


have  the  best  Lasell  gathering  of  old  girls  ever 
and  I  am  sure  this  will  come  to  pass  when 
they  read  our  Principal  Emeritus'  message  and 
find  that  he  and  his  family  are  planning  to  be 
"back  at  the  old  school"  this  Commencement 
time.  Let's  all  gather  and  give  to  them  the 
hearty  welcome  due  them.  We  do  not  intend 
to  have  Lasell  old  girls  of  good  and  regular 
standing,  which  naturally  means  all  the  sub- 
scribers of  the  Leaves,  miss  out  on  Dr.  Brag- 
don's  splendid  message  to  the  reunion.  Here 
it  is : 

"To  my  and  other  'old  girls'  "  : 

I  thank  you  for  the  kind  thought  which  has 
travelled  over  the  snowy  mountains  and  sandy 
deserts  of  our  North  America  to  the  sunny 
South-West  inviting  me  to  pay  my  word  of 
greeting  to  you  who  are  assembled  in  your 
Annual  Reunion.  My !  Let  me  catch  my 
breath!    ! 

That  is  one  of  those  long  sentences  with 
which  Lasell's  talented  teacher  of  English  ad- 
vises always  to  open  a  letter  or  an  essay. 

I  achieved  it  last  night  when  I  might  bet- 
ter have  been  asleep.  I  think  there  was  more 
of  it  but  I  have  now  forgotten  the  rest:  So 
now  I  must  take  a  rest !  That  "rest"  business 
is  respectfully  and  "in  memoria"  dedicated  to 
Prof.  Joseph  A.  Hills  with  whom  that  kind  of 
thing  used  to  be  a  habit  and  I  suppose  still  is, 
to  the  envy  of  his  contemporaries — only  he  has 
now  no  contemporaries,  having  outlived  us 
all.  The  dear  fellow  !  !  I  remember  well  when 
he  came  back  one  September  changed  from  50 
to  30 !  Ask  him  about  it !  It  was  a  well- 
wrought  work  of  art ! 

Ah !  blessed  memories !  How  could  I  do 
without  them  now  that  I  am  laid  on  the  shelf  ? 
They  give  me  many  delightful  hours.  They 
bring  back  that  Queen  of  Women,  Miss  C.  J. 
Chamberlayne  who  was  my  surety  and  cour- 
age in  the  days  of  1874  and  '75  when  I  rushed 
in  where  any  sane  man  would  have  feared  to 
tread.  Ask  her  if  she  remembers  one  Monday 
morning  when  I  crept,  unexpected,  into  the 
back  door  of  the  chapel  to  the  consternation 
of  the  pupils  and  to  her  indignation  when 
those  rascals  welcomed  me  from  a  year's  ab- 


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sence  round  the  world?  Not  having  seen  me 
yet  (I  was  behind  one  of  those  big  posts)  she 
arose  saying  "When  you  are  ready  to  hear  me, 
young  ladies,  I  will  continue  my  talk"  and  was 
leaving  the  room  when  I  ran  forward  and  said 
"Good  morning.  Miss  Chamberlayne !"  That 
was  great  fun !  But  nothing  could  unpoise 
Miss  Chamberlayne ! 

Then  there  was  that  sweet-faced  Marion 
Gilmore  who  helped  us  all  by  just  being  what 
she  was.  She  had  the  makings  of  a  saint 
which  is  not  usual  in  young  women  so  far  as 
my  experience  goes !  That  brave  little  class 
of  1876,  my  first  class  at  Lasell.  All  four  gone 
to  their  reward. 

Then  memory  gives  me  that  leader  and  mas- 
ter of  us  all,  Caroline  A.  Carpenter,  who  was 
so  mindful  of  her  girls  that  she  fought  off  her 
inevitable  death  until  they  had  had  all  of  their 
good  times  and  only  dropped  the  fight  when 
Commencement  was  well  past.  There  was  a 
rare  soul  for  you  ! 

And  that  living  joy  and  comfort  Saint  Mary 
who  gave  herself  so  freely  and  unselfishly  to 
us  all!  Her  little  laugh  comes  to  me  often 
and  often  and  makes  glad  my  heart  that  I  was 
permitted  to  know  and  enjoy  so  cheer)'  a  soul 
and  so  beautiful  a  life. 

But  time  would  fail  you — not  me — if  I 
should  recount  the  many,  many,  who  give  me 
pleasure  now.  Do  you  remember  Harry 
Wheeler  who  introduced  to  Lasell  and  through 
Lasell  to  the  world  John  L.  Stoddard  who  be- 
gan his  famous  lectures  in  our  chapel  and  re- 
luctantly, very  reluctantly,  allowed  us  to  coax 
him  to  illustrate  them.  He  said,  in  objection, 
that  to  have  pictures  with  them  would  lower 
their  tone.    But  the  world  thought  differently. 

Some  I  would  mention  at  length  but  you 
have  them  yet  with  you  and  know  their 
strength  :  the  exact — not  exacting — Lil  Pack- 
ard, the  gentle  Lillie  Rose,  the  stalwart  Mary 
Witherbee.  How  I  have  delighted  to  see 
them  grow  into  the  rare  women  that  they  are ! 
"This  is  a  place  for  applause — not  the  only 
one,  by  the  way,  I  trust  you  have  noticed." 

In  1874  we  advanced  the  price  from  $275  to 


$350  against  the  strong  protest' of  the  Trustees 
who  foretold  a  lack  of  pupils  under  so  ex- 
travagant a  cost.  See  what  it  will  be  — must 
be — next  year !  So  has  membership  in  Lasell 
grown  in  value  under  your  present  efficient 
and  beloved  Principal  and  his  Aids.  (Ap- 
plause!) 

Presently  we  started  Cooking  and  whew ! 
how  the  colleges  did  scold !  !  But  this  is  long 
enough !  I  shake  the  hand  of  each  of  you  in 
greeting  and  wish  you  the  best  year  yet :  more 
love  in  it  and  less  scolding ;  more  joy  in  service 
and  less  in  being  served ;  more  laying  up  treas- 
ure in  Heaven. 

Before  you  go,  subscribe  for  The  Leaves 
and  engage  your  places  for  June  next  when  I 
hope  to  see  you  all  once  more  before  I  go  to 
join  those  whose  memories  are  so  precious. 

Blessings  be  upon  you  each  and  all ! 

Lovingly,  C.  C.  B. 

An  impromptu  committee  did  their  work 
pretty  well  for  they  succeeded  in  interrupting 
the  hosts  of  old  girls  who  had  accepted  the  in- 
vitation for  February  ninth.  Only  two  did  not 
receive  their  message,  Mosetta  Stafford 
Vaughan,  '86,  our  former  President,  and  Bes- 
sie Hayward,  '96.  They  live  in  our  neighbor- 
hood and  so  did  not  have  far  to  journey  and 
we  had  a  private  reunion  all  to  ourselves.  They 
were  gracious  enough  to  declare  that  they  felt 
the  time  spent  at  Lasell  worth  while  and 
learned  many  things  of  interest  which  they 
might  not  have  learned  had  the  company  been 
larger.  Those  of  us  who  live  at  Lasell  said 
one  to  another  after  they  had  gone,  "It  is  just 
too  bad  that  we  do  not  see  these  near  neigh- 
bors often." ' 

Bess  Robinson  Breed  and  Louise  Morrell, 
'08,  Bessie's  guest,  spent  a  few  hours  at  Lasell 
recently.  Bessie  is  now  living  in  Lynn  and  is 
kind  enough  to  say  that  she  likes  Massachu- 
setts almost  as  well  as  Connecticut.  Louise 
tells  us  that  Bessie  is  a  famous  housekeeper,  is 
wholly  mistress  of  the  situation  in  her  home, 
and  equal  to  the  demands  of  that  devoted  hus- 
band of  hers.  After  visiting  around  among 
other  Lasell  friends  in  the  vicinity  of  Boston 


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Louise  was  returning  to  her  home  in  New 
Jersey,  but  stopped  en  route  to  be  the  guest 
of  Sue  Gallup. 

In  a  letter  to  our  head  nurse,  Caroline  Lind- 
say, Amy  Tuthill,  '18,  writes,  "Although  teach- 
ing away  up  in  Vermont,  I  have  many  musical 
treats.  I  heard  Kreisler  this  fall  and  recently 
the  Russian  Symphony  Orchestra,  wonderful 
music  it  was."  She  closes  with,  "I  think  of 
you  and  my  teachers  often." 

That  was  a  splendid  letter  from  Dorothy 
Barnes,  '18,  received  recently.  She  writes,  "I 
get  the  Lasell  Leaves  and  so  enjoy  reading 
every  bit  of  news  in  them.  I  really  think  the 
Leaves  are  unusually  good  this  year  and  if 
the  girls  on  the  staff  only  knew  how  much  we 
graduates  and  old  girls  appreciate  their  work 
I  am  sure  they  would  feel  well  repaid.  After 
I  finish  with  each  copy  I  pass  them  on  to  Edna 
and  Emmy  Lou  Christiansen  of  Minneapolis, 
who  with  their  family  are  spending  the  winter 
in  California.  We  drove  out  here  from  Kan- 
sas in  the  machine  arriving  in  Los  Angeles  in 
late  October.  We  had  a  wonderful  trip  com- 
ing through  the  Petrified  Forest  and  then 
spending  a  few  days  at  the  Grand  Canyon. 
I  have  been  working  some  too  since  reaching 
Los  Angeles.  My  older  sister  Flavel  (Lasell 
remembers  very  pleasantly  this  older  sister  of 
Dorothy's  who  entertained  us  delightfully  with 
her  readings  while  a  guest  of  Dorothy  at 
Lasell)  and  I  have  attended  a  Secretarial 
School  and  accomplished  a  great  deal."  Dor- 
othy is  now  her  father's  private  secretary. 
While  in  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  this  summer  she 
writes  of  having  seen  Dorothy  Balch  and  Dor- 
othy Shove,  both  splendid  girls.  She  adds, 
"It  is  strange  how  many  Lasell  girls  are  in 
California.  My  sister  and  I  gave  a  tea  one 
afternoon  recently  and  there  were  seven  Lasell 
girls  present.  Among  the  number  were  Edith 
Holman,  who  is  in  Long  Beach  for  the  winter, 
Edna  and  Emmy  Lou  Christiansen,  Edessa, 
'11,  and  Helen  Warner,  '18,  of  Detroit  who  re- 
cently came  to  Los  Angeles  with  their  folks 
for  the  remainder  of  the  winter.  Amy  Phil- 
lips, 18,  and  Mary  Frances  Moore,  '16.  I  have 
also  met  Gladys,  '11,  and  Caroline  Lawton  who 


are  spending  the  winter  in  Pasadena.  Swim- 
ming is  occupying  all  my  spare  time  these  days. 
I  am  sure  that  if  Mrs.  Smith  could  see  me  she 
would  not  feel  that  she  had  worked  in  vain 
although  I  was  slow  in  learning."  Dorothy 
enclosed  a  clipping  giving  an  interesting  ac- 
count of  a  party  where  the  announcement  was 
made  of  Marion  Lord's  engagement  to  Charles 
Cobb  who  has  recently  returned  from  a  two 
years'  service  in  France. 

In  a  letter  to  Dr.  Winslow,  Helen  Over- 
holser,  '16,  writes  from  Claremont,  California, 
that  she  had  hoped  to  return  to  her  Alma  Mater 
in  June  but  fears  her  school  supervising  will 
detain  her.  She  speaks  of  how  much  she  en- 
joyed a  short  visit  with  Miss  Potter  and  Kath- 
erine  Dearborn,  '16,  this  summer.  She  closes 
with  best  wishes  for  a  bigger  and  better  Lasell. 

Nell  Jones  Yeomans,  '05.  writes  a  delightful 
letter  to  our  Principal  which  is  filled  with  loyal 
expressions  and  containing  just  the  news  of 
herself  and  her  dear  younger  sister  which  we 
enjoy  hearing.  In  speaking  of  her  new  home 
which  they  occupied  in  November  she  writes, 
"We  are  on  the  edge  of  the  country  but  only 
half  a  block  from  the  car  line.  The  birds 
would  not  come  to  us  down  town  so  we  had 
to  come  to  them.  We  have  a  lovely  cardinal 
all  winter  in  our  back  yard;  he  will  not  come 
to  the  kitchen  window 'yet  but  the  little  jun- 
coes  come  all  the  time."  We  are  especially  in- 
terested in  her  dreams  that  her  two  little 
daughters  Janet  and  Eleanor  are  booked  for 
Lasell  some  years  hence. 

Ruth  K.  Merriam,  '98,  was  also  one  of  the 
loyal  Lasell  girls  who  sent  a  friendly  line  to 
Dr.  Winslow  in  response  to  the  questionnaire 
sent  out  to  the  old  girls. 

From  far  away  Mexico  came  a  message 
from  dear  Rosenda  Cabrera,  '19.  She  declares 
herself  surprised  and  at  the  same  time  happy 
over  the  news  of  a  larger  Lasell.  "I  have  al- 
ways wished  for  Lasell  prosperity  and  a  fine 
spirit."  She  makes  us  glad  in  turn  by  declar- 
ing that  she  hopes  to  visit  Lasell  again  during 
the  coming  year.     She  adds,  "The  four  years 


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I  spent  with  you  always  will  be  remembered  as 
the  best  ones  of  those  of  my  education.  I  am 
very  grateful  to  you.  I  made  friendships  of 
which  I  am  proud  for  all  of  them  are  very 
worthy.  I  also  learned  the  real  character  of 
your  girls.  Now  I  wish  that  a  larger  number 
of  you  would  come  and  learn  ours.  You  know 
that  we  have  intelligence  among  youth  as  in 
all  the  world,  but  not  many  give  us  credit  for 
it.  I  am  sure  that  if  some  of  your  people 
would  come  more  to  my  country  they  would 
have  a  different  opinion  of  everything  in  gen- 
eral, even  you  Doctor.  So  I  am  hoping  that 
you  will  honor  our  city  with  a  visit.  Conchita 
Aguirre  and  I  meet  very  often  and  we  hope 
sometime  that  we  will  have  a  Lasell  Club  in 
Mexico  City."  We  certainly  appreciate  this 
fine,  friendly  message  from  Rosenda  whose 
presence  in  our  school  has  given  to  many  of 
us  a  new  and  delightful  idea  of  Mexican  young 
womanhood. 

Helen  Sayre  Jacobs,  '11,  is  now  at  her  old 
home  in  Michigan.  Her  husband  is  still  in 
the  army.  Helen  kindly  sent  the  name  of  a 
possible  candidate  for  Lasell  and  promised  to 
do  some  other  good  work  along  this  line  later. 
We  thank  her  for  her  unfailing  interest  in 
Lasell. 

Grace  Rowe  Vail,  '05.  writes  from  Wood- 
bury, New  Jersey.  Her  husband  who  was  at 
one  time  in  service  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has 
taken  a  course  in  osteopathy  and  is  now  a 
graduate  practitioner.  She  adds,  "We  have 
two  sturdy  youngsters,  Charles  Rowe  aged 
four  years,  and  Marjorie  aged  fourteen 
months,  who  we,  of  course,  expect  to  send  to 
Lasell.  I  am  always  proud  to  say  that  I  am 
a  graduate  of  Lasell."  She  sends  greetings 
to  those  who  remember  way  back  to  '05. 

F.  Lucile  Joscelyn,  '15,  writes  on  American 
Red  Cross  paper  from  Caribou,  Maine.  She 
starts  right  in  with  a  loyal  tribute  to  the  school 
and  is  glad  to  receive  such  encouraging  re- 
ports. She  has  over  thirty  families  in  her 
care  including  one  hundred  and  six  children 
besides  soldier  and  sailor  work  which  is  by  no 
means  finished.  She  says,  "We  had  a  great 
time   Christmas   visiting  the   various    families 


with  Christmas  cheer  and  helping  the  parents 
to  give  their  children  their  first  real  Christmas. 
I  have  a  splendid  office,  a  fine  stenographer 
and  a  wonderful  executive  committee.  I  am 
hoping  now  to  be  able  to  attend  the  '15  reunion 
next  June." 

Clara  L.  Parker,  '12,  of  Goffstown,  New 
Hampshire,  is  at  home  again  having  returned 
last  spring  from  Washington,  according  to  her 
own  word,  to  be  bridesmaid  at  Mildred  Hall 
Leber's,  '12,  wedding  where  she  declared  that 
they  had  such  a  good  time,  almost  like  a  Lasell 
reunion.  Clara  was  in  Washington  for  over 
a  year  doing  war  work.  She  tells  us  that 
Esther  Morey,  '12,  and  Ruth  Butterworth,  '11, 
are  still  "on  the  job"  at  the  National  Capital. 

In  a  letter  received  recently  from  Miss  Dol- 
ley  we  learn  to  our  pride,  although  she  mod- 
estly states  it,  that  she  recently  submitted  an 
original  pageant,  the  manuscript  of  which  has 
been  turned  over  to  the  Supervisor  of  the 
Home  Economics  of  New  York  City  schools. 
It  was  a  Good  Health  Pageant,  Disease  usurp- 
ing the  throne  of  Good  Health,  the  attendants 
or  followers  being  Bacteria,  Flies,  Malnutri- 
tion, etc.  and  the  others  were  Fresh  Air,  Sleep, 
Bottled  Milk,  Tooth  Brushes,  and  what  not. 
Songs  and  dances  were  introduced,  among 
them  being  the  Fly  dance.  The  closing  tableau 
was  Good  Health  restored  to  her  throne  and 
Malnutrition  and  the  stunted  growth  children 
having  deserted  Disease  return  and  swear  al- 
legiance to  Good  Health.  She  also  writes  that 
'  she  and  Miss  Rand  were  about  to  take  a 
Chinese  dinner  cooked  and  served  by  our  Nel- 
lie Wong  who  by  the  way  is  graduating  from 
Columbia  this  year  and  will  return  to  teach 
in  one  of  the  Canton,  China,  schools.  Of  Nel- 
lie she  writes,  "Have  you  heard  that  she 
earned  ninety  dollars  during  the  holidays 
speaking  before  Rotary  Clubs?  I  saw  her 
picture  and  an  article  about  her  speech  in  a 
Buffalo  paper  after  she  spoke  there.  It  praised 
her  very  highly." 

Elizabeth  Linn  Manness,  '13,  recently  wrote 
to  our  Principal  that  she  is  planning  to  move 


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into  a  town  not  too  far  from  Boston  where 
she  can  have  her  little  family  in  the  near 
neighborhood  of  a  good  school.  She  has  es- 
pecially in  mind  The  Woodland  Park.  This 
means  that  it  is  quite  possible  Lasell  will  have 
one  of  her  graduates  as  a  near  neighbor  and 
we  will  give  her  a  hearty  welcome. 

Julia  Crafts,  TO,  is  at  her  old  home  in 
Greenville  Junction,  Maine,  and  in  a  recent 
letter  to  Lasell  tells  of  a  wonderful  trans- 
continental trip  which  she  and  a  friend  made 
not  so  very  long  ago  going  out  to  the  Pacific 
Coast  via  the  Grand  Canyon  and  returning 
via  the  Canadian  Rockies.  She  visited  Leona 
Benner  Brotherton,  '08,  in  California  and  had 
a  good  time  talking  over  the  old  school  days. 
Leona  is  very  happy  and  her  little  boy  is  a 
darling.  Marriott  Degan  MacDonald  hap- 
pened to  be  at  home  visiting  her  parents  so 
that  she  had  a  fine  visit  with  her  in  Pasadena. 
She  was  sorry  not  to  see  Dr.  Bragdon.  Julia 
is  spending  the  winter  in  Florida. 

Dear  Alice  Linscott  Hall,  '78,  opens  her 
message  with  the  declaration  that  she  is  al- 
ways longing  to  send  worthy  pupils  to  Lasell 
and  surely  Alice  is  in  line  to  do  this  very  thing 
as  her  husband  is  one  of  the  leading  educators 
in  Missouri.  To  our  Principal  she  writes, 
"Thank  you  for  your  words  of  welcome  to  the 
dear  old  place.  I  wanted  greatly  to  have  a 
class  reunion  for  our  fortieth  anniversary  but 
the  .world  was  at  war  and  there  seemed  no 
place  for  even  such  mild  frivolities  as  we 
grand-mothers  would  have  indulged  in.  May- 
be we  can  be  there  on  our  fiftieth !" 

Gertrude  Strain  writes  from  Berkeley, 
California,  for  her  credentials  and  hopes  soon 
to  enter  the  University  there.  She  has  our 
good  wishes. 

Elinor  Ryan  Hixenbaugh,  '12,  writes  from 
Omaha,  Nebraska.  (Girls  of  her  day  may 
remember  that  Elinor  was  one  of  the  State 
University  students  who  was  honored  in  be- 
ing selected  as  a  delegate  to  sail  on  the  Peace 
Boat  sent  out  by  Henry  Ford  and  they  will 
also  remember  that  she  met  her  husband  to  be 
on    that    same    memorable   voyage.)     To    Dr. 


YVinslow  she  writes,  "Your  letter  sounding  out 
the  call  to  "old  girls"  was  the  first  direct  word 
I  have  had  from  Lasell  for  a  long  time.  Its 
message  was  very  welcome,  particularly  as  it 
bore  the  news  of  a  Lasell  ever-growing  and 
so  ever  increasing  its  sphere  of  influence.  My 
best  wish  for  it  is  that  it  may  mean  as  much 
to  each  one  of  the  present  students  as  it  did 
to  us  when  I  was  there.  I  shall  always  be 
glad  to  acknowledge  my  debt  to  Lasell  as  a 
big  influence  in  my  life,  not  even  overshad- 
owed by  college  days.  Because  I  don't  hear 
from  Lasell  direct  doesn't  mean  that  I  don't 
get  Lasell  news.  We  old  "1912  third  floorites 
of  Carpenter"  still  keep  up  our  ever  welcome 
round  robin  and  the  added  interest  from  the 
increase  of  our  circle  by  husbands  and  babies 
more  than  counterbalances  the  delay  in  cor- 
respondence that  these  entail.  Since  my  hus- 
band's return  from  the  war,  we  have  settled 
in  Omaha  where  he  is  associated  in  the  pub- 
lishing business  with  his  father."  She  doesn't 
forget  the  names  of  her  old  friends  at  Lasell 
■and  sends  special  greetings  to  Miss  Witherbee, 
Miss  Irwin  and  Miss  Rand  and  best  wishes 
to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow.  One  of  her  pet 
dreams  is  to  take  a  holiday  jaunt  to  New  Eng- 
land so  she  can  introduce  her  husband  to 
Lasell. 

Margery  Deffenbaugh,  '18,  writes,  "I  am 
glad  to  know  that  such  a  large  number  of 
girls  have  decided  to  make  Lasell  their  school 
home.  If  they  enjoy  the  life  as  much  as  I  did 
while  there  I  am  sure  there  will  be  no  doubt 
in  their  minds  about  coming  back  another  year. 
Mabelle  Wells,  Winifred  Tracy,  '18,  and  I 
have  enjoyed  a  house  party  at  Isabelle  War- 
ner's both  summers  since  we  all  left  school  so 
you  may  know  what  good  times  we  have  talk- 
ing about  the  things  which  took  place  at 
Lasell.  Miriam  Bell,  '19,  and  I  are  planning 
for  a  day  together  in  Pittsburgh  soon." 

Do  all  the  girls  remember  Mary  Quick's, 
'14,  address?  It  is  421  Mulberry  St.,  Muncie, 
Indiana.  She  is  teaching  kindergarten  again 
and  enjoying  the  work  very  much. 

Annie  Crowe  Collum,  '09,  writes  from  St. 


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Petersburg,  Florida,  where  she  is  again  spend- 
ing the  winter.  She  compares  the  sharp  con- 
trast between  her  Winnipeg  home  and  the 
balmy  air  of  the  south  for  as  she  puts  it, 
"She  went  from  fifteen  degrees  below  zero  to 
eighty  degrees  above."  Among  other  lively 
news  she  writes,  "I  encountered  my  first  live 
rattle  snake  last  week.  It  was  a  small  one 
but  eagerly  showed  me  its  fangs.  I  had  noth- 
ing at  hand  to  kill  it  and  by  the  time  I  hailed 
a  man  chopping  wood,  it  disappeared  in  the 
grass.  He  set  the  grass  on  fire  and  that  drove 
it  out  and  to  its  death.  It  is  good  news  in- 
deed that  both  Lasell  and  AVoodland  Park  are 
having  such  success.  It  must  be  very  gratify- 
ing." Annie  adds,  "I  am  still  hoping  for  better 
news  from  the  Senate  in  their  attitude  to- 
wards the  League  of  Nations."  She  closes 
with  greetings  to  Miss  Potter,  Miss  Witherbee. 
and  all  the  other  Lasell  friends. 

Katharine  Jenckes  Knox,  '04,  sends  a  mes- 
sage from  San  Francisco  where  she  is  stay- 
ing because  of  her  husband's  transfer  from 
Washington  to  the  Naval  Training  Station  at 
San  Francisco.  On  her  way  west  she  had 
two  hours'  visit  between  trains  with  Helen 
Danforth  Baker  in  Portland,  Oregon.  She 
says  she  has  an  attractive  home  and  Katharine 
was  especially  glad  to  see  Helen's  two  splendid 
boys. 

How  glad  her  school  friends  will  be  to  know 
that  Dorothy  Belcher  is  now  the  Head  Dieti- 
tian in  the  Memorial  Hospital  at  Morristown. 
N.  J.  She  speaks  of  having  had  pupils  from 
Pratt  and  numerous  other  schools  and  colleges 
and  she  hopes  to  influence  some  to  register 
from  her  old  school  home.  We  are  certainly 
proud  of  Dorothy's  success. 

Ruth  Ketcham  Sturtevant,  '13,  is  now  Secre- 
tary to  the  High  School  Board  of  Education 
at  Oak  Park,  Illinois.  She  writes,  "We  have 
between  sixteen  and  seventeen  hundred  pupils 
this  year  and  I  come  in  contact  with  many 
students.  I  hope  in  this  way  that  I  shall  find 
some  splendid  young  women  to  send  to  Lasell 
this  coming  year.  Our  Chicago  Lasell  Club 
meeting  this  fall  was  a  success.     There  was  a 


larger  group  than  usual  and  a  number  of  the 
girls  who  have  not  attended  for  some  time 
were  present.  Dora  Goodwillie,  '14,  and  I, 
often  wish  that  we  might  return  to  Lasell  for 
a  year  perhaps." 

Esther  Scouller  Anderson,  '93,  is  now  one 
of  the  house  mothers  in  a  dormitory  at  Dobbs 
Ferry  and  although  enjoying  her  work  very 
much  she  is  still  loyal  to  her  Alma  Mater  and 
is  hoping  to  be  with  us  at  Commencement 
time. 

Elsie  Doleman,  '14,  is  now  at  Darlington 
Seminary,  West  Chester,  Pa.  "When  I 
graduated  from  Sargent  and  decided  to  teach 
in  private  schools,"  she  writes,  "I  was  told 
I  would  soon  get  tired  of  it  and  I  have.  The 
trouble  was  I  judged  private  schools  by 
Lasell  and  found  that  they  are  far  from  Lasell 
standards.  The  more  I  see  of  other  schools 
the  more  I  realize  the  advantages  of  my  Alma 
Mater."  In  this  southern  school  Elsie  tells  us 
that  during  the  early  part  of  the  year  their 
work  kept  them  afield  spending  much  time 
playing  hockey  and  soccer.  She  confesses 
that  all  her  spare  time  she  puts  into  'cello 
practice.  She,  like  all  loyal  Lasell  girls,  re- 
joices in  the  prosperity  of  our  school  and  we 
in  turn  congratulate  her  on  her  making  good 
in  her  present  position. 

Helen  Smith,  '19,  hoped  to  return  to  Lasell 
this  fall  but  her  duties  at  the  Art  School  make 
it  impossible  to  leave  for  any  length  of  time. 
She  is  taking  up  a  course  in  Decorative  Design 
which  includes  architecture,  perspective,  in- 
terior decoration,  and  other  lines  of  study  and 
she  is  looking  forward  to  returning  to  her 
Alma  Mater  next  June. 

Grace  Griswold,  '08,  adds  her  name  to  the 
many  who  are  sending  congratulations  over 
the  splendid  success  of  Lasell  this  year.  She 
speaks  of  her  four  happy  and  profitable  years 
spent  in  our  school  and  thinks  she  would  have 
to  go  far  to  find  as  fine  a  gathering  of  girls 
as  those  who  assemble  each  year  at  the  school 
home.  She  is  working  at  the  John  Hay  Li- 
brary at  Brown  University,  Providence,  and 
likes  her  work  very  much. 


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Helen  Foster,  '16,  writes  to  our  Registrar 
that  she  is  teaching  at  home.  She  has  over 
twenty  pupils  and  has  also  been  playing  the 
organ  in  the  Methodist  Church  for  over  a 
year.  She  often  sees  Mildred  Ordway,  '16, 
and  they  affectionately  talk  Lasell  over. 

After  three  busy  years  in  war  work  in 
Washington,  Susan  Stryker,  10,  is  now  at 
home  and  rejoices  in  the  good  news  from 
Lasell. 

Kathryn  Craig,  '18,  is  at  home  in  Sheridan, 
Wyoming,  but  her  thoughts  are  often  afield 
and  constantly  returning  to  Lasell.  She  de- 
clares that  she  gets  a  good  deal  of  Lasell  news 
through  Barbara  McLellan,  '18,  and  Gertrude 
Trafton,  '19.  In  speaking  of  the  recent  coal 
strike,  she  declares  that  the  miners  in  her  re- 
gion behaved  very  well  and  adds,  "By  the  way, 
a  number  of  eastern  capitalists  have  con- 
solidated the  Sheridan  district,  seven  mines  in 
all,  and  Acme  was  one  of  them  so  we  are 
temporarily,  at  least,  jobless  but  of  course  we 
will  stay  west.  I  hope  I  may  come  east  for  a 
month  this  spring  and  will  surely  go  to  Au- 
burndale.  I  do  get  so  homesick  for  a  glimpse 
of  Lasell.  My  best  wishes  for  continuous 
prosperity  of  the  school  and  happy  greetings 
to  you,   Dr.   and  Mrs.  Winslow." 

Our  merry  Eleanor  Beaman,  '19,  has  settled 
down  to  a  serious  occupation  and  is  now  at 
Johns  Hopkins  Hospital  specializing  in  dietet- 
ics. She  enjoys,  her  work  very  much  and 
occasionally  meets"  Phyllis  Rowe,  '19,  and 
Miss  Mount.  The  latter  is  at  Maryland  State 
College. 

Seldom  has  our  school  been  more  shocked 
and  grieved  than  to  learn  of  the  sudden  pass- 
ing away  of  Lorna  Doone  Merritt  who  was 
with  us  two  years  ago  from  Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan.  She  was  attending  the  State  Uni- 
versity at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  and  was  a 
victim  of  influenza  finally  resulting  in  pneu- 
monia. She  was  laid  to  rest  in  Grand  Rapids 
on  Sunday,  February  8th.  Lasell's  tenderest 
sympathy  is  extended  to-  her  bereaved  par- 
ents artd  the  large  circle  of  devoted  school- 
mates who  will  find  it  difficult  to  be  reconciled 
to  the  loss  of  this  beautiful  and  gifted  friend. 


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Klutr     we     HAVE     SHOWERS  T 


-^1     fcr- 


Name 

Ambition 

Hobby 

Favorite  Resting 
Place 

Saying 

Adams 

To  get  fat 

To  make  a  veil  go  a 
long  way 

3rd   floor    Carpenter 

"Now,   I   ask  you." 

Balch 

To  pick  one 

Collect    "Dots" 

Orphean      and      gym 
class 

"I  am  cuckoo." 

Balcom 

Edit  a  magazine 

Singing  in  public 

"Oh   cripe." 

Bass 

To  drive  a  racer 

Making  noise 

U                                                    l» 

Bregman 
and   Kuhn 

First      out      in      the 
morning 

Letters      and     phone 
calls 

Boston 

Brooks 

Reciting 

Burnet 

Have  a   Waterman 

Writing  verse 

Mail  box 

"I   want  to  tell  you." 

Burnham 

To  be  a  ragtime  en- 
tertainer 

Skiing 

Newton 

"Pysche  at  the 
pump." 

Carey 

Grand  opera  star 

Hearing      deep      lec- 
tures 

"Oh  girls." 

Campbell 

Get  back  to   a  co-ed 
school 

Writing  poetry 

The  Drug  Store 

"Am  I   late?" 

Crane 

Have  a  Frat  pin 

Putting  on   records 

P.  K. 

"I'm  so  hungry." 

Crawford 

Champion   giggler 

Our  newsstand 

Berkeley 

"Let's  go  to  the  vill." 

Davidson 

To  give  up  being  sin- 
gle 

Eating  figs 

Orphean 

"Why,      honey,      I'm 
'bliged  to." 

Davis 

Being  agreeable 

Telephone 

"Marjorie." 

Eaton 

Have  a  family 

Fish  houses 

"Not  really." 

Fish 

To  be  an  elocutionist 

Entertaining   Janet 

Janet  Hannah's  room 

"Goodness." 

Files 

To  work  in  Dieges  & 
Clust 

Doing  things  wrong 

Bed  before  lights 

"My  dear." 

Florence 

To     go     to     Panama 
Canal  as  Sec't'y 

Spending    money    on 
manicure  supplies 

Winter  Garden  West- 
minster 

"By  golly." 

Forgie 

To   own   a   cute  little 
home,     no     matter 
how  small 

Being  playful 

Perk's   room 

"My  grab." 

Furbush 

To    have    a    portable 
bungalow 

Getting  home  Sunday 
p    m. 

Schraft's 

"Oh   only  60  days  to 
Easter." 

Griffin 

Chasing    cats 

Room  42  Bragdon 

"Oh  golly." 

Grimes 

To  teach   Spanish 

Neal-ing 

"Oh   G'wan." 

Grant 

To  be  Miss  Packard's 
successor 

Reposing    like    Cleo- 
patra   in    her    bou- 

floir 

Leave    Lasell  ?      No. 
Never. 

"I    wonder    what 
next." 

Hardy 

To  be  a  teacher 

Getting  a  crush 

Up  in   Lina's  room 

"Oh  irry  hat." 

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Hayden 

To  get  a  good  mark 
once 

- 

In  the  Buick 

"Oh  good  grief." 

Heath 

Get  Wilde 

Originality 

"Ah  think  so." 

Hussey 

To   write  "locals" 

Finding  something  to 
do 

With    K.    Wyman 

Hubbard 

To  be  a  movie  star 

Baby  talk 

"Oh  dear." 
"Some  life." 

James 

To  become  an  actress 

Thoughtfulness 

Winthrop 

"You  know  it." 

Keniston 

To  some  day  have  a 
Hall  of  her  own 

Worrying     for     Car- 
penter 

The     home     of     the 
griddle  cakes 

"What  am  I  going  to 
do  now?" 

Kirkpatrick 

To    be    able    to    take 
weights   off   weigh- 
ing machine 

Eating  peppermints 

Filene's  8th  floor 

Louis 

To  go  to  Champagne 

School  jester 

"I !" 

Lyon 

To   become    a    movie 

star 

Writing  love  letters 

Boudoir 

"Got  anything  to 
read?" 

McFarland 

To   some   time   settle 
down 

To  have  a  good  time 
all  the  time 

Chateau 

"Oh  what  a  cute  lit- 
tle thing." 

Manville 

To   enter   the   Follies 

Letter  writing 

Bunny  Strople's  bou- 
doir 

"Oh,   good   night." 

O'Brien 

Father  confessor 

Strange  diseases 

Lake    Charlie 

"Oh,  you  nitwit !" 

Patten 

Loud  noise 

Florence 

Perley 

To  be   a   short  story 
writer 

Vamping 

Her   sister's   room 

"Wouldn't       it       kill 

vou?" 

Perry 

To  get  married 

Watching    for   "Simp 
Daily" 

Cambridge 

"Sh,  1  m  monitor 
around  here" 

Prince 

To  gather 

Eating  out 

Colonial 

Oh.  my  Spanish" 

Rankin 

Chewing  gum 

Waltham 

•OH—!!" 

Rice 

Wife   of   an   oil   king- 

Spending    money 

Indianapolis 

'Hev— vou" 

Rogers 

To   be   serious 

Going    West 

"You    nincompoop!" 

Sanborn 

To  have  Wats — on 

Getting   fussed' 

"No.    reallv?" 

Shidler 

To     be     the     school 

skeleton   - 

Swearing  off 

Sprague 

Seamstress 

Cutting   haii- 

Miss    Wright's   room 

? ! *** 

Stevens 

To  catch  a  fish 

To  chanerone  Evelyn 

Hotel   Touraine 

'He   is  some  peanut" 

Stewart 

To    have    a    Bartlett 
pair 

Driving  Hudson  car 

Webster 

Tait 

To   be   the  owner   of 
"Karots" 

Entertaining    on    last 
seat  on  Auburndale 
train 

New  Bedford 

"I'm   so  ashamed" 

Thompson 

To  chef  for  Cheffy 

Collect    curl    papers 

Drue-store 

■What?" 

Parker 

To  get  a  diploma 

Miss    Witherbee's 
room 

"My  dear" 

Westervelt 

To     be     Al's     under- 
study 

On  a  pillow 

'Go  to  soak" 

Whitney 

To  be  a  waitress 

The       reading       and 
writing  of  verse 

"Oh,  heck" 

cv„ 


WHen 


VEIIeii        NEEds      Pi    FnieNd! 


A     bew.'cv'c,    (Y.^kinhnc!  \Alh.'c^  one!. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


37 


r  /^\9^o^   — 


A   SENIOR'S    DESIRE 


>*\     /    /   / 


A  FAIRY  TALE 


This  "story"  was  told  by  a  Junior — do  you 
believe  it? 

The  palace  "Belle  Isle"  is  situated  far  away 
out  "West"  in  the  "Greenwood."  It  was  a 
"Cole"  "Hayes — y"  "Knight"  when  a  "Mer- 
chant" set  out  along  the  "Wild"  way  to  find 
the  hidden  "King."  Choosing  the  "Wright" 
path,  he  walked  along  by  the  "Brooks" 
"Dodge"-ing  briars  and  brambles.  "Weil" 
crossing  a  "Wal-d-bridge"  he  heard  a  "Rus- 
sell" "Andrew"  closer  to  perceive  a  nest  of 
"Coons."  Nothing  "Moore"  hindering  him, 
he  arrived  at  the  "Temple"  after  a  long  te- 
dious journey,  and  passed  quietly  up  the 
"Ordway."  The  "Butler"  allowing  him  to 
enter  escorted  him  through  a  "Newhall"  at 
the  end  of  which  was  seated,  on  a  bright 
"Greene"  throne,  the  long-searched-for 
"Kaiser"   feasting  on  "Schweitzer"   cheese. 


To  have  a  smile  like  Elsie  Crowell, 
Have  dimples  like  Nell  West, 
Have  complexion  like  Dot  Ely, 
Have  hair  like  Edith  Boadway, 
Walk  like  Ruth  Harrington, 
Talk 'like  Julia  Russell, 
Look  like  Lilian  Doane, 
Be  winsome  like  Billy  Lewis, 
Be  popular  like  Eunice  Perkins, 
Play  the  piano  like  Buddy  Greene, 
Sing  like  Marion  Bodwell, 
Paint  like  Ruth  Ordway, 
Get  marks  like  Emily  Blanchard. 


Helen  F. :    "Have  you  read  '20,000  Leagues 
under  the  sea'  ?" 

Glad  B. :     "No,  that's  too  deep  for  me." 


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Oh,  it's  nice  to  stay  in  bed,  eh,  what  ? 

Till  7-8-or  9. 

And  take  a  Monday  catnap, 

Say,  girls,  now  ain't  that  fine? 

But,  O,  it's  quite  another  tune 

To  hear  that  ol'  roll  call 

And  have  to  sit — for  hours — 

Servin'  time  in  Study  Hall ! 


J  A_    iry^k 

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And     After 
RECIPE   OF   A   SENIOR 


Materials  :  A  heaping  cup  of  dignity ;  one 
tablespoon  of  scorn;  one  tablespoon  of  sar- 
casm ;  one  tablespoon  of  carelessness ;  four 
tablespoons  of  brilliant  wit;  four  tablespoons 
of  bluff,  (measure  with  care,  as  it  lends  arti- 
ficial colorings  which  can  easily  be  detected)  ; 
four  tablespoons  of  egotism;  half  cup  of 
honeyed  sweetness ;  half  cup  of  bewitching 
smiles ;  speck  of  vanity. 


A  woodpecker  lit  on  a  Junior's  head, 
He  gave  one  monstrous  peck; 

The  shell  was  thin, 

The  bird  sank  in, 
Away  down  to  the  Junior's  neck. 


Helen    Gqqns 


Winter       Sports  — 
5EE.KINQ      5YMPM-HY 
WANTED 


A  marcel   for  "K"  Rice. 
A  man  for  Dot  Balch. 
Food  for  Doris  Crawford. 
Hair  tonic  for  Glad  Burnet. 
A  crush  for  Freda  Griffin. 
A  smile  for  Marion  Eaton. 
An  alarm  clock  for  Flo  Kuhn. 
Something  "Wright"  for  Pete  Sprague. 
Piano   Lessons   for  Al  Grimes. 
A  husband  tor  Lois  Perry. 
A  tonic  for  Helen  O'Brien. 
Pep  for  Doris  Rogers  and  Jimmie  James. 
A  sweet  disposition  for  Ann  Crane. 
Soothing  syrup  for  Elaine  Bass. 
A  southern  dialect  for  Sue  Davidson. 
Sonnets  for  Julia  Rankin. 
A  barber  for  Helene  Westervelt. 
A  dust  rag  for  Helen  Sanborn. 
Anything    from    Dartmouth     for    Frankie 
Heath. 

A  frat  pin  for  Tommy  Thompson. 

Clothes  for  Helen  Files. 

A  passing  grade  for  Helen  Brooks. 


LASELL    LEAVES  39 

THINGS  WE  CANT   IMAGINE 


V.ol. 


Jumvan 


Lillian    Doane 


On      wKich      Side       should        a 
Junior    wear     The      tassel   f 

It  has  been  moved  and  seconded  by  the 
Senior  class — 

1. — That  all  gym  classes  be'  omitted  the  day 
after  steak  is  served. 

2. — That  an  elevator  be  provided  for  the 
History  of  Art  class. 

3. — That  a  traffic  cop  be  placed  before  mail 
boxes  at  mail  time. 


bmcJere  (I  a  5      speaker,  foi/ji<j    in 
Gardner,  just    fiffed    Vi    SJIiVdn  J 


Jimmie  James  on  Student  Council. 
Lillian  Grant  on  restrictions. 
Jessie  Melanson  weighing  135. 
Elaine  Bass  thrilled. 
Alice  Pape  not  talking. 

Lorraine  Hurley  without  Florence  Gifford. 
Glad  Burnet  without  a  letter. 
Eunice  Perkins  without  a  Senior. 
Celina  M.  Belle  Isle  not  tatting. 
Helen  Conger  with  bobbed  hair. 
Fran  Adams  with  her  sewing  done. 
Virginia  Hussey  not  telling  fortunes. 
Helen  Louis  not  wearing  her  Frat  pin. 
Maria  Cabrera  quiet. 
"K"  Rice  on  time  for  breakfast. 
Gladys  Lucas  not  in  study  hall. 
Marion  Eaton  the   first   out   of   the  dining 
room. 

Viola  Sullivan  not  inquisitive. 
Mother  Hubbard ! 


Jr    CASUALTY     LIST  — 

ALICE    PAPE  ■-    INJURED 
FlNQEfi  .  NAIL  —    BEG     "PARDON, 
FINGER 

NAN 

{Continued  from  page  20) 
By  doing  all  sorts  of  things  for  the  next 
three  weeks,  she  managed  to  earn  enough  for 
the  needed  dance  frock  and  slippers,  and  her 
quick  fingers  repaired  and  remade  her  ward- 
robe till  she  felt  it  was  suitable.  At  last  the 
wonderful  time  came,  and  she  was  at  the  Car- 


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nival.  Frolic  after  frolic,  dance  after  dance, 
wonderful  sports  in  the  snow — every  minute 
indescribably  happy.  And  Nan  and  Jack  be- 
gan drawing  off  more  by  themselves,  with  an 
air  of  "two  is  company,  three  is  a  crowd." 
All  too  soon  came  the  last  night  and  the 
last  dance,  and  afterwards,  as  they  stood  to- 
gether in  a  sheltered  alcove  she  said,  "Well,  I 
have  never  known  such  happy  days  in  my 
whole  life,  Jack,  and  I  can  never  hope  to  thank 
you  for  all  this." 

"Did  you  really  like  it,  Nan?"  he  asked. 
"Was  it  just  the  dancing  and  coasting  that 
you  liked?" 

"No,  Jack,"  answered  the  girl  in  a  low  tone. 

"Nan,  dear,"  said  Jack,  unfastening  his 
AKE  pin  with  fumbling  fingers,  "will  you 
wear  this?" 

"Br-r-r-r"  rang  the  bell.  Eleanor  stirred 
and  rubbed  her  eyes. 

"Oh,  to-day's  the  day,"  she  cried.  "And 
so  it  was  all  a  dream !  I  wonder'  if  I'll  really 
have  the  happy  ending?" 

H.  Westervelt. 


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N^mtott  ®ntsi  dnrnpatuj 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-1 


Telephone,  Richmond  731-732 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL 


F.  M.  SCOBORI^ 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7  New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 
(NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,   MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 

HOTEL  SUPPLIES 


57  and  58  N.  Market  St. 


Boston 


LEATHER    NOVELTIES 

Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 

Hand  Bags 
Jewel  Cases 
Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape  Gloves   at  $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


60  Franklin  Street  | 

near  Washington  Street    ) 


BOSTON 


P.  P  ADAMS 

Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 

business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

Best-Known     Shopping 

Place 

Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to    139   Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


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Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92  Bedford  Street,  Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 
12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  2811 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 

TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


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PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for    those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place        15  West  Street 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital  paid  in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Produce 

Nos.  88,    90   and    92,    16    and    17    North   Side 
Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

W.  S.  GLIDDEN,  Pres.  H.    F.   RICE,   Vice-Pres. 

C.  H.  CUMMING,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT  P.  SMITH         GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mgr. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil   Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


Mxiixmnj 

DISTINCTIVE    STYLES 
DRESS    AND    SPORT    WEAR 

Unmett  a  Gloats 

Domes'  ic  and  English  Manufacture 

POLO    COATS  LEATHER    COATS 

RAIN    COATS 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter-Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established  1640 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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NEW 


PLAID 
SKIRTS 

$25.00 


Box  plaited  sknts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS   AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


L  P.  Hollander  Co, 

MISSES'  AND   YOUNG    LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -       -       Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 

Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


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2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


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(  G.   Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :   Beach   1561 


ax  Brothers 

TZomsts 

143  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


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ARE 

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Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE   PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipt 

Packed   in    Stone  Jars 

A.   T-  BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 
Send   for  price   list   of  over  60   kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
Ityarmarist 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -         $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor  Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.  BERMAN,  Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299   Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newlon  West  965-J 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies '    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresses 

303  AUBURN  ST.,  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 

AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine.  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1 882  Incorporated  1 904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach   1 45 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 
48  &  49  India  Street  Boston 


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Vol.  xxxxv 


No.  7 


APRIL,  1920 


LASELL   LEAVES 


Our  Shopping  Counselor 

Will  gladly  give  you  expert  aid  and  sound  advice  in  planning 

Your  Summer  Wardrobe 

Outfitting  for  camp  life  is  only  one  special  feature  of  her  service 
Setde  the  clothes  problem  before  warm  weather  and  avoid  that  pre-vacation  rush. 
Have  it  all  off  your  mind  early  this  year,  and  know  the  joy  of  hats,  coats,  suits,  dresses 
and  shoes,  all  chosen  with  that  correct  relation  to  one  another  which  is  the  basic  prin- 
ciple of  being  well  dressed  without  undue  extravagance 

Our  Counselor  will  save  you  Energy,  Time  and  Money 


At  your  service  daily 


Gown  Salon — Second  Floor — Main  Store 


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Boston's  —  and  New  England's — Greatest  Store 


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New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 

Diamonds 

Silver  Goods 

Leather  Goods 

Watches 

Fancy  Bead  Chains                Fountain  Pens 

Bracelet  Watches 

Roman  Pearls 

Chafing  Dishes 

Platinum  Jewelry 

Cameo  Brooches 

Percolators 

Green  Gold  Jewelry 

Vanity  Cases 

Parisian  Ivory 
Ebony  Goods 

Gold  Pocket  Knives 

Doreen  Boxes 

Gold  Pencils 

Photo  Frames 

Panel  Mirrors 

Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 

Our    Watch    and    Jewelry    Repair     Departments    do    the    best 

work  at  very   low  price* 

Engraving  Department 

Plate  and    100     Visiting     Cards,     Script     $2.75 
Plate   and    100   Visiting   Cards,   Old   Eng.   $4.75 

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LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


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Tel.  Beach  2687 


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New  York 


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Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting  and  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  on- 
looker say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness  !  " — and  also  to 
our  mind  a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price, 
AS  OURS  DOES. 
WE  TAKE  PLEASURE  IN  ANNOUNCING  TO  THE  STUDENTS 
OF  LASELL  OUR  NEW  AND  EXCLUSIVE  PARIS  ETCHING 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Dress-smartness  is  not  merely  Style  —  it  is  Style  plus 
Good  Taste,  and  entirely  governed  by  the  latter. 
Slattery  Suits,  Coats,  Gowns  and  Accessories  for  women 
and  misses  are  notably  individual,  planned  to  fit  various 
types  —  yet  always  exclusive  and  of  refined  design. 
From  Hats  to  Hosiery,  from  Furs  to  the  lightest  Fan 
for  evening,  the  woman's  wants  are  considered. 

Betty  Wales  Frocks  Are  More  Delight- 
ful   This    Season     Than    Ever    Before. 


E.T.  SLATTERY  CO. 

TREMONT  STREET  -  BOSTON 

Opposite  cBoston  Common 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Chenille  Rugs  and  Speed 

T"HE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.     If  you  desire  to  adorn  a  room  o 


HE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.     If  you  desire  to  adorn  a  room  or  hall  or  stairway 
with  these  superb  made- to- order  Rugs,    come    and    see    us   as   soon   as  possible,  as  some 
time  will  be  required. 

We  can  show  you  samples  of  all  colors  and  designs.  Our  know-how  men  will  take 
the  measurements  and  advise  as  to  tone  effects.     The  mills  will  do  the  rest. 

Plain  colors  with  two-tone  band  borders  are  favorites.  Speaking  of  plain  colors,  here 
are  a  few  of  the  many  —  grey,  blue,  green,  wistaria,  camel,  rose,  sand,  lavender,  cocoa,  taupe 
faun,  mulberry,  mole,   cafe-au-lait,  putty. 

These  made-to-measure  Rugs  are  seamless  up  to  thirty  feet  width.     Good  for  any  room 

[jS      and  good  the  year  round.     Soft   as   velvet  under  foot;   yet   last   for   years   and   vears.     Wide 

nl      „„„„  0f 


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range 


prices. 


John  H.  Pray  &  Sons  Co. 

646  Washington  St.,  Opp.  Boylston,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson&  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


oSS 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


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BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
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Vol.  XX XXV         LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE  66,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  APRIL,  1920  No.  7 

Published  Monthly   from   October  to    June    by   the   Lasell    Seminary   Students. 

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CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE 4 

LITERARY 

The  Quarrel E.  Weil  5 

Marse'   Tom /.  Russell  6 

El  Santo  Oscuro K.  MacDonald  7 

EDITORIAL 8 

LOCALS 9 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 12 

PERSONALS ■ 13 

JOKES •  19 

EXCHANGES 21 

SUPPLEMENT 22 


THE  LEAVES  STAFF 


>£^. 


THE  QUARREL 


The  quarrel  between  Frances'  beautiful 
Steinway  baby  grand  piano  and  her  new 
Aeolian  Vocalion  has  gone  far  enough.  In 
fact,  it  has  gone  too  far.  Therefore,  I  have 
appointed  myself  referee  between  these  foun- 
tains of  melody  and  shall  try  to  settle  the  argu- 
ment quickly,  satisfactorily,  and  definitely  be- 
fore Frances  comes  home.  She  must  not 
know  that  there  have  been  words  between 
her  two  most  beloved  possessions. 

The  responsibility  for  this  quarrel  I  feel  is 
mine,  because  it  was  I  who  thoughtlessly  re- 
marked one  day  that  I  would  rather  dance  to 
the  Vocalion  music  than  to  the  strains  of  the 
piano.  Nothing  was  said  at  the  time,  but  sev- 
eral hours  after  I  had  gone  to  bed,  I  was  sud- 
denly and  rudely  awakened  by  one  of  Frances' 
best  records,  "The  Mad  Scene"  from  Lucia, 
which  hit  me  over  my  left  eye  and  almost 
blinded  me.  At  the  same  time  my  musical 
sense  was  irreparably  injured  by  a  painfully 
discordant  note  on  the  beautiful  Steinway. 
These  preliminaries  were  bad  enough,  but 
nothing  in  comparison  with  the  quarrel  which 
followed.  The  piano  began  it.  She  uncere- 
moniously vindicated  herself,  despite  the  fact 
that  she  had  not  really  been  accused  of  lack  of 
usefulness,  saying  that  any  person  could  put  a 
record  011  a  mechanical  instrument  like  the 
Aeolian  Vocalion,  and  without  even  winding 
the  machine  could  amuse  others;  but  that  it 
required  ability,  training  and  ambition  to 
amuse  and  delight  people  by  playing  the  piano. 
She  continued  with  unrhythmic  velocity  and 


noticeable  harshness  of  tone,  unworthy  of  a 
Steinway,  that  people  who  played  a  piece  on 
her  gave  the  one  and  only  satisfying  interpre- 
tation that  really  cultured  musical  critics  al- 
ways look  for.  Even  a  wrong  note  on  the 
piano  adds  to  the  variety,  a  variety  never  ob- 
tained from  the  mechanically  perfected  vic- 
trola.  The  piano  stopped  because  she  was 
getting  badly  out  of  tune. 

The  Vocalion  then  retorted  that  just  be- 
cause of  his  simplicity  he  was  in  demand,  and 
that,  aside  from  his  simplicity  of  operation,  he 
had  a  wider  range  of  talent,  making  it  pos- 
sible for  all  the  best  artists  in  the  musical 
world  to  be  heard,  and  heard  by  all  and  any- 
where, and  always  playing,  too,  at  their  best, 
just  as  they  had  been  at  the  time  the  record 
was  made.  The  Vocalion,  who  did  not  have 
to  be  wound,  continued  without  any  sign  of 
effort  that  he  was  an  advance  in  invention, 
marked  an  improvement  on  the  piano,  because 
people  who  were  not  gifted  enough  to  amuse 
themselves  on  a  piano,  or  fortunate  enough  to 
have  others  amuse  them  at  will,  found  in  the 
Vocalion  an  ever-ready  source  of  pleasure  and 
a  variable  pleasure  at  that. 

Then  all  was  quiet.  Was  the  Vocalion  quiet 
because  he  had  no  more  to  say?  Was  the 
piano  silent  because  she  had  ready  no  refuta- 
tion of  the  Vocalion's  argument?  I  know 
Frances  would  not  part  with  either  of  them 
in  preference  to  the  other.  She  is  equally 
fond  of  them  both. 

I  shall  assure  the  Vocalion  and  the  piano 
that  they  are  both  necessary  in  a  music-loving 
home.     The  piano  will,.  I  am  sure,  understand 


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her  own  limitations,  as  well  as  she  does  her 
powers,  and  the  Vocalion — well,  he  is  a  rea- 
sonable fellow,  though  he  doesn't  like  to  be 
discredited ;  and  he  actually  claims  the  piano 
as  a  family  relation  of  his. 

E.  Weil. 


MARSE'   TOM 


Darkness  was  closing  in  upon  the  traveler 
as  he  rode  cautiously  along  the  muddy  road 
in  that  far  southland.  "Not  much  chance  of 
finding  their  boasted  hospitality  in  this  for- 
saken   region !"   he   muttered. 

Out  of  the  night,  however,  there  came  the 
sound  of  a  darkey's  voice :  "You,  Jinny,  step 
cairful  thar.     G'wan  along." 

The  owner  of  the  voice  soon  appeared. 
Short,  very  black,  his  white  hair  framing  a 
jolly  wrinkled  face,  he  was  a  typical  old  south- 
ern darkey.  He  pulled  up  the  ragged-looking 
horse  with  a  "Whoa,  thar!"  at  the  stranger's 
request. 

"Uncle,"  called  the  man,  "I'd  like  to  find  a 
place  to  sleep  to-night.    Do  you  know  of  any  ?" 

The  old  negro  climbed  laboriously  out  of  the 
dilapidated  carriage,  hobbled  across  the  road 
and  peered  intently  into  the  stranger's  face. 
Understanding  that  he  was  being  inspected  for 
some  particular  reason,  he  smiled  kindly  down 
on  his  questioner. 

"Deed  I  do,  Suh,"  the  old  man  beamed, 
seemingly  satisfied  with  his  inspection.  "I'se 
gwine  to  de  Big  House  now.  You  know  de 
Big  House?  De  Missy'll  be  glad  to  'stend 
you  huh  hos — ptality.  You  climb  in  hyar. 
I'll  hitch  yo'  hoss  to  de  kerridge." 

He  did  as  he  said  and  once  again  Jinny  set 
out  on  her  weary  journey  to  "de  Big  House." 

"Whar  bouts  does  you-all  come  fom?"  in- 
quired the  old  negro. 

"I'm  from  Columbus,  Ohio.  I  represent  the 
Standard  Oil  Company.     My  name  is — " 

"Neber  min'.  I'll  jest  call  you  Stranger. 
Mah  name's  Black  Tom.  I'se  named  arfter 
my  young  marster.  Marse  Tom'n  me  was 
baun  on  de  same  day  and  ole  Marster  named 


us  bof  Thomas.  I  wuz  Marse  Tom's  body  ser- 
vant. We  alius  went  together.  When  we  wuz 
young  uns  we'd  hunt  'n  fish  'n  play  'round. 
When  he'd  growed  up,  I'd  go  wid  him  ovah  to 
Morrison's  plantation  to  see  Miss  Virgie.  My 
gal  wuz  cook  foah  Missus  Morrison.  Yas, 
suh,  I'se  alius  right  thar  wid  Marse  Tom." 
The  old  darkey  stared  dreamily  into  the 
darkness  ahead. 

"Yes  ?"  encouraged  the  Stranger. 
•  "Ah  guess  ah  wuz  a-dreamin'.  I  kin  see 
Marse  Tom  now,  straight  'n  tall  as  one  of 
them  'ar  youn'  saplins,  in  his  gray  uniform, 
wid  his  sword  by  his  side.  'Li'l  Captain' 
they  called  him  at  Richmond.  Captain  durin' 
de  Wah.  De  Civil  Wah.  Old  Marster,  he's 
too  ole  to  go  but  Marse  Tom  tells  him,  'Ah'll 
take    your    trust,    Father.      Ah'll    uphold    the 

.  honor  of  the  Warin's  for  the  dear  old  South.' 
Porr  old  Mistus  was  might'  nigh  daid  wid 
grief,  but  she  tole  him  to  go.  Miss  Virgie,  she 
trowed  bof  her  ahms  'round  his  neck  and  said 
somethin'  real  low-like  in  his  ear.    Then  Marse 

•Tom,  he  smile  real  big  and  say,  'We'll  whip 
those  Yankees,  Honey,  and  then  I'll  come  back 
to  you.'  He  went  to  lead  his  men  den.  Coss  I 
went  wid  him.  Dey  all  lubbed  him  caze  he 
wuz  so  kin'  'n  brave.  He'd  laugh  'n  joke,  'n 
then  lead  'em  into  de  fight.  He  wuz  a-leadin' 
'em  one  day ;  de  bullets  wuz  a-whizzin'  'round 
him,  and  he  jest  dropped  down.  My  Marse 
Tom  wuz  daid.  They,  the  General,  'n  all,  tole 
me  to  take  'im  home.  So  I  did.  It  wan't 
much  like  de  ole  plantation.  All  de  niggahs 
wuz  gone,  de  trees  cut  down,  weeds  eber'- 
where.  Ole  Marster  'n  Mistus  was  so  old  'n 
feeble  dat  dey  looked  like  shadders.  Miss  Vir- 
gie wuz  a-takin'  keer  of  'em.  They  buried 
him  in  de  ole  graveyard.  It  wan't  long,  then, 
till  ole  Mistus  'n  then  ole  Marster  followed 
him.  I  been  wid  Miss  Virgie  dese  years. 
Marse  Tom  would  a-wanted  me  to." 

The  old  horse  turned  in  at  a  gate  and 
plodded  down  the  long  lane  lined  by  trees  to 
the  side  of  a  large  old-fashioned  house.  There 
he  stopped. 

"Tom — Black  Tom,"  called  a  voice  of  infi- 


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nite  sweetness  and  clearness. 

"I'se  coming,  Missy,  I'se  coming." 

/.  Russell. 


EL  SANTO  OSCURO 


In  the  crumbling,  ancient  chapel  of  Pere- 
quina,  hidden  near  the  entrance  of  an  old 
Boca  Mina,  is  enshrined  the  original  wooden 
carving  of  the  famous  Black  Saint  of  Guana- 
juato. 

The  quaint,  crude  figure  stands  in  the  dim 
half-light  of  the  chancel.  The  surroundings 
serve  to  give  to  the  menacing  figure  of  the 
Black  Saint  the  effect  of  something  unreal  and 
unearthly.  He  stands  with  arms  raised  heaven- 
ward in  supplication.  On  the  face  is  stamped 
an  expression  of  hate  and  lust  for  revenge. 
This  is  all  cunningly,  though  rudery,  por- 
trayed in  the  polished  wood. 

The  story  of  this  shrine  goes  back  to  the 
days  of  the  ill-fated  Maximilian.  It  is  said 
to  have  been  fashioned  by  a  wood-carver 
whose  daughter  was  carried  away  by  a  com- 
pany of  the  emperor's  soldiers.  In  a  passion 
of  rage  and  sorrow  the  wood-carver  sought 
out  the  leader  of  this  band  and  murdered  him. 
With  the  blood  of  the  dead  man  he  then  cov- 
ered the  surface  of  the  figure.  At  first  the 
statue  was  called  the  Santo  del  Sangre,  but 
soon  it  became  known  as  the  Black  Saint  on 
account   of   the  powers   attributed   to   it. 

From  the  claw-like  hands  are  hung  multi- 
tudes of  various  colored  ribbons,  each  of 
which  has  a  different  meaning.  Many  of  the 
superstitious  take  this  method  of  destroying 
their  enemies  and  nothing  is  more  dreaded 
than  the  curse  of  El  hist  on  del  Santo  Oscuro. 
First  one  must  get  the  height  of  one's  victim 
and  then  hang  the  ribbon  at  that  length  from 
the  clutching  fingers  of  the  Saint.  A  red  rib- 
bon signifies  disease ;  a  yellow,  the  curse  of 
fever;  a  black,  death;  and  a  white — the  most 
dreaded — leprosy. 

The  superstitious  belief  in  this  ancient  leg- 
end is  one  of  the  weapons  used  by  the  un- 
scrupulous churchmen  to  extract  money  from 


the  ignorant ;  for  the  priests  claim  that  they 
alone  may  grant  protection  from  the  curse  of 
El  Santo   Oscuro. 

K.  MacDonald. 


SPRING  SONG 


'Softly  at  dawn  a  whisper  stole 

Down  from  the  Green  House  on  the  hill, 
Enchanting  many  a  ghostly  bole 

And  wood-song  with  the  ancient  thrill. 
Gossiping  on  the  country-side, 

Spring  and  the  wandering  breezes  say, 
God  has  thrown  Heaven  open  wide 

And  let  the  thrushes  out  today." 

William  Griffith. 


SPRING 


''Blossom  on  the  plum. 
Wild  wind  and  merry ; 
Leaves  upon  the  cherry, 
And  one  swallow  come. 
Red  windy  dawn, 
Swift  rain  and  sunny ; 
Wild  bees  seeking  honey, 
Crocus  on  the  lawn ; 
Blossom  on  the  plum. 
Grass  begins  to  grow. 
Dandelions  come; 
Snowdrops  haste  to  go 
After  last  month's  snow  ; 
Rough  winds  beat  and  blow 
Blossom  on  the  plum." 


— Ex. 


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EDITORIALS 


The  good  old  Charles  is  once  more  a  river, 
not  an  ice  bank.  Soon  beside  the  flowing 
waters  will  be  seen  the  cool  banks  covered 
with  green  foliage  and  shaded  by  leafy  trees. 
With  Easter  vacation  over,  canoeing  starts 
again,  but  this  time  a  different  spirit  prevails 
because  it  means  both  pleasure  and  work. 
Those  who  cannot  make  crew  are  dreaming  of 
happy  hours  just  paddling  around  and  picnick- 
ing, while  those  who  go  out  for  crew  are  look- 
ing forward  with  eagerness  to  hours  of  hard 
practice,  which  is  not,  however,  merely  work. 
This  year  the  sophomores  as  well  as  the  se- 
niors and  juniors  are  to  have  a  crew.  We  are 
all  pulling  strong  for  crew.  It's  going  to  be 
the  best  and  most  exciting  year  yet  on  the  old 
river. 

At  last  the  snow  is  gone ;  everywhere  little 
green  shoots  are  starting  up  and  trees  are  bud- 
ding. Now  a  walk  can  be  taken  without  en- 
dangering your  life  either  by  slipping  or 
drowning.  Everyone  should  take  advantage  of 
this  bracing  weather  by  being  out  of  doors  as 
much  as  possible.  Fifteen  minutes  around 
the  campus  before  breakfast  does  wonders, 
It  gives  "pep"'  both  physically  and  mentally. 
Then,  too,  for  those  who  wish  to  gain  or  lose 
avoirdupois,  it  acts  splendidly.  In  these  days 
of  spring,  it  is  naturally  hard  to  study ;  but 
with  the  out-door  exercise  in  the  morning  and 
in  the  afternoon  we  really  ought  to  be  able  to 
stick  to  the  old  grind  and  come  out  of  this  last 
lap  with  flying  colors.  The  afternoons  of  out- 
door exercise  could  be  thoroughly  enjoyed  by 
long  walks  around  Auburndale  and  its  vicinity. 
There  are  many  places  of  natural  beauty  and 
some  of  historical  interest.  Become  ac- 
quainted with  all  these  sites.  Then  you  will 
come  back  ready  to  say,  "Isn't  it  great  to  be 
alive !" 

Mile.  LeRoyer  has  received  the  following 
interesting  letter : 

28  Rue  35me 

Savannah,  Ga., 
Le   27   Fevrier,    1920. 
Ma  chere  Mile.  LeRoyer: 

Est-ce  que  vous  vous  souvenez  d'une  de  vos 


eleves  d'il  y  a  longtemps  ?  De  Clifford 
Dasher?  Eh,  bien,  c'est  elle  qui  vous  ecrit 
maintenant.  II  y  a  plusieurs  jours  que  j'ai 
recu  le  numero  de  Decembre  de  notre  "Lasell 
Leaves,"  et  j'ai  lu  avec  baucoup  d'interet  le 
dessein  des  jeunes  filles  a  present  a  la  pension, 
c'est  a  dire,  de  construire  "une  petite  Lasell" 
dans  une  ville  de  France.  Puis-je  avoir  une 
petite  parte  avec  les  demoiselles?  Je  vous  en- 
voie  mon  mandat  pour  cinq  dollars.  Voulez- 
vous  le  donner  s'il  vous  plait,  au  tresorier  du 
fond. 

Je  voudrais  bien,  chere  "Mamselle",  revenir 
quelque  jour  a  Lasell,  et  aussi,  je  desire  que 
seul  enfant,  il  a  maintenant  dix-neuf  ans,  et 
il  est  au  college  dans  la  classe  "Junior."  II 
sait  bien  la  langue  Francaise  et  cette  annee  il 
etudie  aussi  l'espagnol,  avec  d'autres  choses. 
II  dit  qu'il  sera  avocat,  comme  son  pere. 
C'est  bien,  n'est  pas  ? 

Pardonnez,  s'il  vous  plait,  mes  erreurs.  J'ai 
oublie  beaucoup  mon  Francais,  mais  je  n'oub- 
lierais  jamais  mes  heures  agreables  dans  vos 
classes. 

Votre  amie, 
(Mrs.  W.  B.)  Clifford  D.  Stephens,  '98. 

In  sending  this  letter  with  her  check,  Clif- 
ford Dasher-Stephens  has  contributed  more 
than  material  help  to  the  cause.  She  has  given 
us  a  wonderful  uplift  and  we  feel  certain  now 
that  Lasell  will  bear  her  name  in  a  far  away 
little  village  school  where  small  children  will 
read  her  name  and  learn  that  "over  there"  be-  . 
yond  the  Atla'ntic  the  sisters  of  the  American 
boys  who  have  stayed  on  the  soil  of  -France 
are  working  to  bring  education  and  peace  to 
the  scattered  children  of  the  devastated  dis- 
tricts. 

Elizabeth  Russell  is  the  Treasurer  of  the 
"French  Restoration  Fund"  at  Lasell. 

The  following  report  from  Lasell  is  given : 
From  the  Studio  Club,  Christmas  Cards  $17.00 
French  I.  29.95 

French  II.  148.77 

French  Play  95.00 

Two  thousand  dollars  are  needed  to  es- 
tablish a  school.  Everyone  should  consider  it 
a  privilege  to  contribute  to  such  a  cause. 


Mr.  Hammali  of  India,  who  is  now  an  in- 
structor of  philosophy  at  Harvard,  spoke  to 
us  at  Vespers  on  March  14.  He  has  been  in 
this  country  two  years  but  he  claims  that  he 
belongs  to  the  American  race,  since  both  the 
Indians  and  the  Americans  came  from  the 
Aryan  family.  He  first  told,  in  an  amusing 
way,  about  his  early  impressions  of  American 
customs.  Then  he  emphasized  the  part  India 
played  in  the  great  World  War.  Through  her 
steadfast  devotion  to  Great  Britain,  she  sent 
over  a  million  men  to  aid  in  the  struggle.  He 
believes  that  the  time  has  come  for  America 
and  India  to  get  together.  "If  only  India 
could  give  America  something  of  her  medita- 
tive spirit,  and  America  could  give  India  her 
progressive  energy,  how  wonderful  would  be 
the  results."  In  closing,  Mr.  Hammali  paid  a 
fine  tribute  to  the  work  of  American  mission- 
aries in  India. 

Vespers  on  Sunday,  March  21,  was  in  charge 
of  the  Missionary  Society.  Rev.  Henry  H. 
Crane  of  Newton  spoke  on  the  great  differ- 
ences there  should  be  between  Christians  and 
non-Christians,  and  explained  what  Christian- 
ity should  mean.  Jesus  was  very  different 
from  others  in  that  he  was  ever  unselfish,  for- 
giving and  loyal.  The  tendency  of  the  world 
is  to  turn  toward  the  non-essentials  while  the 


really  important  things  are  not  generally  con- 
sidered. In  closing,  Mr.  Crane  urged  that  we 
try  being  unselfish  for  a  day,  forgiving  for  a 
week,  and,  if  we  would  be  truly  different,  try 
being  utterly  loyal  to  our  friends. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  March  16,  we  all  had 
an  opportunity  to  hear  Dr.  Joel  Goldwaithe 
of  Boston  speak  at  the  Congregational 
Church.  Dr.  Goldwaithe  declares  that  proper 
physical  training  is  essential  as  a  basis  of 
health.  The  war  has  shown  how  poor  the 
development  of  the  body  really  is ;  for  in  Mas- 
sachusetts alone  46  per  cent  of  the  men  be- 
tween the  ages  of  nineteen  and  forty-five  were 
unfit  to  fight.  The  schools  have  an  important 
part  in  this  training,  for  good  posture  ought  to 
be  taught  to  the  little  folks  in  primary  grades. 
Once  a  child  learns  how  to  use  the  body,  he 
will  never  forget  it.  Athletics  is  a  splendid 
way  of  helping  this,  but  it  does  not  do  all. 
Physical  education  is  more  than  a  few  exer- 
cises ;  it  is  getting  the  individual  to  have  a 
sense  of  balance  and  to  follow  a  few  definite 
rules  of  posture ;  such  as,  "Chin  in,  chest  up, 
waist  in,  weight  on  the  balls  of  the  feet." 

Christian  Endeavor  on  March  19  was  led 
by  Helen  O'Brien.  Her  subject  was,  "By 
what  ways  we  make  our  character."  Our 
character  is  formed  in  part  by  our  choice  of 


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friends.  In  this  choosing  we  ought,  therefore, 
to  be  very  careful.  In  closing,  she  read  to  us 
a  poem  by  George  Eliot  which  emphasizes 
this  point.  Helen  Brooks  played  a  violin  solo 
during  this  meeting. 

On  March  20  one  of  the  best  parties  of  the 
year  was  given  by  the  Sophomores  to  the  Se- 
niors in  the  form  of  a  St.  Patrick's  dance. 
The  costumes  of  our  sister  class  were  indeed 
unique  with  all  their  fancy  ruffles  and  frills. 
The  decorations  of  balloons,  shamrock  and 
streamers  about  the  room  made  a  most  at- 
tractive setting.  Besides  the  costumes  and 
decorations  of  green,  the  ice  cream  and  heart 
cakes,  too,  were  imitations  in  color.  The  or- 
chestra was  particularly  good.  The  solo 
dances  by  "Frenchy"  Linnehan  and  the  read- 
ing by  Fanny  Brown  were  special  features  of 
this  well-planned  affair. 

Wednesday  evening,  March  24,  the  Orphean 
Club  gave  its  annual  concert.  This  concert, 
as  Miss  Potter  told  us  in  chapel,  is  one  of  the 
musical  events  of  the  school  year.  Much 
praise  is  due  to  the  girls  of  the  Club  as  well  as 
to  the  assisting  artists  and  to  the  conductor, 
Mr.  Henry  Dunham.  The  following  pleasing 
program  was  given : 

PRELUDE    (Piano  and  Organ)  Sindig 

Miss   Wagner   and   Mr.   Dunham 

a.  DAY  IS  AWAKENED  Grieg 

b.  WEEP    NO    MORE  Saar 

c.  EVE  BEEN  ROAMING  Horn 

Orphean   Club 

a.  THE  SHEPHERDESS  Horsman 

b.  SWEETHEART  Chadwick 

Miss  Dennis 

a.  DOWN  IN  THE  DEWY  DELL  Smart 

b.  TO  A  WILD  ROSE  McDowell 

Orphean  Club 
GALLIA  Gounod 

Orphean  Club  assisted  by  Miss  Dennis 
Monday,  March  22,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winsiow 
extended  the  hospitality  of  the  school  to  some 
members  of  the  Methodist  Women's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society.  At  3.30  we  all  met  in 
the  chapel  to  hear  a  very  interesting  lecture  by 
Dr.  Heath  of  Pekin,  China.  She  spoke  of  her 
experiences  as  a  doctor  among  the  Chinese 
people  and   told  us   about  the  great  need  of 


proper  medical  care.  We  were  glad  to  know 
that  a  medical  school  has  been  founded  where 
Chinese  girls  are  being  trained  to  become  doc- 
tors that  they  may  aid  their  own  people.  Other 
guests  of  the  day  were  Mrs.  Morgan,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Society;  Miss  Clementina  Butler 
from  India,  the  Secretary,  who  was  once  a 
Lasell  girl.  Special  guests  were  Madam  and 
Miss  Dewey  from  Turkey. 

On  Thursday  evening,  March  25,  exhibition 
exercises  in  wand  drill  tactics,  Indian  clubs, 
apparatus  work,  fancy  marching  and  dancing 
were  given  in  the  Gardner  gymnasium  by 
chosen  girls  from  the  gym  classes.  The  "Ho- 
i-las" given  to  Miss  Woodward  and  Miss 
Boynton  were  well-deserved.  The  girls,  too, 
must  have  worked  faithfully.  The  whole  pro- 
gram proved  that  "gym"  should  have  proper 
attention  and  respect. 


THE  WASHINGTON  PARTY 


Friday  evening.  March  twenty-sixth,  Miss 
Potter  and  a  party  of  fourteen  sportive  girls 
left  the  South  Station,  Boston,  for  Fall  River, 
where  they  took  the  night  boat  to  New  York. 
Here  only  a  little  time  was  spent,  as  the  group 
had  to  leave  at  ten  o'clock  on  Saturday  morn- 
ing. 

At  Philadelphia  the  company  took  an  auto- 
mobile trip  through  the  city.  They  saw  'Inde- 
pendence Hall  and  the  United  States  Mint, 
and  also  enjoyed  a  drive  about  Fairmount 
Park.  Then  the  hungry  crowd  partook  of  a 
cloying  lunch  at  the  historical,  but  comfortable, 
Hotel  Rittenhouse.  A  short  time  was  also 
spent  in  looking  about  Wanamaker's  attractive 
shop. 

The  evening  of  the  twenty-seventh  found  the 
party  in  Washington.  The  quarters  were  at 
the  splendid  new  Raleigh  Hotel.  Here  they 
enjoyed  marvelous  rooms  and  fine  meals. 
Don't  the  words  "waffles"  and  "oyster  cock- 
tail" make  your  mouth  water? 

The  next  four  days  were  spent  in  seeing 
our  attractive  capital.  On  Palm  Sunday  the 
girls   heard  the   Bishop   of   Washington   at   a 


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service  in  a  quaint  Episcopal  Church.  In  the 
afternoon  they  took  an  automobile  trip  through 
the  city  to  Rock  Creek  Park,  the  Zoological 
Park  and  Georgetown.  Crossing  the  Potomac 
to  Arlington,  they  visited  the  Curtis-Lee  Man- 
sion. Monday  was  devoted  to  seeing  the 
House  Building,  the  Congressional  Library  and 
to  visiting  the  Senate  and  House  of  Represen- 
tatives while  in  session.  The  party  also  took 
a  side  glance  at  the  Supreme  Court,  where  a 
lively  discussion  on  National  Prohibition  was 
on.  The  girls  will  not  soon  forget  their  ride 
in  the  senators'  unique  subway  car  or  their 
luncheon  in  the  Senate  Cafe. 


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NM 

The  following  day  they  saw  the  Corcoran 
Art  Gallery,  the  Pan-American  Building,  the 
Smithsonian  Institute  and  climbed  the  Wash- 
ington Monument.  They  also  made  a  trip 
by  trolley  to  the  beautiful,  typically  Virginian 
home  of  Washington,  Mount  Vernon.  The 
fourth  and  last  day  they  visited  the  Bureau  of 
Engraving  and  Printing,  noting  the  exacting 
system  of  the  latter.  Of  interest  also  was  their 
glimpse  of  the  tavern  in  which  Lincoln  died. 

As  to  the  evenings,  several  were  pleasantly 
spent  at  the  theatres  with  Washington  friends, 
who  showed  the  party  much  hospitality.  The 
last  evening  some  of  the  girls  enjoyed  an  in- 
formal dansant,  given  by  the  members  of  the 
Yale  baseball  team,  and  glee  club. 

April  first  the  party  regretfully  left  the  most 
beautiful  city  after  a  happy  and  interesting 
week,  the  sunny  days  of  which  helped  in  mak- 
ing the   excursions   essy   and   delightful. 


The  party  will  not  soon  forget  the  generous 
and  efficient  courtesies  of  the  aides-de-camp  of 
the  Senator  from  Vermont,  and  of  the  Con- 
gressman from  Massachusetts.  Then,  too, 
they  are  very  grateful  to  Miss  Potter  and  Dr. 
Winslow  for  securing  passes  which  enabled 
them  to  see  additional  points  of  interest.  One 
and  all  agreed  that  Miss  Potter  was  just  the 
kind  of  inspiring  chaperon  for  such  a  trip. 
The  girls,  however,  expressed  their  opinion 
thus  :  "Miss  Potter's  a  peach  !"  (I  trust  Miss 
Potter  will  not  need  to  blush,  for  then  every- 
one will  take  the  remark  literally.) 

The  lucky  girls  who  sailed  under  Miss  Pot- 
ter's captaincy  were :  Ruth  Hayden,  Mary 
Hubbard,  Eleanor  Knight  and  friend,  Eliza- 
beth Miller,  Emma  Murchison,  Catherine 
Murchison,  Gertrude  Merritt,  Jean  Gilchrist, 
Suzita  Espy,  Hilda  Brekke,  Helen  Cresse, 
Gladys  Williams,  Florence  Mann,  Violet  Corn- 
ley. 


ATHLETICS 


Basket  ball  has  been  the  chief  thing  in  the 
line  of  athletics  this  last  month.  It  is  hard 
to  realize  that  the  season  is  almost  over. 

The  first  game  was  the  Junior-Senior, 
played  on  Feb.  27,  with  the  Juniors  losing  to 
the  Seniors  17-11.  The  line-up  was  as  fol- 
lows : 

Seniors 

Forwards 

James  Griffin 

Centers 

Rice  Crane  Hussey 

Guards 

Patten  Florence 

Juniors 

Fonvards 

Rawlings  Knight 

Centers 
Smith  Doane 

Guards 
Temple  Jackson 

Muriel  James  '20  (that's  Jimmy)  was 
elected  captain  of  the  Varsity  Team,  of  which 
we  are  very  proud. 

The  first  game  that  the  Lasell  team  played 
was  with  Sargent,  March  12.     The  captain's 


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two  wishes  of  ''Lasell  being  able  to  score" 
and  "Sargsnt  not  scoring  over  100"  were  grat- 
ified, the  score  being  85 — 4.  Though  the  score 
looks  discouraging  (here  was  much  learned  by 
the  game.  Line-up  as  follows  : 
Lasell 
Forwards 

Rawlings  James 

Centers 

Hussey 
Guards 

Strebeigh 

Sargent 

Forwards 

Fogg 

Centers 

Klein 

Guards 

Grundley  Sprague 


Strebeigh 


Rice 


Patten 


Rauntree 


Nelson 


Lehr 
Garnett 


MURIEL  JAMES,  Basket  Ball  Captain 

The  next  game  was  Newton  at  Newton  on 
the  23rd.  This  was  a  fast  game  and  showed 
clean  playing  on  both  sides.  Some  excellent 
passing  was  done  and  good  team  work  was 
shown.  Strebeigh,  James,  and  Kent  did  some 
fine  shooting  for  the  blue  and  white.  Smith, 
Daniel  and  Hughes  showed  up  well  on  the 
Newton  team.  Though  the  game  was  played 
with  nine  on  a  side  and  the  gym  much  larger 
than  ours,  it  did  not  seem  to  faze  our  team. 
Girls,  we  expect  a  return  game  with  Newton, 


so  plan  to  come  and  see  an  interesting  contest. 
Line-up  as  follows  :    ' 

Lasell 

Forwards 

James  Kent  Strebeigh 

Centers 

Hussey  Griffin  Doane  Campbell 

Guards 

Rice  Strebeigh  Florence  Patten 

Newton 

Forwards 

Daniels 

Centers 

Doyle 

Guards 

Ronald    ' 


Hughes 

Zigler 

Guthe 


Smith 
Lucke 


Lihutly 


Everyone  is  looking  forward  to  spring  and 
the  crew  work,  and  as  we  have  some  fine 
swimmers  an  interesting  season  is  ahead. 

With  the  spring,  also,  comes  base-ball 
That  means  practise  soon  for  "The  Sparks" 
and  "The  Fliers"  of  which  Virginia  Walter 
and  Josephine  Florence  are  the  captains. 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 


The  Spring  session  finds  Woodland  Park 
pupils  enjoying  the  wide  grounds  which  sur- 
round the  school.  The  basket-ball  field  has 
been  newly  leveled  and  marked  and  the  teams 
under  Miss  Boynton's  coaching  are  becoming 
expert  at  basket  and  baseball.  Very  soon  the 
Kindergarten  and  lower  grades  will  begin  their 
gardens,  in  good  hope  that  many  warm  days 
will  bring  the  green  things  up  before  the  clos- 
ing of  the  term. 

Miss  Norton's  illness  and  consequent  resig- 
nation brought  sorrow  to  everyone  who  had 
been  associated  with  her.  Just  before  Easter 
she  left  for  her  home  in  Napa,  California, 
where  she  will  rest  for  the  remainder  of  the 
year.  We  are  very  happy  that  Gertrude  Bull 
Lea,  Lasell  '09,  who  substituted  for  Miss  Nor- 
ton during  her  illness  here,  is  now  a  regular 
member  of  our  faculty. 

On  the  afternoon  of  March  11  the  pupils 
of  the  Music  department  gave  the  second  re- 
cital of  the  year.  A  goodly  company  of  guests 
listened   with    interest   to   the    following   pro- 


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1.  DUET  "ANDANTE"  Porter 

Catherine  Brown,  Miss  Bunting 

2.  MELODIE  James  Rogers 

Ada  Hanscom 

2.    THEME  FROM  HAYDN      arr.  Hauna  Schmitl 

Donald  Winslow 

4.  SONG  "THE  WIND"  Victor  Herbert 

Woodland   Park  Chorus 

5.  DING-DONG-BELL  Biedermann 

Harriet  Hanna 

6.  DUET— FESTIVAL  MARCH  Low 

Charlotte  Garner,  Miss  Bunting 

7.  GAVOTTE  James  Rogers 

Louisa  Mueller 

8.  LULLABY  Biedermann 

Marjorie  Winslow 

9.  COQUETTRY  Reinhold 

Sara  Hurst 

10.  FLUTTERING  LEAVES  Rolling 

Katherine  Braithwaite 

11.  SONG— "POUTS  AND  SMILES"   van  Rennes 

Woodland  Park  Chorus 

12.  CURIOUS  STORY  Heller 

Gwendolyn   MacDonald 

13.  MINUET  IN  E  FLAT  MAJOR  Mozart 

Erna  Schmidt 

14.  LOVE-SONG  Cadman 

Julia  Plunkett 

15.  MARCHE  MIGNON  Poldini 

Esther  Curtis 
Saturday,  April  the  tenth,  occurred  the  first 

of  a  series  of  trips  planned  for  the  remainder 
of  the  spring  term. 

The  members  of  the  eighth  grade,  accom- 
panied by  Mrs.  Furlong  and  Mr.  Towne  went 
by  automobile  to  Salem.  All  fully  enjoyed  the 
historical  and  literary  points  of  interest  of  the 
quaint  old  city  with  its  narrow  streets,  its 
beautiful  old  colonial  homes  and  gardens,  and 
its  museum  filled  with  priceless  collections.  All 
revelled  in  the  delights  of  Miss  Hepzibah's 
penny  shop,  of  the  witchery  pervading  the  Se- 
cret Stairway  of  the  "House  of  Seven  Gables," 
and  lastly,  of  the  ride  homeward,  for  miles 
along  the  ocean  front,  glorious  with  the  beauty 
of  early  New  England  spring-time. 


DR.   PELOUBET 


The  flowers — the  fragrant  little  crocuses 
and  hyacinths  are  all  abloom  just  outside  his 
study  window.  Don't  you  remember  how  they 
were  always  the  first  flowers  to  open  in  our 


village  gardens  ? 


blossoms,  and  one  and  ano'.her  of  us  are  ex- 
claiming just  as  we  have  in  other  years, 
''Have  you  seen  Dr.  Peloubet's  flowers?" 
And  all  winter  long  the  early  risers  in  Brag- 
don  Hall  have  watched  for  the  glowing  morn- 
ing fire  on  the  hearth  stone  in  his  library,  and 
not  once  been  disappointed. 

At  Christmas  tide  our  Glee  Club  girls,  as 
has  been  their  custom  in  other  years,  sang 
their  carols  at  the  hospitable  door  of  the  Pe- 
loubet  home,  and  the  gracious  host  came  out 
to  greet  and  thank  them. 

Dr.  Peloubet's  flowers,  fireside  and  friend- 
ship— how  much  they  have  meant  to  Lasell  in 
all  the  years,  and  will  mean  always  in  the 
lives  of  those  of  us  who  were  privileged  to 
know  him.  Many  will  tell  of  the  great  life 
work  of  this  distinguished  Bible  scholar,  who, 
like  Wesley,  had  the  whole  world  for  his 
parish,  but  we,  "the  school  girls  across  the 
way"  to  whom  he  was  always  so  friendly  and 
kind,  wish  to  bring  our  tribute  of  appreciation 
and  to  thank  God  for  the  friendship  of  this 
distinguished  Christian  scholar,  who  always 
"had  time  for  us,"  and  whose  loving  neighbor- 
liness  as  well  as  his  words  of  wisdom  have 
proved  a  blessing  to  scores  of  Lasell  girls. 


It  was  only  just  a  few  days  ago  the  snow 
was  banked  high  in  this  dear  neighbor's  yard, 
and   now  in   its   place   are   the   bright   spring 


The  fair  spring  days  are  with  us  again  and 
as  usual  this  bright  season  brings  with  it 
wedding  announcements  of  former  Lasell 
girls.  This  time  the  interesting  list  contains 
the  following : 

On  the  twenty-fourth  of  February  Margery 
Ellen  Deffenbaugh,  '18,  became  the  bride  of 
Dr.  George  A.  Hoop.  They  are  now  at  home 
in  Hickory,  Pennsylvania. 


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The  twelfth  of  March  was  the  wedding  day 
of  Juliette  Rhoda  Rideout  when  she  became 
Mrs.  Claude  Eli  Smithers. 

Genevra  Hanmer  Strong  and  Mr.  Wood- 
ward Livingston  Harlow  were  united  in  mar- 
riage on  the  thirteentn  of  March.  They  are 
now  at  home  at  318  Norton  St.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of 
Gertrude  Casselberry  Edwards  and  Mr.  John 
Alpheus  Vanderslice  has  recently  been  made. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  Edmond  Houghton 
announce  the  marriage  of  their  daughter, 
Helen  Marie,  '16,  to  Mr.  Robert  Phelps  Gil- 
man,  on  April  third. 

Our  congratulations  are  extended  to  these 
dear  young  people. 

It  was  Mildred  Goodall,  TO,  who  in  her  de- 
lightful letter  to  Dr.  W.inslow  spoke  of  having 
met  Lucy  Aldrich  Berston,  TO,  in  Palm  Beach 
and  shortly  following  this  bit  of  news  came  a 
letter  direct  from  this  same  Lucy  to  our  Prin- 
cipal. It  is  so  newsy  that  we  must  quote  a 
word  or  two.  Lucy  writes  from  Palm  Beach 
where  she  with  her  family  spends  most  of  the 
winter.  They  have  bought  a  cottage  in  this 
popular  resort  and  expect,  as  she  declares,  to 
spend  the  coming  winters  surrounded  by  their 
own  orange  and  cocoanut  palms.  She  further 
adds,  "In  looking  over  the  church  notices  one 
Sunday  I  saw  the  name  of  Sibyl  Webb  as 
soloist.  I  went  to  the  Holy  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church  to  see  if  it  could  be  our  Sibyl  Webb 
of  Lasell  days  and  it  was.  Sibyl  is  choir  mis- 
tress in  this  southern  church."  Lucy  also  had 
seen  Helen  Hood,  TO,  and  wonders  if  we  knew 
that  Helen  has  spent  a  year  in  France  doing 
Red  Cross  Canteen  work.  Lucy  hopes  to  join 
her  class  at  the  reunion  this  spring  and  we 
hope  that  her  plan  will  materialize. 

Grace  Hardy,  '04,  and  a  friend  took  dinner 
at  the  Seminary  not  long  ago.  Grace  is  very 
much  interested  in  war  work  and  also  has  an 
opinion  of  her  own  concerning  the  Bolsheviki 
movement  here.  Thoroughly  American  and 
loyal  to  her  country,  as  usual,  she  is  very  tol- 
erant and  determined  as  of  old  to  find  out  the 


rights  of  all  classes.  We  were  delighted  to 
see  her  and  hope  she  will  soon  come  again. 

Miss  Mary  Augusta  Mullikin,  head  of  our 
Art  Department,  is  enjoying  a  part  of  a  Sab- 
batical year  in  China.  She  and  her  mother  in 
company  with  Miss  Mullikin's  sister,  Mrs. 
Lowry  of  Pekin,  China,  sailed  early  in  March 
for  a  six  months'  sojourn  in  the  far  East.  The 
very  best  wishes  of  a  host  of  Lasell  friends 
old  and  new  go  with  the  popular  head  of  our 
Art   Department. 

Helen  Gerrett,  '16,  got  as  near  Lasell  as 
Boston  but  her  plans  to  come  home  failed. 
She  was  kind  enough  however,  to  "call  us  up" 
and  extend  most  cordial  greetings  and  friend- 
ly good  wishes  for  the  school.  By  the  way, 
we  have  heard  from  friends  who  have  been 
under  Helen's  care  that  she  is  a  most  excellent 
teacher  and  we  congratulate  her  on  the  good 
work  she  is  doing. 

In  a  line  to  Miss  Packard  our  dear  Miss 
Irwin  writes  from  her  home  town  of  Sandwich 
that  she  is  eagerly  watching  and  waiting  for 
the  Lasell  Leaves  and  is  kind  enough  to  say, 
"I  miss  the  Leaves  much  when  they  don't 
come.  Not  to  have  the  Leaves  is  like  being 
without  the  American  papers  in  Europe."  A 
certainly  valuable  comment  from  our  former 
teacher. 

Olive  Bates  Dumas,  TO,  writes  from  Han- 
over, Mass. :  "We  have  been  literally  snow- 
bound, so  much  so,  that  for  one  week  we  had 
no  trains,  express,  or  freight  and  for  six  days 
no  mail  or  papers.  Just  think  of  that  within 
a  few  miles  of  Boston !  I  know  Miss  Wither- 
bee  would  like  to  have  seen  some  of  our  snow 
scenes  and  the  birds.  I  have  had  them  espe- 
cially in  mind  providing  them  with  food  and 
1  cannot  begin  to  tell  you  all  the  different 
kinds,  but  pheasants  and  English  starlings 
were  the  most  unusual  of  the  little  feathered 
friends  who  came  for  food.  One  of  my  neigh- 
bors had  wild  rabbits  who  came  near  to  the 
house  in  order  to  be  fed." 

Girls  who  were  at  Lasell  in  Gertrude  Ting- 
ley's  day  will  be  interested  to  know  that  she  is 
still   devoting  herself    to   music   and   recently 


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gave  an  entire  concert  in  Jordan  Hall,  Boston, 
which  received  favorable  comment  from  the 
music  critics.  Some  day  she  has  promised  to 
sing  at  her  school  home  and  we  are  looking 
forward  with  great  pleasure  to  the  fulfillment 
of  this  promise. 

Among  the  few  in  the  great  company  of 
Smith  College  students  to  receive  special  honor 
this  spring  is  our  Carol  Rice,  '16,  who  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  frat- 
ernity.    Our  hearty  congratulations  to  Carol. 

During  the  Easter  vacation  Edith  McClure 
Patterson,  '02,  was  the  guest  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Winslow.  She  was  here  visiting  various 
schools  in  the  interest  of  "the  campaign  for 
better  schools"  being  carried  on  in  Dayton, 
Ohio. 

In  a  recent  letter  to  our  Principal  from 
Elizabeth  Tyner  Cedergren  she  writes,  "We 
are  now  in  Basse-Alsace,  France,  where  I  am 
visiting  my  mother-in-law  but  am  thinking  se- 
riously of  returning  to  America  in  order  to 
have  my  two  fatherless  children  raised  in  our 
own  land."  Elizabeth  has  had  quite  a  little 
training  in  war  service  and  must  have  an  in- 
teresting experience  to  report. 

Mabel  M.  Lutes,  '95,  sends  Dr.  Winslow  the 
good  news  that  her  class  is  looking  forward  to 
a  reunion  in  June.  It  will  be  their  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary. 

Marion  Shinn,  '11,  spent  a  season  recently  in 
Boston  taking  special  lessons  in  Music  from 
Miss  Priscilla  White.  She  was  too  busy  to 
give  any  time  to  Lasell  but  was  kind  enough  to 
write  a  friendly  message  to  our  Principal  in 
which  she  expressed  the  hope  that  later  she 
may  return  to  Boston  and  visit  the  school. 

Edith  T.  Grant,  '98,  is  now  at  Charlemont. 
Massachusetts,  and,  if  you  please,  the  head  of 
her  own  farm,  specializing  in  the  raising  of 
poultry  and  finds  the  work  very  interesting. 
She  adds,  "I  am  interested  as  usual  in  the 
affairs  of  Lasell  and  am  always  glad  to  speak 
highly  of  the  school  to  my  friends  especially 
those  who  have  girls  of  Lasell  age."  We  wish 
Edith  abundant  success  in  this  business  ven- 
ture. 


Dear  Dorothy  Phillips,  is  seems  but  yester- 
day that  she  was  in  our  school,  a  busy,  happy, 
little  student.  She  returned  to  her  home  for  a 
brief  rest  but  it  was  otherwise  ordered  for 
she  was  suddenly  taken  from  us  while  there 
recuperating  from  what  we  hoped  was  a  tem- 
poral")' illness.  Dorothy  expected  to  devote 
her  life  to  missions  and  will  be  sorely  missed 
in  her  home  church  where  she  was  a  leader 
among  the  young.  Our  tenderest  sympathy 
goes  out  to  the  bereaved  family  of  this  dear 
schoolmate. 

Our  sympathy  is  also  extended  to  the  family 
of  Marion  Weidman  who  have  been  recently 
afflicted  in  the  passing  away  of  dear  Marion's 
mother.  Mrs.  Weidman  was  a  physician  of 
more  than  local  repute  and  her  loss  is  keenly 
felt  by  a  large  circle  of   friends. 

Two  of  Lasell's  nearest  and  dearest  neigh- 
bors have  recently  been  called  into  a  higher 
service.  In  the  death  of  Dr.  Francis  Peloubet 
and  Mr.  Charles  Johnson  our  school  has  lost 
two  of  her  best  friends  as  well  as  neighbors. 
To  these  bereaved  families  we  extend  our 
heartfelt  sympathy. 

In  a  sense  I  suppose  our  Preceptress  is  a 
member  ex-officio  of  each  class.  Anyway  she 
succeeded  in  getting  hold  of  this  most  inter- 
esting letter  from  Dorothy  Barnes,  '18,  and 
is  venturing  to  insert  it  "in  toto."  One  or  two 
of  the  bits  of  news  we  have  already  received 
but  the  whole  message  is  so  fine  we  are  taking 
the  liberty  of  sharing  it  with  our  interested 
clientele.  How  sincerely  we  wish  that  every 
class  president  or  secretary  would  follow  Dor- 
othy's original  and  valuable  example  passing 
the  good  news  on  to  the  Leaves. 
"Dear  Classmate : 

When  I  decided  that  it  was  quite  time  to 
be  hearing  from  one  another  and  thought  of 
this  as  being  a  possible  way  I  didn't  realize 
how  much  fun  it  would  be  to  hear  from  you 
all  again.  I  only  wish  I  could  send  every  bit 
of  each  letter  for  they  were  so  interesting  but 
this  must  not  be  too  long. 

Six  of  our  class  have  married  since  gradua- 
tion, Clara  Spinney  being  the  first  to  take  the 


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step.  She  is  now  Mrs.  A.  P.  Colby  and  is 
settled  in  Pittsburgh.  Edith  Powell  became 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Van  der  Wolk  soon  afterwards 
and  lives  in  Springfield  while  Lois  Nichols 
now  Mrs.  E.  V.  Arnold  lives  in  Olean,  New 
York.  Then  late  in  October  Bunny  Cohn  be- 
came Mrs.  Ralph  Ettlinger  and  lives  in  Chi- 
cago. Roxanna  Stark  has  been  Mrs.  H.  R. 
Burns  since  this  fall  and  lives  on  a  real  farm 
in  Missouri.  Margery  Deffenbaugh  was  mar- 
ried to  Dr.  George  A.  Hoop  in  February. 

Jo  Forster  has  moved  to  Kankakee,  Illinois 
and  has  been  modiste  for  her  family  besides 
going  into  Chicago  for  good  times  too.  Helen 
Hart  is  doing  stenographic  work  in  an  archi- 
tect's office  in  Cleveland.  However  she  is  go- 
ing to  Florida  with  her  parents  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  winter. 

Connie  Allen  did  Red  Cross  work  during 
1918.  Since  that  time  she  has  taken  a  secre- 
tarial course  and  worked  in  the  Liberty  Loan 
headquarters.  But  her  latest  act  is  joining  the 
ranks  of  the  engaged  "Eighteeners,"  the  lucky 
one  being  Robert  Moyer,  a  brother  of  Betty 
Moyer. 

A  letter  from  Esther  Landis  says  that  she 
has  been  home  most  of  the  past  year  with  a 
few  visits  to  Lasell  girls  last  summer.  Tene 
Goodman  always  keeps  busy — her  latest  being 
secretarial  work  with  the  State  Board  of  Agri- 
culture. She  is  soon  to  visit  California.  An- 
other who  is  making  Hartford  her  stopping 
place  for  the  second  year  is  Winifred  Tracy. 
She  is  completing  a  secretarial  course  in  Morse 
Business  College. 

In  themidst  of  exams  Marjorie  Kunkel  took 
time  to  write  a  note.  She  is  now  a  Junior  at 
Indiana  University  though  her  search  for 
knowledge  may  soon  end  in  a  trip  to  New 
York  with  her  parents  where  she  will  spend 
the  rest  of  the  winter  probably.  The  ill  health 
of  Helen  Selkirk's  mother  made  it  necessary 
for  her  to  stop  college  but  I  don't  believe  she 
stopped  work  for  she  is  teaching  some  classes 
at  the  Albany  Girls  Club,  besides  finding  her 
place  in  church  work. 

Among   our    real    school   teachers    we    find 


Elsie  Flight  teaching  third  grade  in  New 
Haven.  Amy  Tuthill  is  spending  her  second 
year  in  West  Rutland,  Vermont,  teaching  Do- 
mestic Science.  There  are  two  grade  schools 
and  one  High  School  in  the  town  and  Amy 
has  some  classes  in  each  and  should  I  tell  you 
the  compliment  Gail  Wilson  paid  her  after 
having  visited  her  recently — well  all  I'll  say 
is  this,  "Amy  is  a  wonder  and  '18  has  just 
cause  to  be  proud  of  her." 

Gail  has  finished  a  business  course  and  may 
accept  a  position  in  Rutland.  Moreover  she 
has  been  enjoying  the  many  winter  sports 
which  that  cold  country  affords.  From  down 
in  Connecticut  comes  a  letter  from  Anita 
Hotchkiss  who  has  been  home  most  of  the 
time  with  a  few  visits  to  her  Lasell  friends. 

Since  September  1918,  Nan  Stronach  has 
been  working  in  a  bank  in  Pittsfield  and  en- 
joys it  very  much.  Grace  Tredway  is  again 
at  Ohio  State  Universty  for  her  second  year. 
Exams  and  work  with  plenty  of  good  times 
make  up  her  busy  routine. 

From  Wilkes  Barre  comes  a  letter  from 
Helene  Davenport.  This  fall  she  has  been 
visiting  but  now  is  busily  engaged  in  helping 
put  on  an  Opera  which  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  are 
giving. 

Elsie  Kimball  is  living  at  home  with  her  • 
mother.  She  gave  us  an  interesting  bit  of 
news  about  Adele  Chaffee  who  as  many  of 
you  know  has  been  traveling  abroad  for  some 
time  with  her  mother.  She  is  soon  to  return 
to  the  good  old  U.  S.  A.  and  after  next  sum- 
mer wll  be  Mrs.  Sydney  Higgins  instead  of 
just  "Chaffee." 

Besides  being  housekeeper  and  companion 
for  her  father  Doris  Gorke  finds  time  to  teach 
cooking  to  Italian  children  and  older  girls,  the 
work  being  given  under  the  Americanization 
League.  Then  a  class  at  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  so 
surely  there  is  one  of  our  number  who  is  not 
loafing. 

Barbara  McLellan  did  her  share  of  war 
work  while  a  good  part  of  last  winter  she 
spent  in  California  getting  back  to  Boston  in 
time   for   Commencement   and   west  again   to 


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Wyoming  for  the  summer  with  Kathryn 
Craig.  Kathryn  has  been  home  this  winter 
until  a  few  weeks  ago  when  she  left  with  her 
parents  for  a  southern  trip  to  include  Cuba, 
the  Canal  and  California. 

In  the  fall  after  graduation  Annie  Dimond 
had  charge  of  all  the  Liberty  Loan,  Thrift 
Stamp  and  War  Stamp  Campaigns  in  the  U. 
S.  Rubber  Co.  She  is  now  in  the  Dental  Dis- 
pensary in  the  mornings  and  does  secretarial 
work  afternoons  in  the  same  company.  By 
proper  name  she  is  called  an  Industrial  Rela- 
tive Worker. 

And  Esther  Norcross  is  teaching  music  to 
many  pupils  among  whom  according  to  her 
reports  are  several  little  rascals.  By  the  way, 
this  summer  I  had  a  delightful  month's  visit 
in  Old  Town. 

Another  of  our  class  seeking  knowledge  is 
Esther  Ross  who  is  enjoying  her  second  year 
at  the  University  of  Michigan.  Exams  were 
quite  her  specialty  when  she  wrote. 

Marion  Goodrich  is  living  with  her  sister 
in  Newton  Centre  and  attending  Bryant  and 
Stratton  School  in  Boston.  Gladys  Wright  is 
assisting  her  father  in  his  law  office  and  has 
become  so  fond  of  that  work  that  she  is  plan- 
ning to  take  a  short  course  in  law  herself. 

Such  a  newsy  letter  came  from  Priscilla 
Morris  that  I  wish  I  might  put  it  in  bodily 
but  I  must  think  of  space.  She  attended  Miss 
Pierce's  Shorthand  School  in  Boston  and  now 
has  a  position  in  a  lawyer's  office  on  State 
Street.  She  is  rooming  with  Irvina  Pomeroy 
who  has  completed  a  twelve  months'  course 
at  Forsyth  Training  School  for  Dental  Hy- 
gienists  and  is  now  doing  gold  inlay  work  and 
serving  as  assistant  to  a  doctor.  She  is  en- 
gaged to  a  Junior  at  Tech  but  the  name  she 
omitted. 

Since  October,  1918,  Octavia  Hickox  has 
been  secretary  of  the  Red  Cross  of  Water- 
town,  Conn.  And  just  now  she  is  busy  get- 
ting ready  to  be  married  to  Justin  Smith  who 
is  now  a  Senior  at  Renssalaer  Polytechnic. 

Elsie  Hughes  has  been  working  as  a  stenog- 
rapher for  the  assistant  advertising  manager 


of  a  large  concern  in  Rochester.  Then,  too, 
she  has  a  Sunday  School  class  of  inquisitive 
youngsters  to  occupy  her  Sundays. 

The  Massachusetts  General  Hospital  finds 
quite  enough  things  to  keep  Ruth  Newcomb 
out  of  mischief.  With  one  eye  on  an  ether 
patient  and  the  other  on  -her  paper  she  found 
time  to  write  her  letter.  Now  that  she  has 
passed  the  probation  stage  her  work  is  much 
more  interesting. 

Helen  Smith  is  living  at  home  and  taking  a 
course  in  Cooper  Union  in  New  York.  Her 
work  is  in  interior  decoration  and  decorative 
design.  Lydia  Adams  has  become  greatly  in- 
terested in  Sunday  school  and  church  work. 
Besides  having  a  Sunday  school  class  she  is 
taking  teachers'  training  work.  But  being 
very  fond  of  winter  sports  she  finds  plenty 
of  time  to  indulge  in  them. 

It  seemed  as  though  Mid  Cary  came  right 
in  when  her  letter  appeared  and  what  a  busy 
life  she  leads.  At  present  she  is  down  in  New 
London  at  the  Submarine  Base  as  secretary 
to  the  captain  of  the  Red  Cross.  At  Christ- 
mas time  she  announced  her  engagement  to 
Mr.  Eaton  and  probably  will  be  married  next 
fall  and  live  near  Boston. 

Marion  Oram  is  in  her  Junior  year  at 
Teachers  College  in  New  York  majoring  in 
Nutrition  and  expects  to  be  a  dietetian  in  an- 
other year.  Marion  is  engaged  too,  but  the 
name  of  the  lucky  one  she  omitted.  She 
added  this  bit  of  news  and  though  not  an 
"Eighteener"  I  thought  you  would  all  be  in- 
terested. Said  she  saw  Norma  MacMillan  in 
the  city  lately  and  Norma  is  going  to  enter 
college  to  take  Domestic  Science.  Will  won- 
ders never  cease? 

Right  here  in  Los  Angeles  is  Amy  Phillips 
and  I  see  her  once  in  a  while.  She  has  been 
making  some  very  successful  ventures  in  the 
real  estate  world  as  well  as  helping  with  the 
census  report  here.  Helen  Warner  has  been 
here  for  several  weeks  and  we  have  had  a  lot 
of  good  times  together.  For  the  benefit  of 
those  who  didn't  see  her  last  June  let  me  say 
that   she  is   wearing  a   beautiful   engagement 


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ring  and  expects  tp  be  married  this  spring. 

Emily  Ehrhart  is  in  Pittsburgh  for  the  sec- 
ond year,  last  winter  taking  the  Children's 
Library  Course  at  Carnegie  Library  School 
and  this  year  doing  work  among  the  foreign 
mill  workers.  She  is  still  engaged  to  the 
same  man. 

A  last  minute  note  from  Maggie  Mclntyre 
appeared  and  with  it  came  the  announcement 
of  her  engagement  to  Dana  Hoffman.  The 
date  for  the  wedding  has  not  been  set. 

One  more  item  of  news  that  should  inter- 
est all.  Lois  Nichols  (Mrs.  E.  V.  Arnold,  220 
First  St.,  Olean,  New  York)  does  want  me 
to  remind  you  all  that  class  dues  are  still  fifty 
cents  a  year  and  with  all  of  the  engagements 
you  can  readily  see  that  she  needs  your  sup- 
port. 

As  for  my  own  existence  since  leaving  La- 
sell  it  almost  resembles  that  of  a  gypsy.  I 
spent  six  months  of  last  year  in  Los  Angeles 
with  my  parents,  then  in  June  went  east  in 
time  for  commencement.  On  my  way  home  I 
visited  several  of  the  girls,  finally  arriving 
just  in  time  to  start  to  California  again.  We 
drove  through  and  had  a,  wonderful  trip  stop- 
ping at  the  Grand  Canyon  for  a  few  days. 
Since  arriving  here  I  have  done  a  great  many 
things,  first  taking  a  short  business  course 
and  even  though  I  am  not  a  perfect  stenog- 
rapher ( as  you  can  readily  see  by  my  efforts 
to  write  this)  I  am  competent  to  fill  the  wants 
of  my  father  as"  his  secretary.  Of  course 
there  is  always  so  much  to  do  and  see  out  here 
that  there  is  never  a  spare  moment  and  I 
would  like  to  stay  but  we  are  returning  to 
Kansas  some  time  in  April. 

I  wish  everyone  of  you  might  have  been 
back  at  our  first  reunion  last  June.  As  I  re- 
member there  were  thirty  girls  and  we  did 
have  such  good  times  as  well  as  one  real 
"Tea"  at  Filene's.  But  remember  that  every 
year  we  hope  to  have  a  large  number  there 
and  everybody  come  who  can  for  truly  it  is 
great  to  be  back  at  dear  old  Lasell. 

This  has  lengthened  into  quite  a  letter  but 
I  wish  I  had  news  of  each  of  the  fifty-five.    I 


enjoyed  so  much  reading  all  of  your  letters 
and  I  hope  you  may  enjoy  this — if  so,  perhaps 
we  can  have  another  which  will  be  bigger  and 
better  some  day. 

With  all  my  best  wishes  for  your  success 
in  this  and  every  year. 

Sincerely, 
Dorothy  Barnes. 

Our  Easter  Leaves  seems  to  be  the  most 
appropriate  number  in  which  to  announce  the 
birth  of  Lasell  children. 

On  the  twenty-seventh  of  February  a 
daughter  Mary  Frances  Lumbard  Doonan, 
was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  E.  Doo- 
nan (Mary  Lumbard,  '10). 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warren  F.  Starkey  (Virginia 
May  Moore,  '17)  are  rejoicing  over  the  birth 
of  a  son,  Howard  Moore  Starkey,  on  March 
eleventh. 

Our  loving  congratulations  to  the  parents  of 
this  dear  little  girl  and  boy. 

Lilian  Douglass,  '07,  has  evidently  been 
touring  California  for  she  writes  to  Miss 
Witherbee  from  El  Centro.  "We  are  here  in 
the  famed  Imperial  Valley  where  it  never, 
never  rains  but  it  happens  to  be  raining  to- 
day but,  seriously,  it  hardly  ever  rains  and  the 
people  do  not  wish  it  for  it  is  injurious  to  the 
crops  as  the  things  raised  here  are  watered  by 
irrigation,  and  the  ground  after  a  rain  be- 
comes impassable  for  man  or  beast.  The 
mountains  are  very  interesting.  There  has 
been  more  rain  than  usual  thus  making  the 
verdure  very  beautiful.  The  streams  are  full 
and  en  route  we  passed  a  number  of  delight- 
ful camping  places.  Our  first  glimpse  of  the 
valley  was  beautiful  in  its  wonderful  color- 
ing, and  the  soft,  delicate,  pastel  shades 
blended  together.  The  Mexican  border  is 
very  near  us  and  there  is  to  be  a  large  aviation 
field  established  here  so  that  the  airships  will 
guard  the  border  as  the  roads  are  so  often 
impassable.  It  is  Sunday  and  at  our  service 
this  morning  the  pastor  spoke  of  the  desert 
blooming  like  a  rose.  He  certainly  had  a  very 
vivid  illustration  round  about  him.     The  first 

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Well-meaning  hostess  (to  vocalist  who  has 
just  done  his  worst)  :  "Now,  Mr.  Smith,  you 
must  never  tell  us  again  that  you  can't  sing. 
We  know  it." 


"Is  your  husband  a  good  provider,  Dinah  ?" 

"Yessum,   he's   a   good   providah   all   right, 

but  I'se  alius  skeered  dat  niggah's  gwine  ter 


git  caught  at  it." 


"So  you  want  to  be  my  son-in-law,  do  you  ?" 
asked  the  man,  with  as  much  fierceness  as  he 
could  assume. 

"Well,"  said  the  young  man,  "I  don't  par- 
ticularly want  to,  but  I  suppose  I  shall  have  to 
be  if  I  marry  your  daughter." 


Kay :  "The  gray  squirrels  seem  to  be  so 
happy  and  chipper  and  gay." 

Helen :  "Well,  they  ought  to  be  happy ; 
they're  worth  about  five  times  as  much  as  they 
used  to  be." 


"What's  the  hardest  thing  about  aviation  ?" 
asked  the  would-be  aviator. 

"The  ground,"  was  the  instructor's  reply. 


Peg :  "I  fear  this  advertisement  conceals  a 
domestic  tragedy." 

Elsie:    "What  does  it  say?" 

Peg:  "Bride  will  exchange  new  furniture 
for  fur  neckpiece." 


"What's    the    difference    between    ammonia 
and  pneumonia?" 

"One  comes  in  bottles,  the  other  in  chests." 


Sadie :    "Aw,  Ma,  I'm  too  tired  to  sweep." 

Ma :     "No,    you   ain't,    daughter.      Just   go 

partners    with   this    broom,    I'll    turn    on   the 

graphophone,  and  you  can  jazz  out  the  din- 


Billie :  "Have  you  forgotten  you  owe  me 
two  dollars  ?" 

Fluff:  "No,  not  yet.  Give  me  time  and  I 
will." 


That's  All. 

Busy  Housewife:  "Well,  what  do  you 
want?    Speak  quick." 

Hungry  Hobo :  "An  automobile,  a  flyin' 
machine,  a  rich  wife,  a  brand  new  flivver,  a 
steam  yacht,  a  private  car,  and  a  ham  sand- 
wich with  a  cup  o'  coffee." 


He:  "I'm  not  good  enough  for  you  darling." 
She :   "I  know  it,  but  you're  the  best  I  could 
get." 


"A  Victrola  is  an  alleged  musical  instru- 
ment, popular  at  home,  but  unpopular  next 
door." 


"A  cauliflower  is  merely  a  cabbage  with  a 
college   education." 


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Lost  One :    "I  want  you  to  take  this  ring 
back." 

Jeweler:    "Why,  didn't  it  suit?" 
Lost  One :    "I  don't  know.     I  didn't." 


"Mary  had  a  little  lamb, 

With  green  peas  on  the  side  ; 
The  bill  was  seven  dollars — 
Her  escort  nearly  died." 

—Ex. 


Judge:    "How  old  are  you,  madame?" 
Witness  :    "I'm  around  thirty." 
Judge :    "So  I  see.     And  how  many  years 
is  it  since  you  got  around  it?" — Ex. 


Boy :  "Gimme  a  penny's  worth  of  mixed 
candies." 

Shopkeeper :  "Here  are  two  pieces,  my  lad. 
You  can  mix  them  yourself." 


It  was  at  the  public  library.  A  small  boy 
clutched  a  well-worn,  dirty  volume.  At  last 
it  came  his  turn  to  present  his  book  for  the  in- 
spection of  the  librarian.  The  suspense  was 
great,  but  finally  the  librarian  leaned  forward. 
Taking  in  the  size  of  the>boy  and  then  glanc- 
ing back  at  the  book,  she  remarked :  "This 
is  rather  technical,  isn't  it?" 

Planting  his  feet  firmly  on  the  floor  the  boy, 
half  defiant,  half  apologetic,  retorted :  "It  was 
that  way  when  I  got  it,  ma'am." 


Mother :  "Why  do  you  always  insist  on 
having  the  largest  piece  of  pie?  Isn't  your 
older  brother  entitled  to  it?" 

Boy :  "No'm,  he  ain't,  'cause  he  was  eating 
pie  five  years  'fore  I  was  born." 


They  met  but  for  a  moment, 
They  will  never  meet  again, 

'Twas  but  the  meeting  of — 
A  cow  with  a  passing  train. 


"Where  is  the  post-office,  Mary?" 
"How'd  you  know  my  name  was  Mary?" 
"Oh,  I  just  guessed  it." 
"Well,  guess  where  the  post-office  is." 


Jimmie  :    "Have  you  Lamb's  Tales  ?" 
Clerk :   "No,  this  is  a  book  store,  not  a  meat 
market." 


PERSONALS 

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of  the  week  I  spent  in  Los  Angeles  with  Edith 
Simonds  Bennett.  She  and  her  mother  are 
about  to  build  a  new  home  and  Edith  is  full 
of  plans  and  very  busy  concerning  the  house. 
I  .also  have  had  some  good  times  at  Catalina 
Island  with  Edith  and  her  mother."  Lilian 
closes  with  most  cordial  greetings  to  the  old 
friends  at  Lasell.  We  are  still  remembering 
our  pleasure  at  having  her  with  us  last  year 
at  Commencement  time. 

We  learn  through  Nellie  W'oodward,  '15, 
that  Marguerite  Owen,  Mary  Taylor's,  '17, 
roommate,  of  Minneapolis,  is  in  Boston  and 
we  are  hoping  daily  to  see  her  at  Lasell.  Since 
leaving  our  school  she  has  been  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Minnesota,  majoring 
in  English  Literature.  ' 

During  Easter  vacation  Elsa  Rheinstrom 
Kopald,  '09,  and  her  handsome  husband  vis- 
ited Lasell.  We  were  glad  to  welcome  Elsa 
back  to  her  school  home. 

The  following  very  interesting  item  has  just 
been  received  from  Alice  Phillips'  mother : 

"Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  V.  Phillips  an- 
nounce the  marriage  in  Calcutta,  India,  on 
Saturday,  March  thirteenth,  of  their  daugh- 
ter Alice,  '19,  to  Mr.  Arnold  N.  Weeks  of 
Portland,  Me.  Mr.  Weeks  went  out  to  India 
with  other  young  men  in  November  to  be  con- 
nected with  the  Angus  Company,  a  jute  mill 
manufacturing  burlap  for  Bemis  Bros.  Bag 
Co.  of  Boston,  and  will  stay  four  years. 

Alice  left  Boston  in  October  with  her  fa- 
ther on  a  business  trip  which  was  to  take  them 
around  the  world,  but  she  seems  not  to  have 
been  able  to  get  more  than  half  way  round." 


We  wish  to  acknowledge  with  thanks  the 
following  exchanges:  Dynamo,  Newtonville, 
Mass.;  Exponent,  Greenfield,  Mass.;  Saga- 
more, Brookline  H.  S.,  Brookline,  Mass. ;  Sas- 
samon,  Natick,  Mass. ;  Salem  Oak,  Salem  H. 
S.,  Salem,  N.  J.;  Sliucis,  Schenectady  H.  S., 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. ;  Student,  Rochester  Cath- 
olic H.  S.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. ;  The  Lion,  Lyons 
Township  H.  S.,  La  Grange,  111. ;  University 
School  News,  University  School,  Cleveland, 
Ohio;  Vail-Dcan  Budget,  Vail-Dean  School, 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.;  Vindc.v,  Elmira  Free  Acad- 
emy, Immaculata,  Pa. ;  Whittier  Miscellany, 
Whittier  Society  Friends  School,  Wilmington, 
Del.;  World,  St.  Paul  Central  H.  S.,  St.  Paul, 
Minn. ;  Wm.  Words  College  Record,  Wm. 
Words  College,  Fulton,  Mo. ;  X-Ray,  Ander- 
son H.  S.,  Anderson,  Ind. 

The  World,  St.  Paul,  Minn.:  A  most  at- 
tractive magazine,  each  section  of  which  is 
well  organized.  Your  personals  are  espe- 
cially good. 

Review,  Lowell  High  School,  Lowell 
Mass. :  We  think  that  your  continued  story 
"Une  Vie  Devastee,"  is  interesting  and  that  it 
is  a  very  good  idea  to  have  such  stories.  Your 
sketches,  too,  are  cleverly  handled. 

Hotchkiss     Literary     Monthly,     Lakeville, 


Conn. :  Your  stories  are  splendid  and  the 
photographs  especially  interesting.  Might  we 
suggest  a  few  jokes  or  personals  ? 

The  Triangle,  Wilmington,  Del. :  A  well- 
arranged  magazine,  but  would  not  a  few  snaps 
or  pictures  be  an  added  attraction? 

The  Quill,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. :  Your  sto- 
ries are  mighty  good.  The  editorial  in  the 
February  number  was  also  well  handled. 

The  Review,  Newton  Mass. :  We  wish  to 
thank  you  for  the  splendid  criticism  you  gave 
our  paper  and  add  that  The  Review  is  worthy 
of  the  same  praise. 

The  Tattler,  Waterloo,  N.  Y. :  Plenty  of 
stories  and  poems,  but  where  is  your  exchange 
department  ?  We  would  suggest  it  a  better 
arrangement  were  all  the  ads  at  the  end  of  the 
magazine. 

The  Student,  Portsmouth,  Va. :  We  con- 
gratulate you  on  the  promptness  of  your 
March  number. 

The  Dreadnought,  Watonga,  Okla. :  Your 
jokes  and  personals  are  very  good  and  your 
continued  stories  splendid,  but  where  is  your 
exchange  department  % 

The  Early  Trainer,  Lawrence,  Mass. :  The 
appearance  of  your  magazine  is  very  neat  and 
attractive. 


VG^TZ 


FOR  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
"Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

THE  LASELL  CLUB  NUMBER 

All  articles  or  "bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor  — 

Lillian  M.  Packard 


THE  MID-WINTER  REUNION 


The  postponed  Supplement  from  March  to 
April  on  account  of  the  Special  Junior  and 
Senior  numbers  makes  some  of  the  news  items 
ancient  history,  too  interesting  to  be  omitted, 
however.  There  is  one  "winter  sport"  which 
we  look  forward  to  each  year  and  that  is  the 
annual  reunion  and  home  gathering  of  the 
Lasell  girls  of  other  years.  Invitations  were 
issued  and  all  preparations  were  made  for 
Monday,  February  ninth,  when  a  mild  form 
of  the  "flu"  made  its  appearance  in  our  midst, 
not  serious,  but  prevalent  enough  to  make  it 
seem  wise  to  postpone  indefinitely  the  lunch- 
eon. It  was  a  disappointment  to  us  but  the 
Lasell  principle,  health  first,  could  not  be  dis- 
regarded. It  happened  also  that  important 
members  of  the  alumnae  committee  were  also 
ill. 

Notes,  postals,  telegrams,  and  telephones 
were  sent  far  and  near  to  those  who  had  sent 
their  acceptance  and  to  others  who  might  come 
with  the  result  that  we  had  the  pleasure  of 
playing  hostess  to  only  two  friends  on  that 
day  and  they  were  very  welcome. 

"I  suppose  I  should  be  formal  and  correct 
and  simply  'regret' — but  I  am  taking  advantage 
of  the  opportunity  for  a  personal  note."  We 
are  grateful  to  those  who  thus  wrote  "home" 
and  share  with  our  readers  some  of  these  per- 
sonals. 

Miss  Chamberlayne,  not  strong  enough  to 
come,  writes  her  usual  cheery  and  helpful  mes- 


sage and  closes  it  with  this  characteristic  word, 
"Heaven  help  me  to  be  more  worthy  of  my 
friends." 

Carrie  Fuller  Eldridge  sends  regrets  because 
of  the  masterly  demands  of  her  four-months- 
old  son.  She  speaks  very  appreciatively  of  her 
Lasell  course  in  history  of  art  with  Miss  Mulli- 
kin  and  the  help  it  has  been  to  her  in  these 
later  years. 

Ruth  Griffin  is  planning  to  see  Lasell  in 
-  June  and  says  there  is  a  possibility  of  Helen 
Overholser  coming  with  her.  Ruth  has  be- 
come a  real  business  woman.  Since  the  death 
of  her  father,  she  has  carried  on  his  business 
and  is  enlarging  it. 

Going  back  to  Lasell  as  an  old  girl  is  the 
greatest  sensation  I  know.    Cornelia  Evans. 

A  week-end  at  Lasell  is  one  of  the  future 
plans  of  Mildred  Smith  and  Annie  Dimond. 

Marion  Hale  Bottomley  thinks  there  is  a 
possibility  of  sometime  living  near  Boston. 
This  meets  our  approval. 

Eleanor  McCausland  had  too  many  things 
on  hand  on  account  of  her  approaching  wed- 
ding in  March. 

Helen  Pope  has  been  doing  Manual  Therapy 
work  in  a  hospital  for  Crippled  Children  in 
Atlanta,  Georgia,  for  fifteen  months  and  re- 
luctantly gave  it  up  on  account  of  her  health. 

Ruth  Winslow's  duties  as  a  teacher  keep 
her  busy.  "I  have  a  very  interesting  class  of 
Polish  children.  They  are  exceptionally  bright 
and  I  enjoy  every  minute." 

If  I  could  do  just  as  I  like,  I  should  always 


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be  at  the  mid-winter  reunion.   Nellie  B.  Chand- 
ler. 

Miss  Ruth  Dunning,  one  of  our  former 
teachers  in  gymnasium  is  now  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Haas.  Her  husband  is  resident  director  of 
Christ  Church  House  and  their  apartment 
is  in  the  house  known  as  The  Band  Box,  344 
West  36th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Ella  Hazleton  is  back  from  service  in  France 
and  is  contemplating  a  course  at  Columbia. 

Harriett  Scott  returned  some  time  ago  from 
her  trip  to  the  Orient. 

Orra  Hammond  Perry  planned  to  be  at  the 
reunion  but  changed  her  plan  on  account  of 
illness  in  the  family.  "There  is  one  thing  sure, 
the  Leaves  has  improved  greatly  and  The  Sup- 
plement adds  much  interest  for  the  old  girls." 

"I  suppose  I  should  have  been  the  only  one 
of  my  class  present.  I  have  not  been  to  a  re- 
union since  our  dear  Miss  Blaisdell  passed 
away  and  I  shall  certainly  miss  her  whenever 
I  am  there."  Ida  Jarvis. 

Vera  Poole  and  Deborah  Ingraham  are  at 
Miss  Chamberlayne's  School  this  winter. 

Evelyn  Hauser  ran  across  Eunice  Votaw  and 
Hazel  Shaw  Schaupp  in  Boston  on  a  shopping 
trip. 

These  are  some  of  the  girls  who  planned 
to  be  here : 

Clara  Parker  Lucy  Dudley  Merrill 

Gertrude  Trafton  Maude  Hayden 

Harriett  Scott  Helen  Carter  Marcy 

Jessie  MacMillan  Lillian  Fuller  Merriam 

Nellie  Packard  Draper  Katherine  Dearborn 
Priscilla  Alden  Wolfe    Barbara  McLellan 
Nellie  Richards  Mrs.  Fred  Dow 

Norine  Dillingham  Maude  Simes  Harding 

Mary  Rose  Greene 


CLASS  OF    1917 


The  ever-faithful  class  secretary  sends 
through  The  Supplement  the  following  an- 
nouncement : 

STOP:     LOOK:     CONSIDER: 
Classmates,  let's  go ! 
Where?    To  Lasell,  June,  1920. 


The  Second  Big  Reunion  of  the   Class  of 
1917. 

WE  WANT  YOU ! 

"Celui  qui  vent,  celui  la  peut." 


WEDDING  BELLS  IN  HARDOI 

By  Constance  E.  Blackstock,  '09,  Hardoi,  India 

'All  the  world  loves  a  lover,"  and  all  the 
world  likes  to  go  to  a  wedding.  This  year 
the  wedding  bells  rang  very  often  for  Hardoi 
girls  but  I  am  going  to  tell  you  about  my  own 
special  "orphant  Annie" — for  the  others  had 
their  own  mothers  and  fathers  to  make  merry 
for  them. 

One  night  a  nice  young  man,  Jamal-ud-din, 
born  a  Mohammedan  but  baptized  a  Christian 
when  a  boy,  very  shyly  asked  for  a  wife.  He 
could  not  mention  her  name  for  that  would  not 
be  proper,  but  he  could  say  that  she  was  an 
orphan.  It  was  not  hard  for  us  to  guess  for 
we  had  only  the  one  marriageable  orphan,  and 
we  had  long  felt  that  very  loving  and  furtive 
but  discreet  glances  were  being  cast  at  Kan- 
silla,  the  young  lady  in  question. 

I  must  confess  to  actual  thrills  down  my 
spine  when  the  young  man  emphatically  de- 
clared, "She  and  only  she  is  the  girl  I  want — 
there  is  absolutely  no  one  else."  And  now  the 
girl  must  be  asked,  and  I  am  sure  no  youth 
blushed  more  than  this  "W.F.M.S.-er"  to  pro- 
pose to  the  bashful  maiden.  Their  own  meet- 
ing was  merely  to  hear  the  words  from  each 
other. 

And  now  came  the  engagement  ceremony, 
made  almost  as  solemn  as  the  marriage.  Two 
highly  decorated  chairs  occupied  prominent 
positions  in  the  drawing  room.  A  small  table 
was  placed  in  front  of  them,  on  which  were 
two  rings  and  the  inevitable  handkerchief.  On- 
ly a  few  friends  were  gathered,  who  sang 
"There  is  sunshine  in  my  soul  today,"  and  this 
was  truly  reflected  on  the  faces  of  the  fiance 
and  fiancee,  the  one  resplendent  in  a  pink  silk 
coat,  the  other  in  a  simple  dress  costing  a  dol- 
lar, but  the  finest  she  had  ever  worn.     Then 


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the  pastor  with  due  solemnity  read  the  beau- 
tiful lovely  story  of  Isaac  and  Rebekah  and 
offered  a  prayer  for  the  young  couple,  after 
which  a  ring  and  handkerchief  were  presented 
to  the  young  lady  on  behalf  of  the  young  man, 
and  likewise  to  him.  When  this  was  done  the 
girls  broke  into  song  and  "light  refreshments" 
were  served. 

And  now  to  get  the  girl  ready  for  the  home 
life.  The  matron  daily  instructed  her  in  the 
art  of  "housekeeping  for  two"  so  that  she 
would  not  make  the  mistake  one  girl  is  sup- 
posed to  have  made — of  putting  the  same  quan- 
tity of  salt  into  food  for  two  that  she  had  seen 
put  into  the  school  kettle  for  over  one  hundred 
girls. 

Another  teacher  and  her  classmates  helped 
her  sew  all  her  own  clothes,  and  she  was  even 
taught  how  to  cut  out  and  sew  a  man's  shirt. 
There  was  much  excitement  over  this  first 
bride  of  ours,  and  even  though  the  trousseau 
did  not  cost  $10,  yet  the  love  and  pleasure  that 
worked  itself  into  those  stitches  was  worth  a 
thousand  times  more. 

At  last  The  Day  arrived.  All  must  help  to 
dress  the  bride,  but  a  few  worked  hard  on  a 
hot  May  day  to  dress  up  the  old,  staid  school 
hall,  on  whose  wall  hangs  the  picture  of  our 
beloved  Mrs.  Parker,  the  founder  and  life 
giver  of  our  little  school.  A  large  gate  was 
made  of  graceful  bamboo  branches,  and  little 
flags — thousands  of  them — made  of  colored 
paper  (the  labor  of  many  hands  and  days) 
were  strung  up,  and  through  this  "Arc  de  Tri- 
omphe"  the  happy  couple  had  to  pass. 

As  I  ■  walked  up  to  the  altar  to  give  away 
this,  my  first  bride,  do  you  not  think  I  felt 
as  every  mother  feels?  For  this  poor  little 
orphan  girl  has  had  no  one  but  the  principal 
of  this  school  to  look  to  as  her  mother  for  the 
last  ten  years.  And  when  a  child  turns  out 
a  good  investment — helpful  and  earnest  in 
Christian  work — then  one  needs  feel  proud 
that  a  few  dollars  have  each  year  gone  to  keep 
this  girl.  I  think  a  young  people's  society  in 
Watertown,  N.  Y.,  has  supported  Kansilla 
Sumer.  It  may  well  feel  proud  of  its  invest- 
ment. 


To  go  on  with  my  story.  After  the  marriage 
they  must  needs  take  a  drive  in  the  conveyance 
some  kind  friend  of  the  New  England  Branch 
supports,  and  the  little  pony,  I  am  sure,  was 
proud  of  his  passengers.  Then  the  reception 
on  the  verandah.  The  cake  must  be  cut  in  the 
same  fashion  as  any  Western  bride  would 
"stick  the  knife"  into  hers,  and  I  am  sure  that 
no  wine  tasted  better  at  any  marriage  feast 
than  the  pure  tamarind  sherbet  made  from  the 
fruit  of  our  own  trees. 

That  evening,  under  a  beautiful  moonlit  sky, 
we  ate  the  wedding  dinner — just  the  teachers 
and  girls  of  the  bride's  class,  after  which  the 
bride  and  groom  walked  to  their  new  home, 
for  it  was  right  in  our  own  compound. 

And  that  night  and  many  nights  since,  that 
missionary  who  had  said,  "No,  I  never  will 
give  any  of  my  girls  in  marriage,"  prayed  hard 
that  God  would  bless  this  new,  simple  but  pre- 
cious Christian  home,  and  we  were  thankful 
that  both  its  inmates  were  true  Christian  young 
people. 

And  what  happened  after?  Our  earnest 
prayer  is  that  they  will  continue  to  "live  hap- 
pily ever  after,"  for  up  to  this  time  they  have 
been  very,  very  happy.  Our  little  girl  has  been 
true  to  the  ideals  taught  in  school,  and  every 
night  together  they  read  a  chapter  and  pray. 

I  know  that  I  shall  get  used  to  these  things, 
but  just  now  this  old  maid  "W.  F.  M.  S-er" 
has  all  the  joys  of  a  first  romance,  and  through 
all  the  years  the  memory  will  stay  with  her. 
Friends,  pray  for  our  young  brides  in  whose 
hands  is  the  making  of  the  next  generation  of 
our  Christian  womanhood  and  manhood. 

From   Woman's  Missionary  Friend. 


LASELL   FRIENDSHIPS 


Covina,  California. 
February  8.  1920. 
Dear  Miss  Packard : 

Ever  since  my  return  from  the  East  I  have 
intended  to  write  a  little  sketch  of  that  part  of 
my  trip  which  had  to  do  with  Lasell  girls,  so 
I  was  very  glad  to  receive  your  letter  to  spur 
me  on  and  know  that  such  a  thing  was  wanted. 


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I  started  on  my  eastern  trip  May  21st,  1919, 
going  directly  to  Westfield,  Mass.,  where  I  vis- 
ited Irene  Sauter  Sanford  '07  and  there  for 
the  first  time  I  saw  dainty  little  Mary  Ruth 
Sanford,  the  idol  of  Irene  and  her  husband. 
After  my  visit  there,  Irene,  Lela  Goodall  '07 
and  I  attended  Commencement  together.  Lela 
divides  her  time  between  her  various  homes  in 
Maine,  Mass.  and  Florida  and  altogether  is  a 
very  busy  person.  The  week  end  of  July  4th. 
I  spent  with  Florence  Lane  Staebner  '07  in 
Vineland,  New  Jersey.  Her  husband  holds  a 
Government  position  in  the  Bureau  of  Good 
Roads,  his  work  taking  them  to  New  Jersey 
for  the  summer  and  to  Florida  for  the  winter. 
The  following  week  end  I  spent  with  Helen 
Heath  '07  in  her  delightful  summer  camp  on 
Green  Pond  in  Northern  New  Jersey.  A  re- 
cent letter  from  Helen  tells  me  that  her  Father 
has  sold  the  camp  and  she  is  broken-hearted 
for  which  I  do  not  blame  her  for  Green  Pond 
is  a  beautiful  spot.  For  several  years  Helen 
has  been  connected  with  a  private  school  in 
Morristown,  N.  J.,  her  home. 

The  month  of  August  I  spent  in  Camden, 
N.  Y.„  which  is  the  home  of  Ruth  Stone  '04 
and  '05  but  owing  to  the  very  serious  illness 
of  her  Father  I  was  unable  to  visit  in  her  home 
but  nevertheless  Ruth  and  I  had  many  good 
visits  together.  She  is  Miss  Stone  as  yet  but 
I  fear  for  the  near  future.  From  Camden  I 
went  to  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  to  visit  Edna  Sis- 
son  Bowen.  Edna  has  two  lovely  boys,  Aubrey 
aged  3  and  named  for  his  father  and  Charles 
aged  1  and  named  for  Edna's  father.  I  did 
not  see  Ida  Sisson  Craver  '07  who  lives  in 
Wells,  Delta  County,  Michigan,  for  which  T 
was  very  sorry.  Edith  Sisson  is  married  and 
has  a  delightful  home  in  Binghamton. 

My  next  stop  was  Burlington,  Vermont,  and 
found  that  Etta  Thayer  '07  was  visiting  there 
also,  so  one  afternoon  Etta,  Mildred  Woodberry 
Page  and  I  had  an  interesting  Lasell  chat  over 
our  tea  cups.  Since  our  Lasell  days,  Etta 
has  been  living  in  Crawley,  Louisiana.  Mil- 
dred was  very  busy  with  her  young  daughter 
and  with  the  building  of  a  new  home.    One  day 


while  there  I  was  called  to  the  'phone  and  who 
should  it  be  but  Florence  Lane  Staebner  who 
was  accompanying  her  husband  on  a  business 
trip  through  the  New  England  States  so  the 
three  of  us  had  a  little  reunion  all  by  our- 
selves. I  spent  a  few  days  with  Ruth  Adams 
Whiston  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  despite  the  very 
serious  illness  of  her  husband,  which  brought 
many  cares  and  worries  to  Ruth,  I  found  her 
just  the  same  as  in  the  Lasell  days. 

It  was  my  plan  to  visit  Marion  Atwell  Alton 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  but  owing  to  an  unex- 
pected change  in  Captain  Alton's  plans  I  was 
unable  to  do  so.  I  missed  Cora  Danforth  in 
New  York  owing  to  the  serious  illness  of  her 
mother.  My  last  visit  was  in  Red  Oak,  Iowa, 
where  I  saw  Edith  Houghton  Heckert. 

All  of  these  visits  gave  me  a  great  deal  of 
pleasure  and  I  hope  the  friends  of  the  above 
mentioned  girls  will  find  pleasure  in  reading 
this  little  article. 

Typewriting  is  one  of  my  latest  accomplish- 
ments and  as  I  have  written  fewer  than  six 
letters  on  this  machine  I  know  that  you  will 
excuse  the  many  erasures  and  other  mistakes. 

Not  long  ago  Edith  Simonds  Bennet  and  I 
called  upon  Dr.  Bragdon  and  we  found  him 
out  weeding  his  lawn  which  always  looks  ab- 
solutely weedless.  He  is  anxious  to  sell  his 
beautiful  home  as  it  is  too  great  a  care  in  these 
servantless  days  for  Mrs.  Bragdon. 

I  am  looking  forward  to  the  Lasell  Luncheon 
in  March  and  hope  I  may  see  a  number  of 
eastern  girls  at  that  time. 

Give  my  love  to  all  my  friends  at  Lasell. 
Lovingly  yours, 

Lillian  Douglass. 


CLASS  OF  '89!  WHAT  NEXT? 


Once  again  the  Class  of  '89  appears  above 
our  horizon  casting  the  sunshiny  rays  of  her 
influence  upon  our  school.  This  time  comes 
a  check  for  seventy-three  dollars  to  pay  for 
another  two  years  the  support  of  a  French 
Orphan,  adopted  from  the  Lasell  group  of  the 
Fatherless  Children  of  France. 


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Having  met  their  foreign  obligations^  the 
members  of  the  class  and  their  close  friends 
of  the  same  period  are  now  raising  a  perma- 
nent fund  for  a  Lasell  scholarship  to  be  known 
as  "The  Class  of  '89  Scholarship,"  to  be  com- 
pleted at  their  thirty-fifth  reunion  in  1924. 
This  has  been  kept  a  secret  thus  far  but  now 
that  the  fund  has  sufficiently  grown  to  at  least 
admit  of  a  degree  of  success,  therefore  ceas- 
ing to  be  merely  a  dream,  it  has  seemed  better 
to  announce  it  that  others  may  follow  their 
example  and  do  likewise.  The  Class  of  '57 
gave  a  scholarship  for  several  years  and  there 
have  been  a  very  few  bequests  from  individ- 
uals, also  some  of  the  alumnae  have  had  a 
share  in  the  Caroline  Carpenter  scholarship 
fund  but  we  shall  have  to  give  honor  to  the 
Class  of  '89  for  being  the  first  class  to  start 
a  fund,  the  income  from  which  shall  be  for 
scholarship  purposes.  Since  they  have  the 
reputation  of  carrying  out  what  they  under- 
take, under  their  efficient  life  secretary,  we 
shall  watch  with  interest  and  appreciation  this 
their  latest  enterprise.  . 


LIGHTS  AND  SHADOWS 


New  Hampshire  Lasell  girls  are  surely 
patriotic  and  executive.  Annie  Bartlett  Shep- 
ard  of  Derry,  and  Anne  Wallace  '83  of  Roch- 
ester have  been  State  Regents  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  and  now  Anne 
Lovering  Barrett  '81  of  Claremont  graciously 
occupies  the  chair.    Lasell  shares  their  honors. 

The  Class  of  1907  will  be  deeply  touched 
by  the  announcement  of  the  death  of  Mary 
Richardson  in  February.  Our  sym- 
pathy for  her  father  who  is  an  invalid  is  tripled 
by  the  knowledge  of  the  death  of  her  mother 
about  a  year  ago  and  the  death  of  her  only 
sister  recently. 

Carita  Palmer  writes  from  the  sunny  south, 
DeLeon  Springs,  Florida,  "I  look  forward  each  ' 
month  to  receiving  the  Leaves  and  as  mother 
is  a  Lasell  girl  also  we  are  equally  anxious  to 
receive  each  number."  Carita  graduated  from 
Business  College  last   fall.     She  gives  us  the 


information  of  Edna  Edwards'  death  from 
pneumonia  in  February.  Edna's  cousin,  who 
was  at  Lasell,  Elouise,  is  in  California. 

We  are  pained  to  announce  the  death  of 
Amy  Brannon  Ansley  TO.  After  graduating 
from  Lasell,  Amy  attended  Wells  College  from 
which  she  graduated.  After  her  marriage,  her 
home  was  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  About  a  year 
ago  she  was  seriously  ill  with  influenza  from 
the  results  of  which  she  never  recovered.  The 
end  came  in  New  Mexico  in  February. 


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Saturday,  June  5.  8  P.   M. 
SENIOR  RECEPTION 


Sunday,  June  6,  10.45  A.  M. 
BACCALAUREATE  SERMON 

Edward   Cummings,  A.M. 

6.15   P.   M. 

COMMENCEMENT  VESPERS 

William  C.  Gordon  Ph.D. 


Monday,  June  7,  8  P.   M. 
CLASS  DAY  EXERCISES 

(Cards   necessary) 


Tuesday,   June  8,   10.45  A.   M. 

COMMENCEMENT  EXERCISES 

Clifton  Daggett  Gray,  Ph.D. 

2  P.  M. 

REUNION    OF   THE    ALUMNAE    AND    FORMER 
STUDENTS 


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Up 

BAKERS  COCO/L 

is  pure  and  delicious. 
Trade  mark  on  every 

package. 
WALTER  BAKER  &  CO.  ltd. 


ESTABLISHED  I7SO 


DORCHESTER,MA3S. 


3.  f.  GTQInmtor  (Co. 

1 57  Stomottt  Street 


Distinctive  smartness,  tempered  by 
good  taste:  Quality  always,  but 
at  the  lowest  possible  price — these 
are  the  characteristics  of  O'Con- 
nor apparel. 

The  dress  sketched  shows  the  unusual 
distinctiveness  which  even  a  serge  dress 
may  possess  if  it  bears  our  name. 

Suits,  dresses,  coats,  blouses,  hats  and 
accessones  for  Lasell  Girls. 


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THE  ISLAND  CAMP  FOR  GIRLS 

For  Booklet  address  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Towne 

Lasell  Seminary,  Auburndale  66,  Mass. 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

2B  PARK  ST.,  BOSTON 

DWuair  !?al?rs 


ALSO   PUBLISHERS  OF  THIS  STORY 

BUTTON'S  BIT 

The  Story  of  a  Dog 

A  Dog  story  for  children  and  grown-ups.  A  touching 
tale  of  how  a  real  live  curly-haired  doggie  did  "  his  bit  " 
by  sacrificing  his  beautiful  white  coat  to  make  a  pair  of 
warm  socks  for  a  soldier.  A  booklet,  that  if  read  to 
children,  wakens  and  stimulates  an  interest  in  dumb  ani- 
mals.    Two  editions. 

Booklet,  with  ten  illustrations,  post-paid,  25  cents. 

Folded  card  with  Picture  and  Story  of  Button,  10 

cents.     $1.00  per  dozen. 

Orders  for  Music  filled  the  same  dav  as  received 


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CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


2fotut0tt  ®ruat  Qlnmpatuj 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices  : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-1 


Telephone,  Richmond  731-732 

C.  D.  BULLERWELL  F.  M.  SCOBORIA. 

C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7  New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 
(NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,  MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 


HOTEL  SUPPLIES 
57  and  58  N.  Market  St. 


Boston 


LEATHER    NOVELTIES 

Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 

Hand  Bags 
Jewel  Cases 
Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape  Gloves   at   $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


60  Franklin  Street  { 

near  Washington  Street'! 


BOSTON 


P.  P  ADAMS 

Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 
business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

Best-Known     Shopping 

Place 

Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to    139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92  Bedford  Street,   Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  281  1 


HATS 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


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£>ay  it  uritlj  Mawna 


(Eljargf  aramnta  aclinic 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics   for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid   in    $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Vegetables 

Nos.  88,   90  and   92,   16  and    17   North  Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,   Boston,   Mass. 

H.    F.    RICE.    Pres. 
C.  H.  CUMMING.  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mgr. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and   4   Faneuil   Hall   Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


FOR  DRESS   AND   SPORT   WEAR 
RIDING  HATS  STRAW  SAILORS 

(Uoata 

Domestic  and  English  Manufacture 

BURBERRY'S  LONDON  COATS 

POLO   COATS  RAINCOATS 

LEATHER   COATS 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter- Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established   1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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NEW 
PLAID 


SKIRTS 


$25.00 


Box  plaited  skiits,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


L.  P.  Hollander  Co. 

MISSES'  AND   YOUNG   LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School     Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -       Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 

Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


Slip  Hmttamrft  Ityarmary 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


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1  he  Boston  Music  Cx>. 


(G.  Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :  Beach   1561 


rax  Brothers 

TZomsts 

44  TEMPLE  PLACE 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

(Efjmre  Hnsra 
Htnlrts  a«n  ®rrfjfaa 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE   PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  HomeReceipts 

Packed  in   Stone  Jars 

A.  T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78  Portland   St.,   Boston 

j  Tel.   577    Haymarket 

Send  for   price   list  of  over  60   kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
ipif  armaria! 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to    $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin    Guitars   and    Mandolins 
Tenor  Banjos,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.  BERMAN,  Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299  Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newton  West  965-J 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies '    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresses 

303  AUBURN  ST.,  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 
AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6   BOYLSTON   PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1  45 


William    M.   Flanders    Co. 


Wholesale    Grocers 


48  &  49  India  Street 


Boston 


The    most    delicate    and      delicious   flavored 
chocolate    to    be    found    anywhere 


MAX 


3^t3> 


1920 


LASELL  LEAVES 


Our  Shopping  Counselor 

Will  gladly  give  you  expert  aid  and  sound  advice  in  planning 

Your  Summer  Wardrobe 

Outfitting  for  camp  life  is  only  one  special  feature  of  her  service 
Settle  the  clothes  problem  before  warm  weather  and  avoid  that  pre-vacation  rush. 
Have  it  all  off  your  mind  early  this  year,  and  know  the  joy  of  hats,  coats,  suits,  dresses 
and  shoes,  all  chosen  with  that  correct  relation  to  one  another  which  is  the  basic  prin- 
ciple of  being  well  dressed  without  undue  extravagance 

Our  Counselor  will  save  you  Energy,  Time  and  Money 


At  your  service  daily 


Gown  Salon — Second  Floor— Main  Store 


Jordan    Marsh    Company 

Boston's  —  and  New  England's  —  Greatest  Store 


New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 


Diamonds 
Watches 

Bracelet  Watches 
Platinum  Jewelry 
Green  Gold  Jewelry 
Gold  Pocket  Knives 
Gold  Pencils 


Silver  Goods 
Fancy  Bead  Chains 
Roman  Pearls 
Cameo  Brooches 
Vanity  Cases 
Doreen  Boxes 
Photo  Frames 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 


Leather  Goods 
Fountain  Pens 
Chafing  Dishes 
Percolators 
Parisian  Ivory 
Ebony  Goods 
Panel  Mirrors 


Our    Watch    and    Jewelry    Repair     Departments    do    the    best 

work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving  Department 

Plate  and    100     Visiting     Cards,     Script     $2.75 
Plate  and    100  Visiting  Cards,   Old  Eng.   $4.75 

MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON     ...        -     AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


306  Fifth  Ave. 

392  Fifth  Ave. 

New  York 


30ST0I* 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting  and  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  on- 
looker say  to  himself :  '  A  Perfect  Likeness  !  " — and  also  to 
our  mind  a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price, 
AS  OURS  DOES. 
WE  TAKE  PLEASURE  IN  ANNOUNCING  TO  THE  STUDENTS 
OF  LASELL  OUR  NEW  AND  EXCLUSIVE  PARIS  ETCHING 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


Dress-smartness  is  not  merely  Style  —  it  is  Style  plus 
Good  Taste,  and  entirely  governed  by  the  latter. 
Slattery  Suits,  Coats,  Gowns  and  Accessories  for  women 
and  misses  are  notably  individual,  planned  to  fit  various 
types  —  yet  always  exclusive  and  of  refined  design. 
From  Hats  to  Hosiery,  from  Furs  to  the  lightest  Fan 
for  evening,  the  woman's  wants  are  considered. 

Betty  Wales  Frocks  Are  More  Delight- 
ful   This    Season     Than    Ever    Before. 


E.T.  SLATTERY  CO. 

TREMONT  STREET -BOSTON 

Opposite  Boston  Common 


LASELL   LEAVES 


gs  an< 

T"HE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.     If  you  desire  to  adorn  a  room  or  hall  or  stairway  Sffi 

with  these  superb  made-to-order  Rugs,    come    and    see    us   as   soon   as  possible,  as  some  [j}5| 

time  will  be  required.  =5] 

We   can   show   you   samples   of   all   colors   and   designs.     Our   know-how   men   will  take  sS 

the  measurements  and  advise  as  to  tone  effects.     The  mills  will  do  the  rest.  IU| 

Plain   colors   with   two-tone   band   borders   are   favorites.     Speaking   of   plain   colors,   here  SJ| 

are  a  few  of  the  many — grey,  blue,  green,  wistaria,  camel,  rose,  sand,  lavender,  cocoa,  taupe  5f|j 

faun,  mulberry,  mole,  cafe-au-lait,  putty.  =5] 

These  made-to-measure  Rugs  are  seamless  up  to  thirty  feet  width.     Good  for  any  room  SS 

and  good  the  year  round.  Soft  as  velvet  under  foot,  yet  last  for  years  and  years.  Wide  ^S 
range  of  prices. 


John  H.  Pray  &  Sons  Co. 

646  Washington  St.,  Opp.  Boylston,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and   Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL    STATIONERS 

Pemberton  /   Square 

BOSTON      -      -      MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


foSELL   te\VE:5 


Vol.  xxxxv 


LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE  66,  BOSTON,  MASS.,  MAY,  1920 


No.  8 


Published  Monthly   from   October   to    June    by   the    Lasell    Seminary    Students. 

Entered  as  second-class   matter   at   the   Boston,   Mass.,   Post  Office. 

Acceptance   for   mailing   at   special   rate  of  postage   provided   for   in   Section   1103,  Act  of  October   3,    1917,   authorized  on  October  28,    1918. 


Business    Manager 
MARION    BODWELL 


Local    Editors 
VIRGINIA  HUSSEY 
LILLIAN   FONTAINE 

Joke    Editor 
JULIA   RUSSELL 

Assistant 
DORIS    BROWN 


LIST   OF   OFFICERS 

Editor-in-Chief 
ELSIE    CROWELL 


Assistant    Editor 
FLORENCE    GREEN 

Art   Editors 

RUTH    ORDWAY 

NELL  WEST 

Athletic    Editor 
MILDRED    KNIGHT 


Subscription    Editor 
MARION   STEVENS 

Assistant 
DOROTHY  SHOVE 

Literary   Editor 
BLANCHE   CORIN 

Exchange   Editor 

MARGARET  LOOMIS 

VIOLET    COMLEY 


TERMS,  in  Advance:     One  Copy,  one  year,    (including   postage),   $1.00.     Single  Copies,   15  cents. 


CONTENTS 


FRONTISPIECE      ■    • 
LITERARY 

A  Quarrel  • 
The  Old  Clock 
Madge's  Mistake 


A .  B.  Whitmarsh 

■  ■     M.   Chandler 

■  ■      G.  Kenniston 


EDITORIAL        10 

LOCALS                       9 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 12 

PERSONALS 14 

JOKES            ■    ■                                                                              ■  16 

SUPPLEMENT     ....                                                       17 

EXCHANGES 23 


THE  BASKET  BALL  TEAM 


BASKET  BALL  SONG 


Florence  and  Balcom. 

Raise  high  the  blue  and  white,  girls, 
Show  off  our  colors  bright, 
Thro'  thick  and  thin,  we'll  play  the  game, 
We're  eager  for  vict'ry  and  fame 
Rah! 


Then  raise  high  the  blue  and  white,  girls, 

Follow  with  cheer  and  song — 

Cheer  it  on  to  victory — 

Dear  Alma  Mater,  we'll  win  for  Thee ! 


^>-, 


LET   US   TAKE   LEAVE  OF   HASTE 


Let  us  take  leave  of  haste  awhile, 

And  loiter  well  content 
With  little  pleasure  to  beguile, 
And   small  habiliment — 

Just  a  wide  sweep,  of  rain-washed  sky, 

A  flower,  a  bird-note  sweet ; 
Some    easy   trappings    worn    awry; 

Loose  latchets  for  our  feet; 

A  wheaten  loaf  within  our  scrip ; 
•    For  drink  the  hillside  spring, 
And   for  true  heart-companionship 
The  love  of  loitering. 

We  want  so  much,  and  yet  we  need 

So  very  slight  a  store, 
But  in  the  age's  grip  of  greed 

We   hurry   more   and   more. 

The    woodland    weaves    its    gold-green    net; 

The  warm  wind  lazes  by ; 
Can  we  forego?  can  we  forget? 

Come,  comrade,  let  us  try ! 


-Ex. 


A  NIGHTMARE 


In  the  old  Parker  Mansion  the  young  folks 
were  preparing  for  a  May  dance.  All  day 
long  they  had  busied  themselves  in  putting 
up  gay  streamers  of  crepe  paper,  festoons  of 
artificial  flowers,  clusters  of  bright  colored 
balloons.  At  the  risk  of  being  considered 
hopelessly  old-fashioned,  two  of  the  company 
had  gathered  and  arranged  great  bunches  of 
trailing  arbutus,  the  sweet  fragrance  of  which 
filled  the  room.     In  earlier  years  their  stately 


parlor  had  been  the-  scene  of  happy  gatherings. 
Then  came  a  period  when  the  owners  had 
closed  the  house  on  account  of  business 
abroad,  but  now,  newly  renovated,  it  had  again 
become  a  center  of  social  life. 

Above  the  fireplace,  which  remained  the 
same,  except  for  its  modern  tiling,  hung  a 
large  portrait  of  a  beautiful  girl,  who  had 
later  become  great-grandmother  Parker.  She 
stood  out  from  the  old  frame  a  lifelike  figure 
in  spite  of  her  quaint  costume ;  the  little  black 
slippers,  the  homespun  and  homemade  stock- 
ings, the  folds  of  the  green  silk  skirt  which 
fell  so  beautifully  over  the  hoop,  the  shapely 
bodice,  the  neck  so  modest,  the  elbow  length 
sleeves,  edged  with  ruffles  of  old  lace.  One 
graceful  little  hand  covered  by  a  black  lace 
mitt  held  an  ivory  fan,  as  delicate  in  tracery 
as  was  the  shell  comb  which  kept  in  place  the 
heavy  coil  of  dark  brown  hair. 

To-night  great-grandmother's  brown  eyes 
seemed  to  look  out  over  the  gay  room  almost 
regretfully.  A  close  observer  might  have  seen 
her  even  step  forward,  then  raise  her  hand  as 
if  in  protest.  Had  she  some  notion  of  speak- 
ing? Wild  strains  from  the  jazz  band  drowned 
her  refined  voice,  for  the  so-called  musicians, 
now  began  to  pound  out  a  noisy  discord  upon 
piano,  mandolin,  banjo,  bagpipe,  xylophone, 
saxaphone  and  drums.  The  grand  march  had 
evidently  been  called.  Though  stunned  for  a 
few  moments  great-grandmother  recovered 
sufficiently  to  gaze  at  the  company. 

How  oddly  they  were  arrayed !  Had  her 
great-granddaughter  dressed  in  such  haste  that 
she  had  forgotten  to  put  on  her  bodice  ?    Had 


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that  girl  in  the  striking  orange  costume  no 
visible  protection  for  her  back?  When  the 
last  ones  had  passed,  her  mind  was  a  confu- 
sion of  silk  stockings,  high  heels,  narrow 
skirts,  daring  splits  and  ear  puffs.  As  the 
clash  was  hushed  for  a  few  moments,  her  at- 
tention was  drawn  to  a  group  at  the  farther 
end  of  the  room ;  several  girls  were  standing 
before  a  mirror,  vigorously  hitting  their  noses 
with  a  round  white  something,  while  at  a  door 
nearby  some  youths  seemed  to  be  blowing 
rings  of  stifling  smoke  into  the  air  from  slen- 
der rolls  of  white  paper  held  in  their  mouths. 

Again  a  crash  of  tom-toms !  Instead  of  the 
Virginia  reel  and  Portland  fancy,  these  young 
folks  swept  round  and  round  with  a  whirl, 
a  dip,  a  click  of  heels  and  many  a  motion  that 
great-grandmother   did   not   understand. 

The  time  for  sleep  had  long  since  passed 
but  on  they  went  in  mad  career.  As  the  din 
at  last  subsided  great-grandmother  shrank 
back  into  her  frame.  In  her  dark  eyes  the 
troubled  look  deepened..  Over  and  over  again, 
she  might  have  been  heard  to  repeat :  "Well ! 
Well !  Times  have  changed  but  give  me  the 
good  old  days !" 

A.  B.  Whitmarsh,  '23. 


THE  OLD  CLOCK. 


"One!  two!  three!"  I  pause  and  count  the 
strokes  of  the  familiar  old  time-piece  on  the 
stairs  which  has  ticked  steadily  on,  so  I  am 
told,  from  the  moment  when,  as  a  wedding 
gift  from  her  father,  it  was  placed  in  grand- 
mother's newly  furnished  home  a  great  many 
years  ago.  After  her  death  it  was  given  to 
Mother.  She  loved  the  old  clock,  not  alone 
for  its  beautiful,  tall  mahogany  frame,  not 
alone  for  its  charming  square  face  and 
quaint,  graceful  hands,  nor  for  the  ship  just 
above  the  face  that,  with  each  swing  of  the 
pendulum,  sails  back  and  forth  on  a  blue  sea. 
It  was  dear  to  her  chiefly  because  of  the  fact 
that  her  mother  counted  the  happiest  moments 
and  hours  of  her  wedded  life  by  its  faithful 
"tick-tock."     The  dear  old  clock  does  not  de- 


mand much  attention,  a  little  care  once  in 
seven  days  will  keep  it  from  getting  into  a 
run-down  condition. 

If  the  steady  monitor  could  talk  I  wonder 
what  sort  of  tales  it  would  tell  of  the  sad- 
ness and  the  gladness  that  has  come  with  the 
moving  of  its  hands.  Perhaps  in  the  far-off 
future  the  old  clock  on  the  stairs  will  grow 
weary  with  its  life's  duty  and  its  willing  old 
hands  will  at  last  be  at  rest. 

Some  day  I'd  like  to  have  such  an  old  time- 
piece so  that  I  may  plan  each  day  by  its 
friendly  face,  and  at  night  when  sleep  for- 
sakes me,  I  may  lie  and  listen  for  its  silvery 
chime  and  count  one,  two,  three,  or  even 
more. 

M.  Chandler. 


MADGE'S  MISTAKE 


Madge  White,  a  girl  of  twenty,  lived  with 
her  mother,  father,  and  brother  in  a  little 
Connecticut  town.  Their  home  was  very 
simple,  by  no  means  costly,  but  none  the  less 
a  home,  and  a  happy  one.  Brother  Donald, 
some  eight  years  older,  was  so  very  genial 
as  to  make  life  pleasanter  for  the  rest  than 
it  might  else  have  been.  On  the  whole,  peace 
and  good  cheer  reigned  in  the  life  of  this 
family.  Then  came  the  time  when  Madge 
went  to  a  boarding  school  near  Boston.  After 
she  had  finished  a  two  years'  course  in  do- 
mestic science,  and  very  successfully,  she  ac- 
quired the  silly  habit  of  putting  on  airs  and 
the  bad  taste  of  being  ashamed  of  her  home. 
She  loved  her  home  dearly,  but  still  did  not 
think  it  good  enough  to  allow  her  to  ask  her 
school  friends  to  visit  her  there. 

One  day,  in  the  September  following  her 
leaving  the  school  in  June,  Mrs.  White  asked 
Madge  whether  she  would  not  like  to  have 
her  former  roommate  down  for  the  week-end, 
which,  by  the  way,  included  Madge's  birth- 
day. As  a  pleasant  little  celebration  of  the 
event,  she  offered  them  a  dinner  party,  and 
a  theatre  afterwards.  But  no ;  Madge  in- 
sisted that  she  did  not  think  she  wanted  Edith 


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to  come.  "Why  not?"  asked  her  mother,  and 
the  girl  after  some  hesitation  confessed  that 
she  was  ashamed  of  the  smallness  of  their 
home,  and  the  humbleness  of  their  style  of 
living.  Mrs.  White  was  much  hurt  to  hear 
this.  But  her  daughter  went  on  to  tell  her 
how  very  rich  Edith  must  be,  what  lovely 
clothes  she  had,  and  how  freely  she  spent  her 
money,  besides  the  additional  fact  that  she 
lived  in  a  town  in  New  York,  where  there 
always  something  interesting  or  exciting  to 
do.  She  succeeded  in  convincing  her  mother 
that  it  was  unadvisable  to  give  Edith  the  in- 
vitation. 

That  night,  after  the  dishes  were  washed, 
Madge  went  up  to  her  room  and  as  she  pre- 
pared for  bed,  thought  deeply  OTer  what  she 
had  that  afternoon  said  to  her  mother.  Her 
meditations  did  not,  apparently  soothe  her 
spirits  at  all,  for  finally  after  going  to  bed  she 
cried  herself  to  sleep.  But  next  morning  in 
spite  of  her  unhappy  yesterday,  the  world 
seemed  to  be  brighter  after  all.  At  the  break- 
fast table  Donald  not  knowing  how  unhappy 
she  had  been,  chatted  merrily  of  his  experi- 
ences of  the  preceding  days,  and  for  a  while 
Madge  forgot  her  self-made  woes,  and  it  was 
a  fairly  cheerful  girl  who  later  went  to  the 
store  to  order  the  groceries,  and  to  the  post- 
office  for  mail.  There  in  the  box  was  a  let- 
ter for  her  mother  and  one  for  herself.  Hers, 
to  her  delight,  was  from  Edith,  and  opening 
it  hurriedly,  she  found  it  an  invitation  to  visit 
her  friend  for  a  week.  Edith  knew  when 
Madge's  birthday  occurred  and  wanted  her  to 
spend  it  with  herself  in  New  York.  Radiant 
with  joy,  Madge  hurried  home  to  tell  her 
mother,  and  plan  for  the  visit.  All  next  day 
she  and  her  mother  talked  over  the  trip,  and 
what  preparations  were  necessary,  her  mother 
seeming  as  happy  and  excited  over  her  daugh- 
ter's chance  to  see  the  big  city  as  was  Madge 
herself. 

On  Frida)'  afternoon,  after  sincere  expres- 
sions of  appreciation  of  her  mother's  kindly 
help  in  these  preparations,  the  girl  took  the 
two  o'clock  train   for   New  York.     So  easer 


was  she  to  arrive  that  it  seemed  an  endless 
time  before  she  at  last  reached  her  station, 
and  saw  her  friend  awaiting  her.  Edith  was 
apparently  as  excited  as  Madge,  and  after 
many  hugs  arid  kisses,  they  were  hurried  into 
a  machine  by  Edith's  father,  and  whirled  off 
to  the  Smith  home. 

This  home  was  not  at  all  the  lovely  mansion 
the  young  guest  had  supposed  she  should  find, 
but  only  a  very  pretty  and  roomy  bungalow. 
That  evening  she  joined  the  family  at  a  good 
home-cooked  dinner,  served  in  a  simple  but 
pleasing  manner.  Here  were  none  of  the 
formalities  of  wealth,  which  she  had  expected 
so  confidently.  Mrs.  Smith  proved  to  be  as 
plain  and  simple  in  her  manners  and  as  cor- 
dial and  affectionate  as  Madge's  own  mother. 
The  girl  lost  her  heart  to  this  sweet,  lovable 
woman.  She  at  once  felt  herself  most  pleas- 
antly included  in  the  family  group.  All  went 
into  the  sitting  room  to  spend  the  evening  by 
the  open  fire.  As  Edith  had  asked  some  of 
her  chums  over  to  meet  her  roommate,  the 
circle  was  widened,  but  old  and  young  had  a 
delightful  time  together. 

Before  retiring  Madge,  realizing  how  her 
reflections  in  her  own  home  must  have  hurt 
her  mother,  wrote  home  asking  her  forgive- 
ness, saying  she  realized  the  foolish  mistake 
she  had  made  in  being  ashamed  of  her  own 
home  merely  because  of  its  simplicity  and 
quietness.  Never  again,  she  declared,  would 
she  judge  people  by  their  clothes  and  money 
alone,  but  by  their  personal  qualities. 

"All's  well,"  says  the  old  proverb,  "that 
ends  well"  ;  and  this  episode  ended  well  for 
both  Madge  and  her  mother,  bringing  them 
into  closer,  more  confidential  relations,  and 
a  sweeter  companionship. 

G.  Kcnistou. 


Everybody  listen !  What  about  those  Mis- 
sionary Dues  you  pledged  in  the  fall?  Of 
course  you  haven't  forgotten,  you  mean  to 
pay  them,  but  it's  so  hard  to  remember.  Now 
is  the  time.  If  you  haven't  already  paid,  pay 
before  you  read  another  item  in  this  paper. 

One  can  scarcely  realize  as  May  comes,  that 
we  are  soon  to  leave  Lasell,  some  of  us  to  re- 
turn as  alumnae  rather  than  students.  Beau- 
tiful days  and  thoughts  of  the  wonderful,  and 
we  hope  lasting,  friendships  which  we  have 
made,  make  us  regret  the  parting ;  but  in  or- 
der to  perform  "one's  part  in  the  world,  one 
must  progress.  The  last  weeks  should  be 
filled  with  happiness  and  good  times,  making 
friendships  stronger.  They  should  also  be 
marked  by  efforts  to  leave  with  the  school  the 
memory  of  a  loyal,  inspiring,  Lasell  girl.  Yet 
one  always  thinks  of  the  joy  of  going  out  into 
the  world.  Some  of  us  are  through  school 
and  eager  to  start  another  life.  Are  we 
capable  of  looking  that  life  in  the  face  and 
saying  we  are  ready,  we  will  do  our  best  ? 
Lasell  has  been  our  instructor,  the  protector 
of  all.  We  must  make  her  proud  of  us  when 
we  leave.  Let  us  remember  what  she  did  for 
us,  then  give  to  others  the  best  of  our  learn- 
ing. 


THE  VANISHED  EARS 


Where  are  the  ears  of  yesterday 

Which  soft  locks  used  to  frame, 
To  which  the  poet  sang  his  lay, 

The  lover  breathed  his  flame? 
Now  flapping  pads  of  hair  conceal, 

Imprison    and    suppress 
A  feature  which  was  once  revealed 

In  all  its  loveliness. 

Why  is  the  modest  little  ear 

Thus  cheated  of  its  due, 
While,     mountain-like,     bold    spines    uprear 

Their  vertebrae  to  view? 
And  ankles,  once  so  coyly  hid 

From  idle  passerby, 
Now  flaunt  their  trimness  unforbid 

To  every  heedless  eye? 

Have  those  keen  brains  that  yesterday 

This  port  of  entry  knew 
Become  too  weak  to  hear  and  weigh 

The  views  that  might  pass  through? 
If  ears  are  made  for  hearing,  dears, 

It's  cruel  and  obtuse 
To  hide  them  with  what  interferes 

With  their  intended  use. 

No   Hebe  ever  thus   defaced 

Her  charms   to   follow   fads, 
Or  sculptor  ever  dared  disgrace 

A  Venus  with  such  pads. 
The  vanished  years  of  yesterday 

Our  hearts  can  never  know, 
But,  oh !  the  ears  of  yesterday 

Let  style  again  bestow ! 


—Ex. 


LASELL   LEAVES 
SUMMERTIME  PLEASURES 


BECAUSE 


Now  is  the  season  when  the  outdoor  calls ! 
All  classes  answer,  for  its  appeal  is  universal. 
Even  the  wage-earner  has  leisure  hours  which 
he  may  spend  in  a  park  or  at  the  seashore. 

Swimming  and  diving  are  popular  sports 
as  well  as  healthful  ones.  They  bring  the 
muscles  and  lungs  in  constant  play  and  are 
fine  for  physical  development.  Young  and 
old  enjoy  them  and  you  are  never  too  old  to 
learn.  If  you  are  ambitious  you  can  become 
proficient  in  any  number  of  different  swim- 
ming strokes  and  in  diving  which  is  an  art  in 
itself. 

For  those  not  near  the  shore  there  is  usu- 
ally the  opportunity  to  play  tennis.  Every 
year  contests  for  the  championship  are  held 
and  crowds  come  from  all  parts  to  view  the 
tournaments.  This  game  is  very  old  and  has 
been  played  in  England  for  years. 

Horseback  riding  in  the  brightness  of  a  cool 
summer  morning  on  a  spirited  horse  is  truly 
delightful  and  is  equally  enjoyable  by  your- 
self or  with  companions.  There  are  so  many 
lovely  paths  through  the  woods  or  up  into 
the  mountains  which  one  can  take  and  thus 
pass  away  many  quiet  hours  in  this  enjoy- 
able sport. 

A  homely  pleasure  and  yet  one  quite  as  en- 
joyable is  becoming  acquainted  with  Mother 
Nature.  Whether  you  are  near  the  woods  or 
the  plain,  go  out  and  make  use  of  your  oppor- 
tunities. Listen  to  a  squirrel  scolding  its  mate 
as  they  gather  nuts  or,  try  to  entice  a  chip- 
munk to  eat  from  your  hand  and  then  see  if 
that  is  not  true  pleasure.  Listen  to  the  blue- 
jays  !  How  they  chatter  with  each  other ! 
Hear  the  robins  discuss  the  cherries  they  stole 
yesterday  from  Farmer  Brown's  orchard ;  you 
can  learn  their  language  if  you  will. 

Mother  Nature  abounds  in  riches  waiting 
to  be  found  and  they  are  yours  for  the  taking. 
The  great  outdoors  holds  its  gate-ways  wide 
open  in  summer  and  its  pleasures  all  await 
you. 

D.   Cunningham. 


Because 

You   are  attractive 
Yet  not  artificially  so  ; 

Because 

You  are  modest 

And  free  from  boisterous  show ; 

Because 

You  are  thoughtful 

And  seek  not  boastful  gain ; 

Because 

You  live  for  others 

Yet  are  not  proudly  vain ; 

Because 

You  are  a  sportsman 

Of  ruddy,  richest  health; 

Because 

You  are  contented. 

Not   desiring  worldly   wealth; 

Because 

You  are  sincere 

And  do  not  seek  to  flatter ; 

Because 

•    You  speak  the  truth, 
No 'difference  what  the  matter; 

Because 

You  are.  loyal 

And  at  all  times  full  of  cheer ; 

Because 

You  are  a  lover 

Of  home  and  all  that's  dear; 

Because 

You  are  natural 

At  any  time  or  place ; 

Because 

You  are  a  helper 

Of  your  kind  and  race; — 
You  will  be  loved  and  honored, 
Looked  up  to  as  Ideal, 

Because: 

You   are  a   woman 
Genuine  and   real ! 


G.  Burnet. 


Friday  evening,  April  9,  Christian  En- 
deavor was  led  by  Marjorie  Hussey.  The 
subject  of  her  talk  was  "Success."  She  told 
us  that  a  truly  successful  life  means  not  only 
to  get  things  for  one's  .own  self,  but  to  grant 
from  our  own  success  something  to  our  neigh- 
bor. To  do  this,  one  must  first  look  for  the 
best  in  others  and  give  the  best  he  has  in  him- 
self. She  also  read  a  poem  which  expressed 
what  a  life  of  truest  success  is.  Helen  Brooks 
gave  pleasure  by  a  violin  solo. 

Vesper  service  Sunday  evening,  April  11, 
was  led  by  Dr.  Chalmers  from  the  Allen  Mili- 
tary School  of  West  Newton.  He  spoke  about 
the  development  and  change  in  desire,  saying 
that  the  thing  we  desire  today  may  not  be 
the  thing  we  desire  tomorrow.  He  told  us 
that  education  consisted  of  three  things : 
first,  the  widening  of  vision;  second,  the 
quickening  of  imagination ;  and  third,  the  de- 
velopment of  ambition.  Dr.  Chalmers  closed 
by  saying  that  our  desires  and  ambitions 
should  be  attached  not  merely  to  things  of  this 
world,  but  also  to  the  things  which  build  up 
the  spiritual  side  of  life. 

At  the  close  of  the  service  Barbara  Smith, 
daughter  of  our  Mrs.  Smith,  sang  delight- 
fully. 

Thursday  evening,  April  15,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Van  Allen,  of  Boston,  demonstrated  his  power 


as  a  story  teller  by  giving  some  thrilling  ac- 
counts of  ghosts  and  their  doings.  As  the 
lights  had  been  turned  out  in  the  gym,  only 
the  fitful  gleam  from  the  fire  on  the  great 
hearth  illuminated  the  room.  This  increased 
the  creepy  effect  of  the  strange  tales  which 
we  were  not  wholly  able  to  disbelieve  as  we 
listened  or  later  as  we  discussed  together  this 
unique  and  delightful  entertainment. 

Lasell  girls  of  two  years  ago  will  remember 
that  Dr.  Van  Allen  gave  the  address  at  Com- 
mencement Vespers. 

April  16,  Christian  Endeavor  was  led  by 
Sarah  Wild.  She  told  us  the  reasons  why 
we  should  acquire  worth-while  habits.  One 
was  the  physical  reason.  If  we  try  our  best 
to  keep  in  good  physical  condition  we  are 
more  able  to  do  the  right  things  and  help 
others  around  us.  We  should  endeavor  to  ac- 
quire the  habit  of  being  joyful  and  of  spread- 
ing that  spirit  among  our  friends.  Lastly,  we 
should  have  a  thankful  heart,  a  thought  which 
was  well  illustrated  by  the  reading  of  a  short 
poem. 

At  the  close  of  the  meeting,  we  had  the 
pleasure  of  hearing  a  song  by  Dorothy  Shove. 

Sunday  evening,  April  18th,  Mrs.  Drew, 
wife  of  the  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
church,  gave  an  interesting  talk  on  China. 
Mrs.  Drew,  who  wore  a  rich  native  costume, 


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11 


had  with  her  a  large  collection  of  Chinese 
needlework  and  other  articles  of  great  value. 
Very  amusing  were  the  stories  she  told  of 
her  experiences  there.  Our  small  sisters  of 
Woodland  Park  enjoyed  this  unusual  service 
with  us.  At  the  close  of  the  service  we  were 
permitted  to  examine  these  samples  of  Chinese 
industry,  which  showed  the  remarkable  skill 
and  patience  of  that  marvelous  people.  Mrs. 
Drew  gave  great  credit  to  Dr.  Mary  Stone, 
the  wonderful  Chinese  missionary,  for  her 
work  in  China. 

After  the  basket  ball  game  of  Tuesday, 
April  20,  we  were  given  the  pleasure  of  enter- 
taining the  Sargent  girls  at  dinner.  A  pret- 
tily decorated  table  was  arranged  in  the  center 
of  the  dining  room.  Here  the  members  of 
the  teams  were  seated.  During  dinner  the 
room  echoed  with  the  voices  of  our  girls  as 
they  enthusiastically  sang  the  school  songs. 
The  representatives  from  Sargent  then  re- 
sponded with  several  unique  songs  that  called 
forth  much  applause. 

From  the  dining  room  the  girls  went  to  the 
gymnasium,  where  there  was  a  very  informal 
dance  until  the  guests  of  the  day  were  obliged 
to  leave  for  the  return  trip. 

Viola  Sullivan  led  the  meeting  of  Christian 
Endeavor  on  Friday  evening,  April  23.  Her 
talk  was  on  friendship.  She  spoke  of  the 
many  ways  in  which  we  are  helped  by  our 
friendships,  and  suggested  that,  instead  of  re- 
stricting our  friendship  to  a  few,  we  extend 
it  to  all  about  us.  At  the  close  of  the  meet- 
ing Alice  Pape  sang  very  pleasingly. 

On  Thursday,  April  22,  occurred  one  of 
the  most  delightful  and  entertaining  events 
of  the  year.  Through  the  courtesy  of  Mrs. 
Martin  we  heard  several  members  of  the 
Pozvers  School  of  Expression,  read.  Each  one 
of  the  varied  selections  was  effectively  given. 
Particularly  charming  were  the  readings  given 
by  Mrs.  Martin  herself. 

The  Rev.  Willard  Reed  of  Cambridge  led 
the  vesper  service  on  April  25.     The  contagion 


of  the  good  was  his  topic,  the  story  of  Daniel 
being  used  as  an  illustration  of  the  subject. 
Through  home,  friends  and  books  one  may 
catch  good  or  evil  thoughts  and  standards. 
One  may  also  create  in  others  love  of  good  or 
love  of  evil.  It  is,  therefore,  important  to 
entertain  as  guests  noble  thoughts  on  life  and 
on  religion  and  to  be  willing  to  show  these  to 
others. 

AVednesday  evening,  April  28,  an  unusually 
large  number  of  Lasell  students  and  of  out- 
side guests  attended  the  reception  given  by 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow.  They  were  assisted 
in  receiving  by  Miss  Packard  and  Miss 
Wright.  At  eight-thirty  a  concert  of  rare 
merit  was  given  in  the  gymnasium  by  two 
former  Lasell  students,  Miss  Gertrude  Ting- 
ley  and  Mrs.  Warren  (Lucy  Sargent),  and  by 
Mrs.  Warren's  daughter.  All  proved  them- 
selves to  be  real  artists.  The  songs  by  Miss 
Tingley  and  the  violin  numbers  by  Mrs.  War- 
ren's daughter  were  well-chosen  and  finely 
executed  and  the  accompaniments  by  Mrs. 
Warren  were  sympathetically  played.  The 
social  hour  in  the  parlors  and  later  in  the 
dining-room  was  happy  and  informal.  The 
townspeople  and  the  students  were  thoroughly 
sincere  in  their  expressions  of  appreciation  to 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  for  their  hospitality. 

As  their  part  in  the  season's  festivities  the 
Special  class  gave  a  Black  and  White  Mas- 
querade in  honor  of  the  class  of  1920.  If  one 
had  kept  watch  on  the  gym  door  at  eight 
o'clock  that  evening,  one  would  have  seen  nu- 
merous black  and  white  clad  figures  filing  into 
the  gymnasium  and  being  silently  greeted  by 
similarly  masqued  creatures  therein. 

"Joy"  at  once  took  possession  and  ruled 
throughout  the  evening.  The  Brunswick  Or- 
chestra from  Boston  furnished  fine  music  for 
dancing.  During  the  intermission  refresh- 
ments, consisting  of  ice-cream  and  fancy 
cookies  were  served.  At  eleven  o'clock  the 
Seniors  sang  their  thanks  and  in  less  formal 
ways  expressed  their  appreciation  of  this 
unique  entertainment. 


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ATHLETICS 


LASELL   LEAVES 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 


Sargent 

Rountree 
Lehr 

Garnet 
Weller 

Sprague 
Fismer 


We  have  had  but  one  really  big  game  this 
month.  This  was  with  Sargent  on  Wednes- 
day, April  21,  at  the  Lasell  gym.  Barbara 
Strebeigh  starred  for  Lasell  while  Miss  Gar- 
net did  well  for  Sargent.  The  game  was  a 
most  interesting  one  although  it  ended  with  a 
score  of  59  to  12  in  favor  of  Sargent.  The 
12,  however,  was  the  largest  score  against 
Sargent  this  year.  The  game  was  played 
with  the  following  line-up : 
Lasell 

Forzvards 
Blanche  Strebeigh 
James 
Rawlings 

Centers 
Griffin 
Hussey 

Guards 
Barbara  Strebeigh 
Rice 

The  indoor  gym  practice  is  being  changed 
little  by  little  to  outdoor  work,  such  as  tennis, 
canoeing,  baseball.  It  is  hoped  that  enough 
enthusiasm  will  be  shown,  so  that  a  baseball 
game  can  wind-up  "Field  Day."  It's  up  to 
you.    What  about  it? 

At  present  Crew  seems  to  be  the  most 
talked  of  sport.  On  nearly  every  fine  day  one 
may  see  a  party  "stroking"  on  the  Charles. 
The  swimming  and  strength  tests  must  be 
passed  in  order  to  make  Crew.  Don't  put 
them  off,  girls ;  take  them  now.  To  be  physi- 
cally fit  one  must  have  a  lung  capacity  of  150 
kilos,  total  strength  of  250,  and  a  weight  of 
between  115  and  150  lbs.  The  following  girls 
must  be  rivals  of  Samson,  they  have  such 
high  total  tests  :  Doris  Whitney,  458 ;  Eleanor 
Thompson,  431;  Katherine  Rice,  407;  Min- 
nie Brackett,  401  ;  Helen  Kirkpatrick,  382 ; 
Doris  Campbell,  378;  Rosamond  Kent,  378; 
Ffelene  Westervelt,  367 ;  Barbara  Strebeigh, 
362 ;  Helen  Conger,  354.  E.  Wheeler  and 
A.  Pape  had  the  highest  lung  capacity  of  255 
and  248  respectively. 


May  3rd,  the  5th,  6th,  7th  and  8th  grades 
spent  a  most  interesting  day  at  the  Boston  Art 
Museum.  The  chief  interest  was  centred  in 
the  Americanization  exhibit  of  handicraft  of 
the  Old  World,  which  was  collected  and  ar- 
ranged by  the  Woman's  Civic  League. 

May  8th  we  made  our  Woodland  Park  pil- 
grimage to  Plymouth.  Being  the  tercentenary 
of  the  landing  of  the  Mayflower  gave  added 
interest  to  the  many  historical  places  and 
relics  of  the  Pilgrim  colony.  We  came  away 
realizing  anew  the  self  denial  and  courageous 
loyalty  of  our  Pilgrim  forefathers  and  the 
heritage  they  have  left  us. 

We  are  glad  to  have  had  calls  from  Annie 
Crowe  Collum,  '09,  and  Sally  Greeting  Her- 
rick — also  a  former  Lasell  student. 


In  these  times  of  interruption  of  the  nor- 
mal living  too  often  pervaded  with  a  tone  of 
depression,  it  does  our  hearts  good  to  find  that 
our  old  girls  are  minding  the  wise  admonition 
received  at  Lasell  and  are  assuming  the  serious 
but  happy  responsibilities  of  homemakers. 

On  the  fifth  of  April  Dorothy  Isabelle 
Bragdon  and  Mr.  Henry  Cowie  Duffield  were 
united  in  marriage.  They  are  now  at  home 
at  186  West  Canfield  Ave.,  Detroit,  Michigan. 

The  tenth  of  April  was  the  wedding  day  of 
Ruth  Ellen  Griffin,  '16,  when  she  became  the 
bride  of  Mr.  John  James  McDonald. 

Announcement  is  received  of  the  marriage 
on  the  twenty-second  of  April  of  Helen  Rhoda 
Warner,  '18,  to  Mr.  Claire  Robert  John  Gauk- 
ler. 

An  invitation  has  been  received  to  the  mar- 
riage of  Marion  Elizabeth  Lord  to  Mr.  Charles 
Hepworth  Cobb,  which  occurred  on  the 
twenty-fourth  of  April. 

Lois  Marguerite  Brader,  '14,  became  the 
bride  of  Mr.  George  Jantzen  Buehner  on  the 
twenty-seventh  of  April. 

On  the  twenty-eighth  of  April  Darthea 
Elizabeth  Benson  became  Mrs.  Frederick 
Christopher  Witte. 

On  the  twenty-eighth  of  April  occurred  the 
marriage  of  Dorothy  Deering,  '17,  to  Mr. 
Raymond  James  Ewart. 

Margaret  Shedden  Mclntyre,  '18,  and  Mr. 
Dana  Cook  Hoffman  were  united  in  marriage 


on  the  twenty-eighth  of  April.  After  July 
the  fifteenth  they  will  be  at  home  at  Centre 
Road,  Springdale,  Pa. 

The  twenty-ninth  of  April  was  the  wedding 
day  of  Frances  Adele  Wieder,  '19,  when  she 
became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Maurice  B.  Hart- 
man. 

The  engagement  of  Mabelle  Frances  Wells 
to  Mr.  Robert  Richard  Miller  is  announced. 

Announcement  is  received  of  the  engage- 
ment of  Marion  Margaret  Griffin,  '16,  to  Mr. 
Ellsworth  Allen  Wolcott. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of 
Marguerite  C.  Houser,  '19,  to  Mr.  J.  Paul 
Hamlin  is  received. 

Our  heartiest  congratulations  to  the  dear 
parties  concerned  in  the  above  announcements. 

From  Calcutta,  India,  we  have  recently  re- 
ceived word  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold  Noble 
Weeks  (Alice  Elvira  Phillips,  '19),  are  at 
home  at  Angus  Villa,  Number  7,  Bhadreswar, 
E.I.R.,  Calcutta,  India. 

Of  all  Lasell's  alumnae  none  are  more  loyal 
than  Mrs.  Viot  (Laura  Case,  '04)  coming 
"back  home"  frequently  and  always  making 
us  glad  by  these  altogether  too  short  visits. 
With  her  this  time  she  brought  Mollie  Taylor 
Rathbun,  whom  we  have  since  heard  presides 
over  a  most  beautiful  home  in  Toledo,  Ohio. 
With  her  was  Miss  Ruth  A.  Losley,  who  has 
been  friendly  enough  to  remain  as  a  guest 
for  several  days  at   Lasell,  her  hostess  being 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Katherine  Rice,  the  president  of  our  senior 
class.  There  is  some  doubt  about  Mollie 
being  with  us  at  Commencement,  but  Mrs. 
Viot  has  promised  to  come,  especially  when 
she  was  assured  that  Dr.  Bragdon  would  be 
on  the  campus  once  more. 

Annie  Crowe  Collum,  '09,  divided  her 
time  recently  between  Lasell  and  the  Wood- 
land Park  School,  where  she  was  the  guest  of 
Mrs.  McDonald,  the  preceptress.  Annie  had 
spent  the  winter  as  usual  in  Florida  in  com- 
pany with  her  father  but  sailed  recently  from 
New  Brunswick  to  England,  intending  later 
to  visit  France.  Her  errand  is  a  sad  one  as 
she  is  to  visit  the  resting  place  of  her  soldier 
husband. 

Lydia  Adams,  '18,  is  a  real  friend  and 
proves  it  by  her  repeated  home  comings. 
This  last  time  she  was  kind  enough  to  bring 
with  her,  her  dear  mother.  It  was  a  joy  to 
have  these  loyal  friends  at  Lasell  again. 

Olive  Chase,  '19,  gladdened  us  by  spending 
a  week-end  at  Lasell  as  the  guest  of  Dorothy 
Sprague,  '20. 

What  a  proper  thing  for  them  to  do  and 
what  a  delightful  happening  for  us  that  Esther 
Ross,  '18,  and  Josephine  Burt,  '17,  decided  to 
come  back  to  New  England  during  their  spring 
vacation.  Esther,  of  course,  had  a  strong 
drawing  to  Wellesley  where  one  of  her  sisters 
is  a  junior  and  Josephine  had  brothers  in  Bos- 
ton, who  easily  persuaded  her  to  "strike"  for 
New  England.  Esther  is  a  junior  at  Michi- 
gan University  in  the  department  of  Liberal 
Arts.  Josephine  is  a  junior  in  Illinois  State 
University  and  has  been  specializing  in  for- 
estry and  gardening. 

Mary  Phipps'  mother  and  Helen  Coons' 
aunt  were  among  the  recent  welcome  guests 
at  Lasell. 

Bertha  Hayden  King,  '03,  was  just  driving 
by  with  a  friend  but  could  not  resist  the  temp- 
tation to  stop  in  at  Lasell,  and  Lasell  was 
glad  indeed  to  welcome  this  graduate.  With 
1'er  was  Bessie  Robinson  Breed. 

The  old  girls,  especially  of  the  class  of 
1912  will  be  interested  to  learn  that  Dr.  Wil- 
liam C.  Gordon  will  give  the  Baccalaureate 
vesper  service  this  coming  Commencement. 


Mrs.  Silas  Peirce  (Annie  Kendig,  '80)  spent 
part  of  the  spring  visiting  her  sister,  Mrs. 
George  Kellogg  (Carrie  Kendig,  '79)  in  Col- 
umbia, South  Carolina,  and  later  went  to 
Charleston.  From  this  old  city  by  the  sea, 
Mrs.  Peirce  wrote  an  interesting  letter  to  our 
preceptress,  part  of  which  she  has  kindly  of- 
fered to  share  with  us.  While  in  Columbia, 
we  learn  from  the  daily  press  that  Mrs.  Peirce 
gave  a  most  interesting  Lenten  talk  on  her 
personal  experiences  in  the  Holy  Land.  She 
writes  from  Charleston,  "Roses  seem  to  be 
in  full  bloom  and  palm  trees  wave  their 
branches  and  mocking  birds  sing  on  every  oc- 
casion. We  find  the  air  cold.  A  singing  bird 
was  just  outside  our  window  early  this  morn- 
ing and  late  yesterday  afternoon  on  the  Bat- 
tery the  dear  things  gave  a  Hallelujah  Chorus. 
Sunday  we  were  in  historic  St.  Michael's  in 
the  morning  and  afternoon  at  the  old  Hugue- 
not and  St.  Phillip's  churches — all  so  inter- 
esting— including  the  beautiful  old  cemeteries 
adjoining.  Monday  morning  we  went  to  Mag- 
nolia Gardens,  fourteen  miles  out  on  the  Ash- 
ley River.  It  is  one  of  the  beauty  spots  of 
the  world.  In  fact,  we  met  a  lady  who  had 
seen  all  the  shoze.'  flower  gardens  in  the  world, 
including  all  the  east,  Java,  Ceylon  and  also 
South  America,  and  Australia,  and  she  de- 
clares these  Magnolia  gardens  are  the  fairest 
— so  you  see  what  your  native  town  can  do ! 
We  very  easily  found  your  old  home,  from 
your  description.  Grace  Church  is  a  lovely 
edifice  and  kept  in  fine  order,  as  is  St.  Mich- 
ael's. They  seem  to  have  a  cement  surface 
and  are  almost  white.  To  make  perfectly  sure 
of  your  home,  we  entered  the  lower  gallery, 
with  a  door  so  typical  of  Charleston,  and  were 
greeted  by  a  lovely  looking  young  woman  who 
said,  "Yes,  this  is  the  house."  We  told  her  we 
had  a  friend  who  spent  much  of  her  child- 
hood there.  It  is  a  large  house  and  fine  gar- 
den, as  you  doubtless  remember.  There  was 
a  wonderful  "Lady  Banchia"  rose  bush  over 
a  trellis  in  full  bloom,  tiny  yellow  roses  in 
the  rear,  the  lower  house  once  used  for  slaves, 
a  stable  which  in  your  time  was  full  of  horses. 
I  could  easily  imagine  many  little  feet  running 
on  the  galleries  and  over  the  lawn,  shouting 


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15 


in  happy  careless  childhood,  just  as  my  wee 
grandsons  do  at  Meadow  Crest." 

Annie  Dimond,  '18,  now  a  woman  of  af- 
fairs, writes  from  her  office,  The  National 
India  Rubber  Company  of  Bristol,  R.  I.,  that 
she  is  anticipating  a  visit  from  Gladys  Ken- 
iston,  and  has  recently  entertained  Connie 
Allen,  '18.  Mildred  Smith  was  her  guest  at 
the  same  time.  Sis  Green  was  also  in  to  see 
her  recently  and  she  looks  fine.  Annie  closes 
with  affectionate  greetings  to  the  teachers  and 
all  her  girl  friends. 

Laura  Dale  Smith  was  the  guest  of  her  hus- 
band's family  in  Auburndale  recently  and 
made  a  friendly  call  at  the  Seminary. 

Gertrude  Clark  Rayner,  '97,  came  over  re- 
cently from  her  Newton  home,  bringing  with 
her  a  niece,  whom  we  secretly  hope  will  be 
with  us  another  year. 

Grace  Harvey  Hall,  '11,  and  her  little  son 
of  five,  who  is  so  stalwart  that  we  took  him 
for  a  seven  year  old  boy,  dropped  in  not  only 
for  a  friendly  call,  but  to  select  a  room  for 
her  little  sister  Esther,  now  taller  than  Grace. 
By  the  way  she  will  make  the  fourth  Harvey 
sister  who  has  been  in  our  school- family. 

During  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wagner's  (Mary 
Ransom)  recent  visit  with  their  son  Sanford 
at  Norfolk,  Virginia,  one  day  they  crossed 
the  bay  to  Hampton  and  were  guests  of  our 
former  instructor,  Miss  Edith  Collins.  They 
tell  of  a  delightful  day  with  their  hostess  in 
her  pleasant  school.  They  also  took  time  to 
visit  Hampton  Institute  and  were  the  guests 
of  some  of  the  commanding  officers  at  the 
fort. 

Since  our  last  issue  of  the  Leaves  two 
Lasell  boys  have  been  registered,  one,  David 
Adelsdorf  Strauss,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alex- 
ander Strauss  (Agnes  Adelsdorf,  '12),  who 
was  born  March  22nd ;  and  Robert  Went- 
worth  Lucey,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A. 
Lucey  (Marjorie  Wentworth  Watkins),  came 
at  Eastertide,  his  birth  being  April  2nd. 
Loving  congratulations  to  the  parents  and 
their  little  boys. 

Just  think,  Margaret  Chapman  has  been  in 


Boston  much  of  the  winter  studying  at  the 
Psychopathic  Hospital,  but  we  must  not  scold 
her,  for  before  leaving  for  home  she  came 
out  and  broke  bread  with  us.  She  is  just  the 
same  earnest,  sane  young  woman  she  was 
back  in  1908-'09,  and  she  hopes  to  return  next 
year.  We  expect  her  to  be  more  neighborly 
than  during  the  past  winter. 


From  Dr.  Bragdoii: 

"Marion  Joslyn  Young  lately  made  us  a 
very  pleasant  call.  She  astonished  me  by 
claiming  she  has  of  her  very  own  a  daughter 
of  fifteen  years  and  a  son  of  eighteen!  She 
and  Mr.  Young  are  making  a  business  and 
pleasure  tour  of  this  coast. 

"Bessie  Legg  Harris  of  Worcester,  also  as- 
tonished me  by  shaking  my  hand  in  church 
the  other  day.  She  and  her  three  beautiful 
daughters  have  been  here  all  winter  with  her 
father  and  mother,  who  have  bought  a  very 
desirable  place  for  a  winter  home. 

"Maine  Seaman  is  one,  however,  who  never 
fails  in  her  annual  visits  to  find  her  old  Prin- 
cipal and  help  to  make  his  exile  ( from  Lasell) 
endurable. 

"Lizzie  Whipple,  formerly  of  Wellesley, 
has  also  gladdened  the  old  eyes  by  a  sight  of 
her  bright  young  face.  From  a  tourist  she 
has  become  a  resident  and  we  are  rejoicing 
in  her  wisdom. 

"Ina  Scott  Bryant  of  Amarillo,  Texas, 
called  with  Mr.  Bryant.  We  were  very  sorry 
to  miss  their  visit.  I  am  hoping  soon  to  num- 
ber them  among  our  resident  Lasellians. 

"Clifford  Warnock,  of  Urbana,  Ohio,  had 
a  hard  time  of  it  during  her  visit.  The  hos- 
pital for  tonsils  and  various  misdemeanors 
clouded  our  usually  sunny  Pasadena  for  her. 
We  do  hope  that  her  experience  this  year  will 
not  keep  her  away  next  for  she  is  a  delightful 
addition  to  our  winter  colony.  The  rest  of 
the  family  went  to  Florida.  Very  bad  taste 
we  think. 

C.  C.  B." 
May  4,   1920. 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


JOKES 


Nine-year-old   Mary  had   just   been   to   see 
a  neighbor's  wee  baby. 

"How  did  you  like  the  new  baby?"  asked 
her  mother. 

■  "Well,"  said  Mary,  "I  thought  it  was  aw- 
fully   cute,    but    it    was    terribly    sunburned." 

Perhaps  these  jokes  are  old, 
And  should  be  on  the  shelf 
But  if  you  know  some  better  ones 
Hand  in  a  few  yourself. 


A  farmer  once  called  his  cow  "Zephyr" 
She    seemed    such    an    amiable    "Hephyr" 

When   the    farmer   drew   near 

She  kicked   off  his  ear 
And  now   the   old    farmer's   much    "dephyr." 

Contributed  by  Lasell's  "Budding  Poetess." 


"Dear  Clara,"  wrote  }he  young  man,  "Par- 
don me,  but  I'm  getting  so  forgetful.  I  pro- 
posed to  you  last  night,  but  really  forgot 
whether  you  said  yes  or  no." 

"Dear  Will,"  she  answered,  "So  glad  to 
hear  from  you.  I  know  I  said  yes  to  someone 
last  nisrht  but   I   had   forgotten  who  it  was." 


Said   he,    "I    like   the   moonshiner's   daugh- 
ter's still." 


Innocent:      "People   say    I    have   eyes   just 
like  my  father. 

Drowsy:      "Uh   huh!      Pop-eyed!" 


Helen  Prindle  (in  search  of  a  compliment)  : 
"I  was  told  the  other  night  that  I  was  an  awful 
flirt." 

Frieda  (sympathetically):  "Perhaps  all 
you  need  is  a  little  more  practice." 


"Little  boy, 

Roller  skates, 
Banana  peelin' 

Golden   trates." 


Latin  teacher :  "You  are  too  literal.  You 
don't  read  between  the  lines." 

Vi.  S.:  "I  can't  very  well.  It's  half 
erased."  — Ex. 


Lost :    "A  fountain  pen  by  a  boy  half  full." 
-Ex. 


First  Cinder :  "What  are  you  so  mad 
about  ?" 

Second  Cinder:  "I've  been  wasting  my 
time  in  a  glass  Eye." — Ex. 


The  saddest  words  of  tongue  or  pen, 
Are  these :     "Exams  have  come  again.1 


-Ex. 


Equation : — 

X=Girl  Z=Chaperon 

Y=Boy 
X+Y+Z=Misery        X+Y— Z=Bliss. 


"Tommy"  sure 
Is  a  dear. 
With  fair  Helene 
She  had  a  shear. 


Helen    Prindle   knows 
What  to  wear. 
Roman's  dressing 
Sooths  her  hair. 


Doris  Rogers  sure 
Is  a  peach. 
I'd  like  to  see 
Her  on  the  beach. 


A  little  iron — a  cunning  girl; 

A  little  powder — a  charming  girl ; 

A  little  rain — away  she  goes 

A  homely  girl — with    freckled  nose. 


Don't  worry  about  paying  your  bill.     The 
house  is  supported  by  a  foundation. 


-Ex. 


Mrs.   Gobler :      "How   many  brothers  have 
you  Willie?" 

Willie :     "One,  but  sister  Marie  has  two." 


The  B.  H.  S.  Wasp,  Beacon,  N.  Y. : 

"Your  personals  are  mighty  good,  a  great 
asset  to  a  school  paper.  Your  'Looking  For- 
ward' column  is  cleverly  arranged,  too.  Is 
your  paper  a  daily?  We  find  nothing  in  it  to 
that  effect." 

The  Eastern,  Eastern  H.  S.,  Detroit,  Mich. : 

"We  have  enjoyed  the  commencement  num- 
ber of  your  magazine  very  much  and  believe 
it  one  of  the  best  we  have  received  this  year. 
It  reveals  throughout  a  spirit  of  work  and 
good  fun." 

The    Clarion,    Arlington    H.     S.,    Arlington, 
Mass. : 

"Your  magazine  is  well  arranged  with  a 
particularly  good  literary  department,  jokes 
and  personals.  Would  not  a  page  or  two  of 
snap  shots  increase  the  interest  and  value  of 
your  magazine  ?" 

The  Budget,  Vail-Deane  School,  Elizabeth,  N. 

"Your  magazine  is  most  attractive  and  the 
cuts  are  cleverly  drawn.  We  found  your  il- 
lustrated school  notes  of  interest." 

The  Columbian,  Columbia,  S.  C. : 

"Your  editorial  for  the  March  number  was 
very  impressive.  It  certainly  should  bring  re- 
sults from  a  school  like  yours.  There  is  good 
material  among  your  students.  We  wish  the 
next  staff  success  for  the  coming  year." 


The  News,  East  Orange,  N.  J.: 

"We  believe  a  bi-weekly  paper  such  as  you 
put  out  a  great  advantage  to  a  high  school 
Your  exchange  column  is  certainly  handled  i.i 
a  clever  way." 
The   Laconic,   Williamstown,   Mass. : 

"We  received  your  request  for  an  exchange 
but  regret  to  say  we  failed  to  receive  your 
paper." 

The   Scribbler,    Spartanburg   H.    S.,    Spartan- 
burg, S.  C. : 

"We  envy  you  the  splendid  material  which 
fills  your  literary  department.  Would  not  a 
few  personals  increase  among  the  students 
'he  in'erest  of  your  magazine?" 


OUR  CRITICS 


Lasell  Leaves,  Boston,  Mass. :  "A  stranger 
having  read  the  editorial  for  the  Thanksgiving 
number  would  judge  Lasell  to  be  a  school  of 
high  ideals.  If  your  editorials  on  Getting 
Acquainted  were  put  into  practice,  there  would 
be  fewer  homesick  girls  at  the  beginning  of 
the  school  year.  Your  Personals  Department 
are  especially  well  written,  and  are  of  interest 
even  to  those  who  do  not  know  the  girls.  The 
snapshots  scattered  through  the  reading  mat- 
ter improve  the  magazine  immensely.  A 
splendid   school   spirit  is   shown. 

St.  Helen's  Hall,  Portland,  Oregon. 

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FOR  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
"  Once  a  Lasell  girl,  always  a  Lasell  girl." 

"ONCE  UPON  A  TIME"  NUMBER 

"All  articles  or  "bits  of  gossip"  for  the  Supplement  should  be  sent  to  the  Supplement  Editor - 

Lillian  M.  Packard 


TUNE— YANKEE  DOODLE 


5x5  are  25 

5x6  are  30 

5x7  are  35 
And  5  x  8  are  40 

5  x  9  are  45 

5  x  10  are  50 

5  x  11  are  55 
And  5  x  12  are  60 
This  old  rhyme  which  helped  us  through  the 
multiplication  table  comes  again  to  mind  as 
we  welcome  heartily  this  Commencement  sea- 
son the  classes  that  are  divisible  by  five.  To 
each  and  all  a  welcome  but  to  the  Class  of 
1895  a  special  greeting.  From  north  and 
south  and  east  and  west  they  are  coming,  many 
in  person  and  others  in  spirit  just  to  be  girls 
again  at  the  old  school.  Welcome,  thrice  wel- 
come. How  much  more  the  re-union  will 
mean  to  them  because  their  own  principal  will 
be  back  here  with  them,  so  the  graduating  class 
will  appreciate  our  present  principal  when  they 
celebrate  their  quarter-centennial. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  these  gala  days 
would  miss  much  if  the  Class  of  1919  did  not 
return  in  good  numbers  to  do  honor  to  their 
torchbearers. 


THE  LASELL  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION 


rally  on  the  lawn  in  front  of  Bragdon  Hall 
Commencement  Day  at  2.00.  They  invite  the 
faculty,  past  and  present,  the  Class  of  1920, 
the  alumnae,  former  students,  and  friends  to 
greet  Dr.  Bragdon,  our  principal  emeritus, 
and  Mrs.  Bragdon,  Dr.  Winslow  our  principal, 
and  Mrs.  Winslow.  This  is  to  be  informal, 
an  old-time  get-together,  for  friendship's  sake. 
Let  us  make  it  the  happiest  hour  of  the  week, 
meeting  old  friends  and  making  new  ones. 
Classes  are  asked  to  wear  their  class  insignia 
and  be  ready  to  sing  their  class  songs  and  give 
their  stunts  and  cheers. 

The  annual  business  meeting  will  be  held  at 
the  close  of  the  Commencement  Exercises. 
Place  to  be  announced. 


In  The  Supplement  for  this  month  we  pay 
special  tribute  to  two  members  of  the  Lasell 
faculty  who  had  an  active  part  in  the  early 
days  of  Lasell's  history,  Miss  Catherine  J. 
Chamberlayne,  whose  long  and  eventful  life 
has  just  closed,  and  to  Professor  Joseph  Alden 
Hills,  who  is  still  an  active,  successful  and 
popular  teacher  in  our  musical  department. 


PROF.  JOSEPH  ALDEN  HILLS 


Will  combine  its  Annual   Meeting  and  the 
postponed  mid-winter  Re-union  in  a  splendid 


Professor  Joseph  Alden  Hills  has  taught 
music  at  Lasell  continuously,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  an  occasional  vacation  abroad  since 
1873,  and  has  always  set  a  high  standard  for 


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the  school  along  musical  lines.  A  student  of 
music  as  well  as  a  teacher  he  has  kept  abreast 
of  the  times  and  today  is  one  of  our  up-to- 
date  instructors  teaching  in  some  instances  by 
request  the  daughters  of  his  earlier  pupils. 

Professor  Hills  has  always  been  vitally  in- 
terested in  athletics  and  has  had  an  active  part 
in  them  as  well.  Many  of  the  former  pupils 
will  remember  him  as  an  expert  in  tennis,  a 
bicycle  rider,-  an  enthusiastic  golf  player,  and 
now  he  enjoys  his  automobile.  It  sometimes 
seems  as  if  he  had  discovered  the  fountain  of 
eternal  youth  so  straight  does  he  walk  among 
us. 

He  is  spoken  of  in  the  International  "Who's 
Who  in  Music"  as  an  organist,  composer,  and 
pianist.  After  his  education  in  this  country 
he  studied  abroad  in  Berlin  for  three  years 
at  Tausige's  Schule  des  hoheren  Clavierspiels, 
was  under  the  instruction  in  Harmony  and 
Composition  of  Carl  Weitzman.  He  taught 
in  Berlin  and  later  was  eight  years  an  instruc- 
tor in  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music.  As  organist  he  served  at  "Church 
Green,"  Dr.  Webb's  church  and  St.  Paul's 
(now  the  Cathedral  Church).  He  has  com- 
posed solos  for  the  violin  and  'cello,  piano 
pieces  and  songs. 


Professor  Hills  has  a  host  of  friends  among 
the  faculty  and  students,  past  and  present,  who 
appreciate  him  for  his  friendliness  and  his 
loyalty  to  the  school.  In  1899  The  Lasell 
Alumnae  Association  celebrated  his  silver  an- 
niversary in  connection  with  that  of  Dr.  Brag- 
don,  and  if  all  goes  well  it  will  be  their  pleas- 
ure to  honor  his  golden  anniversary  not  many 
years  hence. 


MISS  CATHERINE  J.  CHAMBERLAYNE 


The  death  of  Miss  Catherine  J.  Chamber- 
layne,  principal  of  the  school  for  girls  which 
bears  her  name  has  removed  from  the  ranks 
of  Boston  teachers  a  woman  of  interesting  and 
distinguished  personality.  As  a  teacher  she 
was  an  unusual  influence,  strong,  penetrating, 
exhilarating.  Among  her  old  pupils  the  fa- 
vorite name  for  her  was  "The  Queen,"  and  her 
crown  became  her  well.  Her  rule  was  never 
arbitrary  or  petty  and  never  for  a  moment 
dull.  It  was  bright  and  keen,  merry  and  just, 
as  gracious  in  praise  as  it  was  righteous  in 
scorn.  Socially  she  was  a  delight,  possessed 
of  the  infinite  tact  which  comes  of  a  quick  in- 
telligence and  a  quicker  sympathy.  She  was 
not'  so  much  of  an  idealist  as  a  lover  of  life. 
In  the  face  of  obstacles  her  spirit  was  in- 
domitable. Courage  and  hope  were  as  nat- 
ural to  her  as  breathing. — From  Boston  Tran- 
script. 

Ellen  Urania  Clark  Gill,  '70. 

Although  Miss  Chamberlayne  has  not  been 
an  active  member  of  our  faculty  for  some 
years  she  has  never  lost  her  interest  in  Lasell, 
has  spent  some  of  her  vacation  days  with  us 
and  at  our  last  Commencement  was  the  guest 
of  honor  at  our  alumnae  meeting,  fifty  years 
from  her  first  connection  with  our  school.  She 
had  many  friends  here. 


A  TRIBUTE 


"Blessings  she  was!     God  made  her  so." 
We  all  felt  it  to  be  so,  who  have  been  privi- 


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FROM    AN    OLD    ALBUM 

leged  to  know  Miss  Chamberlayne.  She  was 
sincere,  sympathetic,  and  courageous.  To 
think  of  her  now  is  an  inspiration. 

A  month  before  she  left  us,  it  was  my  privi- 
lege to  spend  a  few  hours  with  her  in  her 
Fenway  home.  She  decided  to  go  down  to 
dinner  with  her  school  family,  and  though 
frail  and  feeble,  and  suffering  from  her  great 
weakness,  the  moment  she  entered  the  dining 
room,  her  great  personality  dominated  it.  She 
discussed  freely  a  biography  she  was  reading 
then  the  approaching  presidential  campaign 
claimed  her  attention  and  a  characteristic  re- 
mark remains  with  me.  "Thank  God  I  can 
still  think !  The  wonder  to  me  is  that  so  few 
people  do  so." 

Miss  Chamberlayne  faced  each  day  with 
head  erect  and  flags  flying.  In  the  face  of 
sorrow  and  difficulties,  her  courage  never 
flagged.  She  gave  to  every  girl  who  came 
under  her  influence  an  ideal  of  gracious  and 
tactful  womanhood. 

We  are  glad  of  the  memory  she  leaves  us 
of  the  few  days  at  Lasell  in  June  last  when 


the  Lasell  Alumnae  loved  to  honor  her  on  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  first  coming  to 
Lasell  as  a  teacher.  Her  reminiscences  were 
merry  and  brilliant  and  we  had  a  vision  of 
the  grand  dame  of  her  prime  in  the  still  beau- 
tiful and  charming  woman. 

It  was  her  privilege  to  live  with  and  in- 
fluence youth  till  she  came  to  face  the  great 
future  as  she  had  the  daily  task,  with  courage 
and  faith. 

Statira  Preble  McDonald. 
In  reply  to  a  note  to  Miss  Chamberlayne's 
friend  the  following  letter  has  come  to  Mrs. 
McDonald,  which   she  shares  with  us : 
My  dear  Mrs.  McDonald: 

To  my  lasting  regret  your  note  came  too  late 
for  me  to  do  anything  about  writing  a  tribute 
to  dear  C.  J.  for  insertion  in  the  Leaves. 

T  very  well  remember  being  her  guest  often 
while  she  was  in  Auburndale.  In  fact,  now 
that  I  know  more  about  girls'  boarding  schools, 
I  see  the  girls  must  have  regarded  me  with 
interested  curiosity,  a  mysterious  personage 
even  if  partially  accounted  for  as  a  Harvard 
undergraduate.  She  was  the  occasion  of  the 
first  speech  I  ever  made  ( and  until  recently 
almost  the  last,  although  I  am  professor  of 
Public  Speaking  at  Columbia).  It  was  during 
the  fall  recess,  and  my  brother  and  myself  and 
one  of  the  homeless  others  went  out  there  to 
Thanksgiving  dinner.  It  was  a  very  gracious 
affair  as  was  everything  she  superintended. 
But  she  and  I  often  laughed  over  the  black 
marks  I  scored  against  her  when,  without  noti- 
fication of  either,  she  asked  me  to  carve  a  duck 
and  to  say  a  few  words.  The  former  I  landed 
into  a  young  lady's  silken  lap,  the  latt«  r  gave 
me  a  humiliation  from  which  I  ru  ver  re- 
covered— as  our  dear  friend  had  been  forever 
prattling  to  the  girls  about  my  so-called  showi- 
ness  at  college. 

All  my  life  "C.  J."  has  been  teaching  me 
something.  School  books  first,  and  lessons  in 
breeri:ng.  As  regards  the  latter,  she  hit  with 
sik-li  brilliance  the  compromise  between  ele- 
ganc.e  and  individuality,  that  for  this  alone  I 
have  always  thought  the  association  between 


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her  girls  and  herself  must  have  been  a  price- 
less experience.  And  then  so  many  other  les- 
sons !  Of  friendliness,  of  humor,  of  the 
necessity  of  gayety  in  face  of  life's  hard  con- 
ditions, of  pluck  and  indomitable  persever- 
ance. I  perhaps  knew  her  longer  than  any- 
body else,  in  the  sense  of  having  come  close 
to  her  when  a  child  and  having  kept  step 
with  her  for  forty  years,  and  also  in  the  sense 
I  am  glad  to  remember  of  having  been  ad- 
mitted to  a  tender  intimacy  on  account  of  her 
nephew.  And  thus  I  should  have  been  grate- 
ful for  the  privilege  of  saying  something  about 
her  rare,  gracious,  and  racy  personality.  She 
is  and  will  remain  I  think  the  first  flower 
along  my  pathway. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

Algernon  Tassin. 


THE  OLD  BANNERS 


Nothing  speaks  louder  or  recalls  more 
memories  at  Commencement  than  the  proces- 
sion of  banners  around  the  old  Chapel.  Every 
returning  alumna  glances  with  approval  at 
the  class  banner  for  the  current  year  and  then 
with  a  warmer  feeling  about  her  heart  and 
arm  in  arm  with  one  or  more  girls  of  her  time 
hunts  for  her  own  banner.  Sometimes  she 
says  almost  under  her  breath,  "around  an- 
other corner."  If  she  belongs  to  the  third 
and  fourth  decades  she  will  tell  of  the  tragic 
experiences  that  the  girls  had  in  making  that 
pendant,  the  oil  spot,  the  embroidery,  the 
fringe,  etc.,  while  at  least  one  will  admit  that 
her  banner  was  never  completed.  The  later 
banners  are  perhaps  from  an  artistic  stand- 
point more  beautiful,  but  they  cannot  mean 
so  much  to  the  girls  for  they  are  "made  to 
order,"  unless  it  be  to  the  two  who  thereby 
received  permission  to  go  to  Boston  to  give 
the  critical  order. 

To  those  who  are  fond  of  mystery  and  sym- 
bolism the  early  banners  which  smack  of 
heraldry  will  appeal.  They  were  made  and 
planned  by  the  husband  of  Isabel  Jennings 
Parker  '57  and  have  many  a  hidden  meaning. 
The  letters  on  some  of  them  suggest  the  secret 


class  motto  which  the  returning  members  of 
these  classes  still  refuse  to  divulge.  That 
some  of  these  groups  lived  in  civil  war  times 
is  still  evident.  / 

Parallel  with  the  banners  in  interest  and 
possibly  exceeding  them  are  the  class  pictures 
between  which  we  have  to  run  a  gauntlet  in 
going  to  the  gymnasium.  Not  only  are  they 
the  reminders  of  the  girls  who  made  good  and 
overcame  the  obstacles  in  the  path  to  gradu- 
ation but  up  to  the  time  of  "caps  and  gowns" 
they  are  a  study  in  the  fashions  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  to  say  nothing  of  the  methods 
of  hairdressing.  It  is  hard  to  imagine  that 
the  attractive  old  daguerreotype  of  the  girl 
with  the  curls  is  the  dear  lady  of  over  eighty 
in  Paris  today  who  painted  the  beautiful  pic- 
ture "The  Judgment  of  Paris,"  or  that  this  one 
farther  tip  the  line  is  our  preceptress,  or  that 
another  bright  faced  maiden  is  now  the  mother 
of  seven  children  and  still  another  has  been  a 
teacher  in  the  Phillipines  and  so  the  stories  go. 
Nothing  interests  more  the  stranger  within  our 
gates  than  this  portrait  gallery  and  nothing 
perhaps  is  a  better  recommendation  for  Lasell. 
The  one  regret  that  results  from  our  larger 
classes  is  the  impossibility  of  having  them 
added  to  this  gallery. 

Much  is  due  to  the  painstaking  care  of  Miss 
Genn  that  these  pictures  and  banners  have 
been  kept  in  good  condition  through  the  years 
and  the  writer  heard  from  her  lips  recently 
for  the  first  time  the  beginning  of  their  public 
life.  In  the  first  year  of  Dr.  Bragdon's  prin- 
cipalship,  in  his  research  in  the  archives  of 
his  new  possessions  the  treasures  of  which  we 
are  writing  were  found.  In  a  dark  closet  in 
one  of  the  music  rooms  under  the  eaves  were 
discovered  some  books  belonging  to  the  former 
principal  and,  dust-covered  and  water-stained, 
the  banners  and  pictures  of  the  former  gradu- 
ates. With  his  usual  discernment  he  knew  the 
value  and  interest  connected  with  this  dis- 
covery. He  sent  the  pictures  and  daguerreo- 
types to  Boston  to  an  expert  to  be  restored 
and  the  heraldic  banners  to  Mr.  Parker,  their 
originator,  to  be  renovated.     They  were  com- 


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pleted  and  ready  for  the  Commencement  of 
1875  and  were  hung  in  the  Chapel  for  the  first 
time  on  the  day  that  the  Lasell  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation was  organized.  Who.  can  doubt  that 
his  thoughtfulness  of  the  students  of  an  earlier 
regime  had  a  strong  influence  in  bringing  about 
the  long-continued  and  much  prized  friend- 
ship of  the  first  graduates. 

The  first  five  names  in  the  Faculty  List  in 
the  first  catalog  sent  out  by  Dr.  Bragdon  in 
September,  1874,  are : 

Catherine  J.  Chamberlayne 

Charles  C.   Bragdon 

Caroline  A.  Carpenter 

Angeline  C.  Blaisdell 

Joseph  A.  Hills 
In  those  days  of  new  beginnings  these  con- 
stituted more  than  half  of  the  faculty,  but 
what  Lasell  girl  would  intimate  that  it  was 
small  in  the  presence  of  such  a  quintet  of 
names.  Four  of  them  had  served  under  the 
former  principal.  Dr.  Cushing,  and  possibly 
nothing  showed  more  clearly  the  sane  judg- 
ment of  the  new  principal,  a  young  man,  than 
the  continuance  in  service  of  these  four  teach- 
ers so  wisely  chosen  by  his  predecessor.  To- 
gether this  group  have  given  to  Lasell  about 
one-hundred  and  fifty  years  of  service. 


SCHOOL  SOUVENIRS 


Through  the  thoughtfulness  of  a  family 
friend  of  one  of  the  Class  of  '57  there  has 
come  to  Dr.  Winslow  a  number  of  the  early 
catalogs,  programs,  and  clippings  which  con- 
cern Lasell.  The  program  of  a  "Soiree  Musi- 
cale  and  Tableaux"  held  on  Wednesday  even- 
ing, January  30,  1856,  would  compare  favor- 
ably with  that  of  one  of  the  musical  recitals 
of  today.  We  can  easily  imagine  the  girls  of 
those  days  rushing  about  preparing  for  the 
tableaux,  "The  Stolen  Kiss,"  "Woman's 
Rights."  "May  Day  Morning."  From  a  news- 
paper clipping  of  "Lasell's  Golden  Jubilee" 
in  1906  we  are  reminded  that  forty-three 
classes  were  represented.     We  also  read  that 


the  Class  of  '56  whose  fiftieth  anniversary  was 
celebrated  on  that  day  made  a  record  believed 
to  be  unsurpassed  anywhere — out  of  a  class  of 
ten  seven  were  present,  one  had  died,  one  was 
in  Japan,  and  one  in  France.  Cablegrams 
were  received  from  the  two  in  foreign  lands. 
In  this  same  collection  is  the  autograph 
album  of  Miss  Emma  Sears,  '57,  and  it  reveals 
long-forgotten  secrets.  On  one  page  are  the 
members  of  "The  S.S.,"  organized  December 
10,  1856,  in  No.  2  M.  C.  Hall.  Besides  the 
usual  officers  there  is  one  who  is  "The  Scape- 
goat," and  another  "The  Assistant  Scapegoat," 
and  still  another  "Scratch."  One  writer  has 
this  over  her  signature,  "You  were  the  first 
one  who  spoke  a  word  of  welcome  to  the 
lonely  timid  school  girl  two  years  ago.  And 
now  that  my  course  is  finished  and  I  must 
leave  all  these  friends  who  have  twined  them- 
selves around  my  heart,  my  thoughts  turn  to 
you  and  I  will  ever  remember  you  as  one  of 
my  dearest  friends."  (This  friendship  lasted 
over  fifty  years.) 


LASELL  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION  ORGANIZED 


A  newspaper  clipping  from  this  same  source 
tells  of  the  organization  of  the  Lasell  Alumnae 
Association  in  June,  1775.  It  was  called 
Alumnae  Day  and  there  were  literary  exer- 
cises in  the  morning,  one  of  the  features  of 
which  was  a  paper  by  our  Angeline  C.  Blais- 
dell, '67,  with  words  of  welcome.  In  closing 
she  said,  "As  we  hope  to  meet  here  from  time 
to  time,  may  the  old  spot  make  us  young  once 
more,  and  when  the  name  upon  our  roll  shall 
be  marked  'absent'  may  the  whole  alumnae 
association  of  Lasell  meet  in  that  eternal 
chapel,  where  no  roll  will  be  called,  and  where 
never  again .  shall  be  uttered  that  word  'fare- 
well.' "  This  was  followed  by  the  permanent 
organization  of  the  Association  with  the  fol- 
lowing officers  :  President,  Mrs.  Josiah  Lasell, 
vice-president,  Miss  Luella  Dadman ;  corre- 
sponding secretary,  Miss  Urania  Clark ;  re- 
cording secretary,  Miss  Mary  Jones ;  treas- 
urer, Mrs.  Henry  Dike. 


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Lasell  Leaves  has  an  excellent  joke  depart- 
ment and   novel  cuts. 

The  Budget,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Lasell  Leaves :  "The  snapshots  in  your 
book  are  good.  We  notice  that  your  Athletic 
column  is  very  small." 

Orange  and  Black,  Weehawken,  N.  J. 

Lasell  Leaves.     "You  have  a  fine  exchange 
department  and  your  cuts  are  splendid." 
Oak  Leaves,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

The  Lasell  Leaves — "As  good  as  ever." 
Drury  Academe,  North  Adams,  Mass. 


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at  the  lowest  possible  price — these 
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The  dress  sketched  shows  the  unusual 
distinctiveness  which  even  a  serge  dress 
may  possess  if  it  bears  our  name. 

Suits,  dresses,  coats,  blouses,  hats  and 
accessories  for  Lasell  Girls. 


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THE  ISLAND  CAMP  FOR  GIRLS 

For  Booklet  address  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Towne 

Lasell  Seminary,  Auburndale  66,  Mass. 


C.  W.  THOMPSON  &  CO. 

2B  PARK  ST.,  BOSTON 

IHuatr  Sralwa 


ALSO   PUBLISHERS  OF   THIS  STORY 

BUTTON'S  BIT 

The  Story  of  a  Dog 

A  Dog  story  for  children  and  grown-ups.  A  touching 
tale  of  how  a  real  live  curly-haired  doggie  did  "  his  bit " 
by  sacrificing  his  beautiful  white  coat  to  make  a  pair  of 
warm  socks  for  a  soldier.  A  booklet,  that  if  read  to 
children,  wakens  and  stimulates  an  interest  in  dumb  ani- 
mals.    Two  editions. 

Booklet,  with  ten  illustrations,  post-paid,  25  cents. 

Folded  card  with  Picture  and  Story  of  Button,  10 

cents.     $  1 .00  per  dozen. 

Orders  for  Music  filled  the  same  dav  a>  received 


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CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


N?uit0tt  ®ntat  (Enmpcttuj 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices  : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Aubum  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-1 


Telephone,  Richmond  731-732 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL 


F.  M.  SCOBORIAl 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7   New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 
( NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,   MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 


HOTEL  SUPPLIES 
57  and  58  N.  Market  St. 


Boston 


LEATHER    NOVELTIES 

Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 


Hand  Bags 
Jewel  Cases 
Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape   Gloves  at   $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


60  Franklin  Street  I 

near  Washington  Street    ( 


BOSTON 


P.  P  ADAMS 

Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 

business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

Best-Known     Shopping 

Place 

Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to    139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


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Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92   Bedford  Street,   Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  28 1 1 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 
BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond   1 729 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese.  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


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Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid   in  $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Vegetables 

Nos.  88,    90    and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 
Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

H.    F.    RICE,    Pres. 
C.  H.  CUMM1NG,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone   1552  Richmond 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  Mgr. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese    and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for   those 
not  wishing  the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place  '      15  West  Street 


omnt'a  Hats 


FOR  DRESS   AND   SPORT  WEAR 
RIDING   HATS  STRAW  SAILORS 


(tats 


Domestic  and  English  Manufacture 

BURBERRY'S  LONDON  COATS 

POLO   COATS  RAINCOATS 

LEATHER   COATS 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the  pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter -Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 

CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established   1840 
Store  77-79  Sudbury  St.  Boston.  Mass. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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NEW 


PLAID 
SKIRTS 

$25.00 


Box  plaited  skirts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


L  P.  Hollander  Co. 

MISSES'  AND  YOUNG   LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -       Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 
Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's        Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


1  he  Boston  lVlusic  Co. 


(G.   Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :  Beach    1561 


9X  Briers 

TZorists 

44  TEMPLE  PLACE 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

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Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 

22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE    PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipts 

Packed  in   Stone  Jars 

A.  T.   BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78   Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577   Haymarket 
Send   for   price  list   of  over  60   kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
pjarmariai 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


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Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to     $65.00 
Guitars    -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins       -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin   Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor   Banjoe,   Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.  BERMAN,  Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299  Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newton  West  965 -] 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies'    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresse 

303  AUBURN  ST.,  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 
AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College     Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1  45 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 


Wholesale   Grocers 


48  &  49  India  Street 


Boston 


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Our  Shopping  Counselor 

Will  gladly  give  you  expert  aid  and  sound  advice  in  planning 

Your  Summer  Wardrobe 

Outfitting  for  camp  life  is  only  one  special  feature  of  her  service 
Settle  the  clothes  problem  before  warm  weather  and  avoid  that  pre-vacation  rush. 
Have  it  all  off  your  mind  early  this  year,  and  know  the  joy  of  hats,  coats,  suits,  dresses 
and  shoes,  all  chosen  with  that  correct  relation  to  one  another  which  is  the  basic  prin- 
ciple of  being  well  dressed  without  undue  extravagance 

Our  Counselor  will  save  you  Energy,  Time  and  Money 


At  your  service  daily 


Gown  Salon — Second  Floor— Main  Store 


Jordan    Marsh    Company 

Boston's  —  and  New  England's  —  Greatest  Store 


New    Goods 
Arrive  Every  Day 


Diamonds 
Watches 
Bracelet  Watches 
Platinum  Jewelry 
Green  Gold  Jewelry 
Gold  Pocket  Knives 
Gold  Pencils 


Silver  Goods 
Fancy  Bead  Chains 
Roman  Pearls 
Cameo  Brooches 
Vanity  Cases 
Doreen  Boxes 
Photo  Frames 
Rock  Crystal  and  Cut  Glass 


Leather  Goods 
Fountain  Pens 
Chafing  Dishes 
Percolators 
Parisian  Ivory 
Ebony  Goods 
Panel  Minors 


Our    Watch   and    Jewelry    Repair    Department!    do    the    best 

work  at  very  low  prices 

Engraving   Department 

Plate  and    100     Visiting     Cards,     Script     $2.75 
Plate  and    100   Visiting   Cards,   Old   Eng.   $4.75 

MR.  F.  F.  DAVIDSON    ....     AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


161    Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  858 


164  Tremont  St. 
Tel.  Beach  2687 


306  Fifth  Ave. 

392  Fifth  Ave. 

New  York 


B0ST0P 


QUALITY  IS  EVERYTHING 

Naturally,  having  spent  many  years  in  the  making  of  portraits, 
we  have  very  positive  ideas  on  that  subject.  To  our  mind  a 
quality  portrait  should  have  distinction  of  pose,  originality  of 
mounting  and  that  virility  of  delineation  which  makes  the  on- 
looker say  to  himself :  "  A  Perfect  Likeness  ! " — and  also  to 
our  mind  a  quality  portrait  should  sell  at  a  reasonable  price, 
AS  OURS  DOES. 
WE  TAKE  PLEASURE  IN  ANNOUNCING  TO  THE  STUDENTS 
OF  LASELL  OUR  NEW  AND  EXCLUSIVE  PARIS  ETCHING 

Special  Rates  to  Lasell  Students 


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Dress-smartness  is  not  merely  Style  —  it  is  Style  plus 
Good  Taste,  and  entirely  governed  by  the  latter. 
Slattery  Suits,  Coats,  Gowns  and  Accessories  for  women 
and  misses  are  notably  individual,  planned  to  fit  various 
types  —  yet  always  exclusive  and  of  refined  design. 
From  Hats  to  Hosiery,  from  Furs  to  the  lightest  Fan 
for  evening,  the  woman's  wants  are  considered. 

Betty  Wales  Frocks  Are  More  Delight- 
ful   This    Season     Than    Ever    Before. 


E.T.  SLATTERY  CO. 

TREMONT  STREET -BOSTON 

Opposite  Boston.  Common 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Chenille  Rugs  and  Speed 


""THE  two  don't  go  together  any  more.  If  you  desire  to  adom  a  room  or  hall  or  stairway 
with  these  superb  made-to-order  Rugs,  come  and  see  us  as  soon  as  possible,  as  some 
time  will  be  required. 

We  can  show  you  samples  of  all  colors  and  designs.  Our  know-how  men  will  take 
the  measurements  and  advise  as  to  tone  effects.     The  mills  will  do  the  rest. 

Plain  colors  with  two-tone  band  borders  are  favorites.  Speaking  of  plain  colors,  here 
are  a  few  of  the  many — grey,  blue,  green,  wistaria,  camel,  rose,  sand,  lavender,  cocoa,  taupe 
faun,  mulberry,  mole,  cafe-ati-Iait,  putty. 

These  made-to-measure  Rugs  are  seamless  up  to  thirty  feet  width.  Good  for  any  room 
and  good  the  year  round.     Soft  as  velvet  under  foot,   yet  last  for  years  and  years.     Wide 


range 


of 


prices. 


John  H.  Pray  &  Sons  Co. 

646  Washington  St.,  Opp.  Boylston,  Boston 


Meyer  Jonasson  &  Co. 

TREMONT  &  BOYLSTON  STS.,  BOSTON 


Suits,   Gowns,   Coats, 

Blouses,   Skirts,   Silk 

Petticoats,  Sweaters 

and  Furs 


Garments  for  Seminary  Girls 
a  Special  Feature 


School 
Stationery 


Note  Books 

Students'  Paper 

Fountain  Pens,  etc. 


Engraved  and  Printed 

Programs  —  Invitations  —  Dance  Orders 


THE    BEACON   HILL   STATIONERS 

Pemberton  7  Square 

BOSTON     -      -     MASSACHUSETTS 
Telephone  686  Haymarket 


IkSELL    [EAVES 


Vol.  XXXXV           LASELL  SEMINARY,  AUBURNDALE  66, 

BOSTON, 

MASS. 

JUNE,  1920              No.  9 

Published  Monthly   from   October  to   June   by   the 

Lasell 

Seminary   Students. 

Entered  as  second-class   matter   at  the   Boston 

Mass 

.,   Post 

Office. 

Acceptance   for   mailing   at    special   rate  of  postage  provided   for   in  Section   1103,  / 

Vet  of  October 

3,  1917, 

authorized  on  October   28,    1918 

LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

Business    Manager                                                               Editor-in-Chief 

Subscription    Editor 

MARION    BODWELL                                              ELSIE    CROWELL 

MARION  STEVENS 

Local    Editors                                                                  Assistant    Editor 

Assistant 

VIRGINIA  UUSSEY                                            FLORENCE    GREEN 

DOROTHY  SHOVE 

LILLIAN   FONTAINE 

Art    Editors 

Literary  Editor 

T  ,      p,.+                                                           RUTH    ORDWAY 
Joke    Editor 

JULIA   RUSSELL                                                      NELL  WEST 

BLANCHE   CORIN 
Exchange   Editor 

Assistant                                                                  Athletic  Editor 

MARGARET  LOOMIS 

DORIS    BROWN                                                MILDRED    KNIGHT 

VIOLET    COMLEY 

TERMS,  in  Advance:    One  Copy,  one  year,    (including   postage), 

$1.00. 

Single 

Copies,   15  cents. 

CONTENTS 

FRONTISPIECE ....  4 

LITERARY 

Forbearance Emerson  5 

The  Desert  Village L.  Tenny  5 

A  Pillow  Fight        6 

Legend  of  the  Fire  Opals E.  Russell  7 

EDITORIAL 8 

LOCALS 9 

WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 23 

PERSONALS • 25 


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FORBEARANCE 


"Hast  thou  named  all  the  birds  without  a  gun  ? 
Loved  the  wood-rose  and  left  it  on  the  stalk? 
At  rich  men's  tables  eaten  bread  and  pulse? 
Unarmed,  faced  danger  with  a  heart  of  trust? 
And  loved  so  well  a  high  behavior, 
In  maid  or  man,  that  thou  from  speech  re- 
frained 
Nobility  more  nobly  to  repay? 
O,  be  my  friend  and  teach  me  to  be  thine." 

Emerson. 


THE  DESERT  VILLAGE 


I  have  never  made  any  very  lengthy  sojourn 
in  the  land  of  the  Saturday  night  bath.  But 
I  have  seen  enough  of  it  so  that  these  lovely 
poetic,  romantic,  sentimental  descriptions  of 
a  peaceful  town;  snuggling  in  a  pleasant  vale, 
redolent  with  the  fragrance  of  flowers  and 
full  of  the  atmosphere  of  contentment  irritate 
me  considerably.  They  always"  give  me  the 
impression  that  the  writer  never  could  have 
been  outside  of  New  York  City.  I  suppose 
you  are  shocked  at  hearing  such  iconoclastic 
sentiments  expressed  by  one  so  young!  But 
have  you  ever  been  motoring  in  August 
through  the  middle  west  ?  Have  you  ever 
spent  the  night  in  one  of  those  hotels  of 
pastoral  romance?  Or  have  you  merely  read 
"The  Deserted  Village"  ?  Well— I've  done 
both. 

My  father,  mother,  and  I  thought  we  would 
drive  from  St.  Louis  to  Jackson,  where  we 
were  to  visit  friends.  We  had  traveled  for 
hours   through   what  may  have  been   waving 


fields  of  grain  or  a  Sahara  Desert.  I  have  no 
distinct  impression  of  it.  All  I  know  is  that 
the  road  was  long  and  straight  and  bumpy, 
and  that  it  reflected  the  glaring  sun  straight 
into  our  faces.  On  every  hand  dust  rose  like 
a  cloud.  If  we  stopped,  the  heat  settled  down 
like  a  red  hot  blanket ;  if  we  pushed  on  at  the 
modest  rate  of  twenty  five  miles  an  hour,  the 
air  was  like  a  breath  from  the  fiery  furnace. 

At  last,  after  miles  and  miles  of  such  pictur- 
esque scenery,  we  saw  ahead  of  us — -a  town. 
The  buildings  seemed  to  rise  starkly  out  of 
the  clay  soil,  unrelieved  by  any  touch  of  green. 
I  don't  mean  that  there  was  no  grass,  but  what 
there  was  had  been  burnt  brown. 

We  passed  several  sunbaked  dwellings  from 
which  the  paint  had  flaked  long  since.  I 
suppose  people  lived  in  them  although  there 
were  no  signs  of  life.  I  remember  a  dog 
stretched  out  by  the  roadside  and  I  remember 
wondering  whether  that  dog  was  dead  or  only 
sleeping. 

Such  were  the  outskirts.  Soon  the  houses 
began  to  huddle  together.  They  seemed  to 
cluster  around  the  business  section,  which  was 
a  little  less  deserted.  The  chief  building  had 
once  been  painted  a  bright  yellow — within  the 
last  few  years,  too,  I  think.  Across  the  front 
in  a  sort  of  crazy  quilt  pattern  were  signs, 
"Bugby's  Barber  Shop,"  "Post  Office,"  and— 
largest  of  all,  but  with  a  black  line  painted 
through  it — "Saloon."  Across  from  this  was 
a  desolate  brown  building,  which  called  itself, 
in  brazen  letters,  "Hotel."  After  canvassing 
the  town  in  hopes  of  finding  some  other  place 
to  spend  the  night — for  we  were  too  tired  to 
go  on — we  came  to  the  conclusion  that  there 


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LAS  ELL   LEAVES 


was  nothing  more  promising,  although  people 
were  hospitable  enough. 

We  did  some  pretty  close  figuring  on  just 
how  little  food  could  possibly  make  us  last 
until  we  reached  civilization  once  more. 
There  was  nothing  tempting  about  the  menu. 
In  the  evening,  after  the  heat  had  abated  a 
few  degrees,  we  strolled  about  the  town.  Peo- 
ple were  more  in  evidence,  but  nobody  seemed 
very  ambitious.  Besides  the  buildings  I  have 
mentioned,  there  was  .  a  church,  evidently 
of  no  particular  denomination,  which  adver- 
tised "Everlasting  Punishment"  as  the  subject 
of  its  next  sermon.  Close  by  there  was  a 
cemetery.     That  was  literally  all. 

I  don't  know  how  the  hours  from  six  to 
nine  spent  themselves,  but  somehow  they 
dragged  by.  Then  came  the  worst  trial  of 
all ;  for  after  looking  at  the  beds — we  decided 
to  sleep  in  the  chairs. 

The  next  morning  neither  the  hum  of  the 
bees,  nor  the  pleasant  song  of  the  dairy  maid, 
nor  the  ringing  of  the  church  bells,  nor  any 
all-pervasive  sense  of  well-being  called  upon 
us  to  linger.  We  did  not  linger.  Instead  we 
decided  that  the  next  time  we  felt  any  desire 
for  landscapes,  we  would  appreciate  the  won- 
ders of  nature  in  a  Burton  Holmes  travelogue 
from  the  middle  section  of  an  artificially 
cooled  movie  theatre.  And  the  next  time  we 
went  travelling  it  would  be  in  a  comfortable 
Pullman  car. 

L.  Tenny. 


A  PILLOW  FIGHT 


June  Richards  was  giving  a  house  party. 
This  night  had  been  the  gayest  of  the  whole 
summer,  for  there  had  been  a  dinner  at  the 
Spring  Clubhouse.  What  had  made  it  such 
a  success  was  the  jolly,  happy-go-lucky  crowd 
of  girls  staying  at  June's, — five  nice  girls,  not 
beautiful,  not  even  handsome  you  might  think, 
but  they  were  attractive,  with  shining  eyes, 
alert  and  dancing,  fresh,  young,  clear  and 
keen.    Every  boy  in  the   village   had   crossed 


the  threshold  of  the  Richards'  homestead  in 
the  past  week,  and  many  had  been  more  times, 
it  was  so  hard  to  stay  away.  And  as  has  been 
said  this  particular  night  was  a  crowning 
one;  the  girls  had  had  the  very  best  time  of 
the  whole  week.  Their  escorts  had  left  them 
after  much  laughter  and  merriment  and  the  ■ 
girls  had  gone  upstairs  to  retire. 

The    five    slept   in   three    adjoining    rooms. 
Their    beds    were    large,    old-fashioned    four 
posters.    June  slept  alone,  but  there  were  two 
occupants   in  each   of   the   other   two   rooms. 
After  this  evening  of  fun  they  all  gathered  in 
June's  room,  the  largest  of  all.     They  talked 
the    whole    thing    over    as    girls    usually    do, 
laughing  and  joking  with  each  other,  recount- 
ing certain  things  they  had  scorned,  some  that 
had  distinguished  them,  some  that  were  thor- 
oughly enjoyable,  and  others  that  were  funny. 
Little  fair-haired  Mabel  received  more  banter 
than  was  really  her  share  about  the  tall,  dark 
young  man  who  could  not  keep  his  eyes  away 
from  her.     Edith,  who  was  not  so  popular  as 
the  others,  but  was  still  liked  exceedingly  well, 
grew    indifferent    after    a    while.      Her    head 
nodded  and  drooped.     Marjorie,  always   full 
of   mischief,  and  the  first  to   start   fun,   see- 
ing this  evidence  of  inattention  in  the  sleeper 
grabbed  a  pillow  and  threw  it  at  the  huddled 
figure.     This   shot  was   a   signal    for   an  up- 
rising.   The  drowsy  figure,  which  had  but  just 
been  so  quiet,  sprang  into  the  air,   seized  in 
vengeance   two   pillows   at    hand   and    hurled 
them  with  force  across  the  room.    They  hit  the 
mark  fair  and  square.     Then  what  a  melee ! 
It    was    free    for    all !      Pillows    flew    in    all 
directions,  pictures   rocked,  chairs  fell;  more 
pillows  were  brought   from  the   other   rooms 
and    furnished    yet    more    ammunition.      The 
thick     of     the     battle     now     raged     in     the 
middle  room.    One  pillow,  weak  at  the  corner, 
could  not  stand  the  strain  and  broke.     Pouf ! 
the  feathers  flew  everywhere.    It  did  not  mat- 
ter, nothing  mattered.    Other  pillows  gave  out, 
too,  but  there  was  no  sign  of  any  slackening 
of  the  battle. 

In  the  midst  of  it  all  the  door  was  thrust 


LASELL   LEAVES 


open,  and  Mrs.  Richards'  head  appeared. 
"Girls!"  she  said,  "What  is  all  this?  What's 
going  on?     You  naughty  children!" 

One  of  the  combatants  started  to  say  some- 
thing, but  stuttered  into  silence.  There  were 
several  gulps,  but  no  speech. 

"Go  to  bed  directly,"  chided  Mrs.  Richards, 
"and  in  the  morning  you  must  clean  up  these 
rooms."  Then  she  went  back  to  her  own 
room  smiling.  She  had  tried  to  look  stern, 
but  she  knew  she'd  failed.  She  wanted  those 
girls  to  have  a  good  time,  but  they  must  not 
carry  it  too  far. 

The  girls  were  calmed  and  went  to  bed 
directly  with  very  few  words.  Next  morning 
the  rooms  were  swept,  the  scattered  feathers 
brushed  together,  washed  and  spread  out  on 
papers  in  the  sun  to  dry,  later  to  be  put  back 
into  the  pillows.  This  was  all  done  under  the 
direction  of  Mrs.  Richards. 

That  night  while  they  toasted  marshmallows 
around  the  fire  they  explained  the  origin  of 
the  fight  to  Mrs.  Richards.  It  was  not  to  be 
the  only  night  that  this  escapade  was  to  be 
told  and  laughed  about. 


LEGEND  OF  THE  FIRE  OPALS 


"Where  did  you  get  that  adorable  old  chain 
of  opals,  Dot?"  asked  Marie,  as  Dot  opened 
her  jewel  box  to  take  out  a  ring.  "They 
look  as  if  they  were  on  fire." 

"They  are  called  fire  opals,"  replied  Dot, 
handing  her  the  opals  to  look  at  more  closely, 
"and  there  is  a  long  history  connected  with 
them." 

"Oh,  do  tell  me  the  tale,  perhaps  it  will  be 
a  good  story  for  the  paper,"  cried  Marie,  who 
was  literary  editor  of  the  school  magazine, 
and  always  on  the  lookout  for  new  material. 

"Well,"  began  Dot,  "my  great-grandfather 
was  the  first  owner  of  the  opals.  He  lived 
in  a  small  western  village,  far  from  any  city. 
In  those  days  cities  were  few  and  towns  were 
far  apart.  Indians  were  everywhere,  and 
often  stopped  at  my  great-grandfather's  ranch 
for  food  or  shelter.     The  Indians  called  him 


Long  Knife  because  he  was  always  whittling. 

"One  bleak,  cold  November  evening  an  old 
Indian  knocked  at  the  door  and  asked  if  he 
could  stay  there  all  night.  Without  questions 
Great-grandfather  showed  him  upstairs  into 
one  of  the  best  rooms.  The  next  day  when 
he  went  into  the  room  to  see  how  he  was,  he 
found  the  Indian  very  ill  and  unable  to  jour- 
ney on  his  way.  With  great  devotion  his 
host  nursed  him  until  he  was  well. 

"One  night  when  he  was  trying  to  cheer  the 
poor  old  fellow,  the  Indian  showed  him  these 
old,  old  fire  opals,  set  in  dull  gold.  Long 
years  ago  they  had  belonged,  he  said,  to  an 
Indian  chief,  and  had  been  handed  down  for 
many  generations.  They  were  supposed  to 
keep  away  all  evil  spirits,  make  people  well, 
and  bring  happiness.  They  had  been  made 
by  a  poor  old  Indian,  all  by  hand,  and  given 
to  the  chief  out  of  kindness. 

"Several  mornings  after  the  incident,  my 
great-grandfather  went  into  the  room  to  find 
the  Indian  gone.  On  the  table,  wound  around 
one  of  the  feathers  from  the  Indian's  head 
dress,  was  the  chain  of  fire  opals,  and  they 
have  been  kept  in  the  family  ever  since.  As 
I  am  the  only  child,  mother  gave  them  to  me 
on  my  eighteenth  birthday.  I  always  keep 
them  locked  up  because  of  the  sentiment  con- 
nected with  them  and  because  of  the  fact  thai 
they  are  very  rare." 

"That  certainly  is  interesting.  You  must 
write  that  up  for  the  paper.  Make  it  more 
thrilling,  and  say  something  about  fights,  I  al- 
ways must  have  a  fight  in  a  story  like  that. 
Why  didn't  we  have  an  heirloom  in  our 
family?" 

E.  Russell. 


GOING  HOME  TIME 


What  a  great  hurry  and  bustle  there  is  when 
all  the  girls  are  preparing  to  go  home ! 
Trunks  to  be  packed,  rooms  to  be  cleared,  and 
all  the  last  details  to  be  attended  to.  The  girls 
rush  from  room  to  room,  asking,  "Shall  I  take 
my  voile  or  my  organdie  ?"  and  countless  other 
such  serious  questions..  All  are  counting  the 
hours  until  the  train  starts,  wondering  if  con- 
nections will  be  made  easily  and  exclaiming 
over  the  good  times  they  hope  to  have  while 
at  home. 

But  how  much  more  than  good  times  that 
word,  "home"  suggests  since  we  have  been 
away,  especially  to  those  who  can  get  home 
only  at  vacation  time  !  When'  even  the  build- 
ings of  your  own  town  begin  to  appear,  each 
beams  as  if  it  were  some  kindly  familiar  face, 
there  purposely  to  welcome  you. 

Our  families  and  friends — how  devoted  and 
unchanged  they  still  are !  Let  us  see  to  it  that 
they  find  us  worthy  of  their  faithfulness. 

Yet,  strangely  enough,  when  "going-back- 
to-school  time"  arrives,  we  are  almost  as  glad 
as  we  were  when  "going-home  time"  came ; 
for,  although  we  like  to  see  the  old  friends, 
we  enjoy,  too,  getting  back  to  greet  all  our 
dear  new  ones,  and  to  set  about  our  tasks  of 
finishing  up  the  school  course. 


Marian  Stevens  has  been  elected  the  new 
editor-in-chief  of  the  "Leaves"  because  the 
present  editor  will  probably  be  unable  to  re- 
turn next  year.  We  know  she'll  make  good, 
for  she  is  reliable  and  she  has  ability.  But 
the  rest  of  the  staff  and  the  school  must 
help  her  in  her  difficult  task. 


There  have  been  many  noticeable  traits  in 
the  Class  of  1920.  Not  the  least  striking 
among  these  has  been  their  school  and  class 
spirit.  This  spirit  has  been  fostered  by  their 
officers  and  especially  by  their  president  who 
has  been  a  leader  in  all  school  activities.  As 
a  whole  they  have  been  an  example  to  the 
other  classes  of  what  can  be  accomplished 
through  team  work. 

Ask  any  of  the  new  girls  what  impressed 
her  most  about  the  Class  of  1920,  and  she  will 
immediately  say  their  love  for  Lasell.  Many 
of  the  members  of  the  class  have  been  here 
for  two  or  more  years  and  have  learned  to 
appreciate  the  school,  but  the  more  recent 
members  do  not  seem  to  have  had  any  diffi- 
culty in  acquiring  this  affection. 

The  girls  attending  Lasell  for  the  first  time 
this  year  can  hardly  forget  the  many  kind- 
nesses which  the  Seniors  have  shown  them. 
In  fact  they  have  been  an  inspiration  to  old 
and  new  alike  and  their  places  can  never  be 
filled.  Girls  of  1920,  we  shall  miss  you 
next  year ! 


The  Sophomore  party,  given  by  the  Seniors 
on  May  1,  was  a  great  success.  In  Gardner 
barn,  which  was  brightly  decorated  with  spring 
flowers,  were  two  large  maypoles  around 
which  the  Sophomores  danced.  Refreshments 
were  served  after  an  informal  dance  by  all. 
The  Sophomores  certainly  had  such  a  good 
time  that  it  was  with  regret  they  said  good-by 
to  their  hostesses. 

Through  the  efforts  of  the  Rev.  Brewer 
Eddy  the  Seminary  was  able  to  secure  Rev. 
Charles  Laubach  to  speak  at  Vespers  May  2. 
Mr.  Laubach,  who  has  been  a  missionary  in 
the  Philippine  Islands,  related  many  of  his 
stirring  experiences.  There  is  still  a  tremen- 
dous difference  between  the  ideals  of  the  people 
of  these  islands  and  those  of  most  of  the 
people  living  in  the  United  States.  Schools 
have  been  organized  in  large  numbers  over 
the  Islands  but  education  alone  is  not  suffi- 
cient. Missionaries  bringing  the  religion  of 
Christ  are  desperately  needed. 

At  the  Christian  Endeavor  meeting,  May  7, 
Josephine  Florence  gave  an  interesting  talk 
on  being  honorable  in  friendships,  in  work, 
and  in  play. 

At  four-thirty  o'clock  on  the  afternoon  of 
May  8  a  happy  party  of  Freshmen  with  the 
Juniors  as  guests,  set  out  for  a  picnic  on  the 
river.  At  the  boat-house  canoes  were  in  read- 
iness and  soon  a  gay  and  hungry  group  pulled 


up  on  the  shore  by  the  picnic  grounds  and  en- 
joyed a  satisfying  supper.  In  spite  of  the 
thunder  storm  which  forced  the  party  to 
return  earlier  than  had  been  planned,  the 
Juniors  were  none  the  less  keen  in  their  praise 
and  thanks  to  their  sister  class  for  giving  them 
such  a  delightful  outing. 

On  May  8,  the  Juniors  and  Seniors  renewed 
once  again  the  days  of  their  youth  by  dressing 
in  the  fashions  appropriate  to  infancy  and 
childhood.  The  nature  of  the  entertainment 
was  quite  different  from  that  usually  found  at 
Lasell ;  that  is,  it  was  in  the  form  of  "Movies." 
To  keep  the  children  busy,  lollypops  and  pea- 
nuts were  given  out,  as  well  as  various  kinds 
of  rattles  and  whistles.  All  seemed  to  have  a 
jolly  evening  except  the  village  "cop,"  who 
was  kept  quite  busy  watching  after  the  "kids." 

Sunday,  May  9,  we  were  very  glad  again  to 
welcome  Rev.  Brewer  Eddy,  as  the  speaker 
for  Vesper  Service.  His  subject  was,  "The 
Interchurch  Movement."  He  explained  to  us 
just  what  objects  this  Movement  is  trying  to 
accomplish,  and  why  today  the  world  needs 
the  church  more  than  it  ever  did  before.  Busi- 
ness success  alone  will  not  solve  the  problem 
of  these  important  days  of  reconstruction,  the 
church  must  also  do  its  share.  As  young 
women  we  should  reverence  the  church  for  it 
has  given  more  to  womanhood  than  any  other 
institution — especially    to    American    woman- 


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LASELL   LEAVES 


hood.  In  closing  Mr.  Eddy  told  us  how  we 
Lasell  girls  can  do  our  share  in  this  great  work 
in  our  home  communities. 

Friday  evening,  May  14,  Christian  En- 
deavor was  led  by  Thirza  Abrams,  who  spoke 
on  "The  spirit  of  giving  and  receiving."  We 
should  all  do  our  share  of  giving  in  this  world 
and  do  it  joyfully,  for  do  we  not  receive  ten- 
fold of  that  which  we  give?  We  should  give 
our  love  to  all  for  God  is  love  and  love  is  God. 

On  Friday  evening,  May  14,  the  Seniors 
were  generously  entertained  at  the  home  of 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow.  Miss  Lillian  Brydges, 
vocal  teacher  at  Lasell,  accompanied  by  Miss 
Wagner,  sang  delightfully.  Miss  Maude 
Huntington  Benjamin's  well  selected  readings 
added  greatly  to  the  evening's  enjoyment. 
Forget-me-nots,  the  1920  class,  flower,  were 
used  for  decoration  in  the  dining-room  where 
refreshments  were  served.  At  the  close  all 
gathered  around  the  piano  and  sang  many  of 
the  favorite  school  and  senior  songs. 

At  the  Vesper  Service  on  Sunday,  May  16, 
Mrs.  Mary  Ninde  Gamewell  gave  a  delightful 
talk  to  the  school  about  a  few  of  the  many 
Chinese  girls  of  her  acquaintance.  Mrs. 
Gamewell  has  been  in  China  as  a  missionary 
and  has  a  wonderful  knowledge  and  under- 
standing of  the  girls  of  that  far-away  land. 
Her  stories  were  excellent  illustrations  of  the 
intense  desire  of  the  Chinese  girls  to  become 
educated  and  live  Christian  lives. 

Many  friends  and  schoolmates  attended 
the  song  recital  given  by  Helen  Gould  Balcom 
May  19.  Miss  Balcom 's  charming  selections 
together  with  her  fine  and  well  trained  voice 
made  the  concert  a  delightful  one.  Pleasing 
piano  solos  were  played  by  Miss  Crawford 
who  assisted  in  the  recital.  The  following 
program  was  given  : — 

None  but  the  Lonely  Heart  Tchaikovsky 

To  the   Sunshine  Schumann 

The  Sandman  Schumann 

I'll  Not  Complain  Schumann 

Miss   Balcom 

A.D.   MDCXX  MacDowell 

May   Night  Palmgren 

Mazurka  tie  Concert  Pessard 

Miss    Crawford 


Plaisir  d'amour  Martini 

L'Esclave  Lalo 

Si  mes  Vers  avaient  des  Ailes  Hahn 

Miss    Balcom 

Sonata    (first  movement)  Grieg 

Miss  Crawford 

Where  Blooms  the  Rose  Clayton  Johns 
The  Lawd  is  Smilin'  Through  the  Do'         Carpenter 

I   Bring  you  Heartsease  Branscombe 

April    Rain  Crist 
Miss  Balcom 

Sunday,  May  23,  Mr.  Charles  Woodbury 
gave  his  first  lecture,  or  talk,  as  he  insisted 
upon  calling  it,  in  the'  gymnasium.  He  took  as 
his  subject  one  of  America's  best  loved  authors 
of  children's  stories — Louisa  Alcott.  The  fact 
that  Mr.  Woodbury  was  a  personal  friend  of 
Miss  Alcott  enabled  him  to  make  his  talk 
especially  interesting,  and  surely  everyone 
came  away  feeling  better  acquainted  with  the 
real  Louisa  Alcott  than  ever  before. 

May  22  the  Lasell  Glee  Club  gave  its  annual 
concert.  This  has  always  been  one  of  the  most 
enjoyable  musical  entertainments  of  the  year 
and  assuredly  no  one  attending  the  concert 
Saturday  evening  was  in  the  least  disappointed. 
The  enthusiastic  applause  following  each  se- 
lection called  forth  many  clever  encores.  Per- 
haps the  one  most  worthy  of  separate  mention 
was  the  last  number  on  the  program.  It  was 
a  real  example  of  the  earnest  work  of  the 
Club  and  of  the  wonderful  ability  of  the 
leader,  Katherine  Rice,  who  has  done  so  much 
to  make  the  Glee  Club  the  splendid  organiza- 
tion that  it  is  today.  Lasell  may  also  congratu- 
late herself  upon  having  Mr.  Griffith,  who  has 
this  year  so  ably  directed  both  the  Glee  and 
Mandolin  Clubs.  The  program  was  as  fol- 
lows: 

Olaf  Trygvason  Grieg 

Song  of  the  Volga  Boatman 

Traditional   Russian   Song 
Swing  Along  Cook 

Glee    Club 
Song  of  the  Rhine  Nymphs  Wagner 

Wanderer's    Evening   Song  Rubenstein 

Gleam,  Gleam,  O  Silver  De  Faye 

Glee    Club 
Crescendo 
Popular   Medley 

Mandolin   Club 


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Voice  of  the  Western  Wind  Barnby 

Spring  Song  Farwell 

By  Peaceful  Hearth  Wagner 

"The  Mastersingers  of  Nuremburg" 
June  Rhapsody  Daniel 

Glee    Club 
*In  May.     Dec.  20,  1919  Parker 

Darkey  Lullaby  Dvorak 

America's  Message  Johnstone 

Glee  Club 
*In  Memoriam,       Dr.  Horatio  Parker 

On  May  24  and  25  Mr.  Woodbury  con- 
tinued the  entertaining  account  of  his  experi- 
ences with  Emerson  and  his  circle.  He  gave 
so  vivid  a  description  of  the  personal  ap- 
pearance and  ways  of  Emerson,  Thoreau  and 
Alcott  that  they  will  hereafter  seem  more 
real  and  human.  It  was  a  great  privilege  to 
hear  at  first  hand  anecdotes  and  sayings  char- 
acteristic of  these  gifted  philosophers. 

On  the  evening  of  May  24  the  four  girls  in 
hour  which  followed,  Senora  Orozco  and  the 
work  throughout  their  course  gave  the  play, 
"Uno  de  Leos  Dos  Debe  Casarse." 

The  following  was  the  cast : 

Tia   Maria Helen   Brooks 

Juan    Ruth    Rawlings 

Diego    Helene  Westervelt 

Luisa    Helen  Files 

In  pronunciation  and  in  acting  each  girl  did 
remarkably  well. 

Besides  this  pleasing  play,  there  were  typi- 
cal Spanish  songs  in  which  all  the  classes  in 
the  department  joined.  In  the  pleasant  social 
hour  which  followed,  Senora  Orozco  and  the 
girls  under  her  instruction  received  well-de- 
served congratulations. 

May  28  in  the  gymnasium  Miss  Laffey  gave 
a  recital  of  the  following  difficult  songs.  Mr. 
George  Dunham  was  the  accompanist. 

I.  Aria.     Pleurez    Mes    Yeux  Massenet 

II.  Nina  Pergolesi 

Bergerettes  Weckerlin 

Bergere   Legcre 
Nanette 
Jeune  Fillette 

III.  Rose  Softly  Blooming  Spohr 

My  Heart  is  a  Garden  Smith 

Star  of  Me  Rogers 


IV. 


Greatest  Miracle  of  All 

Guion 

Sweet  Little  Woman  o'   Mine 

Bartlett 

Mother  Dear 

Zucca 

Baby 

Siemonn 

May  29  the  May  Fete  was  given  on  an  at- 
tractive part  of  the  Woodland  Park  grounds. 
Anne  Crane  of  the  Senior  Class  proved  to  be 
the  choice  for  May  Queen ;  while  Florence 
Sheip,  President  of  the  Sophomore  Class,  was 
Maid  of  Honor.  After  they  had  been  led  to 
the  throne  by  Katherine  Rice  and  Eleanor 
Thompson,  the  Senior  Class  officers,  the 
classes,  each  distinctively  costumed,  paid  them 
homage  in  song. 

The  May  Pole  dance  followed,  the  stream- 
ers of  green  and  white  being  wound  by  mem- 
bers of  the  Woodland  Park  School  garbed  in 
peasant  costume  of  the  same  pretty  colors. 
Four  of  the  younger  children  also  stood  in 
attendance  about  the  throne  and  added  to  the 
charm  of  the  picture. 

The  following  interesting  pageant  completed 
the  exercises  of  this  much-talked-of  affair. 

Synopsis  of  the  Dances : 

While  village  folks  are  in  the  woods  gath- 


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ering  Mayflowers,  they  come  across  fairies 
dancing  to  the  Spring.  Immediately  the  vil- 
lagers catch  the  spirit,  and  call  to  their  chil- 
dren to  wind  the  May  Pole.  Then  merry 
hunters  ride  in  from  the  chase  and  ask  some 
of  the  maidens  to  dance  with  them. 

All  hail  with  delight  wood  nymphs  as  they 
steal  forth  and  dance  joyously  their  Spring 
dances.  Again  the  maidens  join  the  villagers 
in  another  folk  dance. 

As  the  merrymakers  are  bringing  their  day 
to  a  close,  gay  butterflies  flutter  past  and  bid 
them  goodby. 

The  Christian  Endeavor  meetings  of  May 
28  and  June  4  were  led  by  the  president, 
Marion  Eaton,  who  helped  us  by  her  talks  on 
favorite  hymns  and  on  loyalty. 

Sunday,  May  30,  the  girls  attended  a  stere- 
opticon  lecture  on  South  Africa  given  in  the 
Congregational  Church  by  Dr.  Bunker.  The 
pictures  were  remarkably  clear  and  the  talk 
was  illuminating,  for  the  speaker  has  given 
many  years  of  service,  to  this  land. 

June  2  the  commencement  concert  was  suc- 
cessfully given  by  pupils  chosen  from  Lasell's 
large  music  department.  There  was  evidence 
of  real  talent  as  well  as  of  painstaking  work 
in  the  way  in  which  the  following  program  was 
carried  out : 

PIANOFORTE.     Romance  Gliere 

Kathryn  Ladd 
VOICE.     If  You  Knew  John  Adams  Loud 

Beulah  McFarland 
PIANOFORTE.    Waltz  in  A-flat  Chopin 

Florence  Greene 
VOICE.     Where  to  Thy  Vision  Gounod 

Eloise  Carey 
PIANOFORTE.     Pastorale  Varie  Mozart 

Genevieve  Shidler 
VOICE.     Lullahye  Cyril   Scott 

Julia   Rankin 
VIOLINS  AND  PIANO.     Serenade  Bordelais 

Goldstein 
Misses   Brooks,   R.  Johnson  and   Wagner 
VOICE.     Slumber  Song  Franz 

Marion  Bodwell 
PIANOFORTE.     Etude  de  Concert  MacDowell 

Margaret   Stewart 

PIANOFORTE.     Reflets  dans  l'eau  Debussy 

Ruth  Hayden 


VOICE.    A  Thought  Like  Music  Brahms 

Sapphic  Ode  Brahms 

Helen  Beede 
ORGAN.     Romanza  Pabst 

Ruth   Smith 
PIANOFORTE.    Whims  Schumann 

Lillian    Grant 
VOICE.     Blackbird  Song  Cyril  Scott 

Alice   Pape 
.  PIANOFORTE.     Rigoletto  Liszt 

Mary  King 
VOICE.     I  Bring  You  Heartsease  Branscombe 

April  Rain  Crist 

Helen  Balcom 
PIANOFORTE  AND  ORGAN.     Pastorale 

Guilmant 

Doris  Crawford  and  Mr.  George  Dunham 

VOICE.     Berceuse  Godard 

Dorothy   Shove 

Violin   Obligato  by   Ruth  Johnson 

PIANOFORTE    QUARTET.     Valse    La    Belle    au 

Bois  Dormant  Tschaikowsky 

Misses  Crawford,   Stewart,  Ladd,  and  King 

Thursday,  June  3,  the  Home  Economics 
Exhibit  was  held  in  Carter  Hall.  As  one  en- 
tered the  room  the  sight  which  met  one's  eyes 
seemed  more  like  a  glimpse  of  a  fine  fashion 
shop  than  the  sewing  room  in  a  girls'  school. 
All  about  the  room  were  stylish  and  exceed- 
ingly pretty  dresses  made  by  the  first  year 
sewing  class.  On  the  table  at.  one  side  was  an 
unusual  variety  of  lovely  hats,  some  made  to 
wear  with  the  gowns  on  exhibit  and  others  for 
all  occasions.  In  the  center  of  the  room  were 
more  tables  holding  exquisitely  embroidered 
articles.  Near  the  entrance  to  the  room  where 
the  cooking  exhibit  was  held  stood  a  table  on 
which  was  a  large  array  of  handsome  baskets, 
trays,  lamps,  articles  made  by  the  basketry 
class. 

In  the  tower-room  there  were  other  gowns 
for  street  and  dress  affairs  and  also  many 
beautifully-wrought  linen  pieces  of  great  value 
in  these  days. 

The  cooking  department  had  on  display  a 
variety  of  delicious  foods,  arranged  in  a  tempt- 
ing and  artistic  way.  There  were  also  ex- 
hibits giving  practical  hints  as  to  food  values. 
In  the  dining-room  all  was  in  readiness  for  an 
appetizing  dinner.  After  spending  several 
minutes  in  this  room  one  felt  decidedly  hungry. 


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Fortunately  ice  cream  was  served  on  the  lawn 
nearby  if  one  wished  it. 

Visitors  at  all  the  exhibits  were  genuinely 
enthusiastic  in  their  praise. 


ART  EXHIBIT 


On  June  3  from  3:30  to  5:00  o'clock  the 
past  year's  work  in  art  was  exhibited  at  the 
studio.  Under  the  combined  instruction  of 
Miss  Mullikin  and  Miss  Little  John  the  studio 
class  has  executed  many  attractive  studies  in 
oil,  water-color,  chalk  and  charcoal.  A  new 
feature  was  the  pleasing  work  of  the  free- 
hand drawing  class,  chiefly  in  conventional  de- 
sign as  applied  to  trays  and  lamp-shades. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  entertained  the  mem- 
bers of  the  class  of  1920,  their  parents  and 
friends  at  a  reception  at  Bragdon  Hall,  Satur- 
day evening,  June  5.  In  the  receiving  line 
were  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  Miss  Potter,  Dr. 
Bragdon,  Katherine  Rice,  the  class  president, 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Towne.  The  reception  was 
very  much  enjoyed,  for  it  offered  an  oppor- 
tunity for  the  girls'  parents  and  friends  to  be- 
come acquainted  with  one  another  and  with 
the  faculty.  Delicious  refreshments  were 
served  in  the  dining-room  which,  as  well  as 
the  parlors,  had  been  prettily  decorated  with 
green  and  white. 


BACCALAUREATE  SUNDAY 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  Dr.  Bragdon  and 
Miss  Potter  led  the  long  procession  of  the 
faculty,  the  former  and  present  students  and 
the  members  of  the  graduating  class,  as  they 
made  their  way  to  the  Congregational  Churcb 
on  the  somewhat  gray  morning  of  Sunday, 
June  6.  The  pastor,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Drew, 
welcomed  the  seminary,  the  parents  and  the 
friends  of  1920  and,  after  the  opening  serv- 
ices, introduced  as  the  speaker  the  Rev. 
Edward  Cummings   of   Boston. 

In  a  clear  and  forceful  style  Mr.  Cummings 
talked  on  "The  Way  of  Life." 


"Life  is  like  a  mirrored  passageway,  at 
every  turn  reflecting  one's  own  image.  'I  went 
to  Rome,'  says  Emerson,  'and  I  found  myself.' 
That  is  what  happens  when  you  go  out  into 
life.  You  find  yourself.  What  kind  of  self 
you  take  with  you  is  therefore  vastly  impor- 
tant. 

"You  will  find  that  the  world  gives  back  a 
good  deal  of  what  you  give  to  it.  There  are 
so  many  things  in  the  world  that  your  atten- 
tion can't  be  given  to  them  all.  You  must 
choose  and  choose  quick.  Each  minute  is  like 
a  room  crowded  with  some  beautiful  and  some 
homely  things.  You  have  sixty  seconds  to  re- 
main in  that  room  and  the  choice  of  looking 
at  the  beautiful  and  worth-while  objects  or 
the  homely,  degrading  ones.  What  you  take 
out  of  that  room  depends  upon  what  you 
looked  at  while  in  there.  What  you  looked 
at  depends  upon  self.  What  you  are  going  to 
look  for  in  other  rooms  depends  on  what  you 
looked  for  in  the  first  room.  The  great  worth 
in  life  depends  on  your  choosing  the  right 
things.  The  following  rules  I  have  found  use- 
ful in  order  to  get  the  best  out  of  life  and  to 
choose  the  right  things.  Get  out  of  bed  on  the 
right  side  every  day  of  life.  Smile  before 
breakfast — a  real,  genuine  smile.  To  quote 
from  a  book  on  auto-suggestion,  'If  you  don't 
feel  the  way  you  ought  to  feel,  act  as  if  you 
did  and  pretty  soon  you  will.'  Pick  quick ;  the 
best  and  most  -inspiring  is  always  found  some- 
where. 

"Members  of  the  graduating  class :  If  you 
want  to  get  the  best  possible  out  of  life,  here  is 
one  more  rule.  Every  day  say  or  do  at  least 
three  of  the  kindest  things  to  the  people  you 
love  best  and  the  people  who  love  you  best. 
We  are  nice  to  our  employer,  because  we  de- 
sire to  retain  our  position.  We  are  nice  to  our 
customer,  so  as  not  to  lose  him,  but  we  often 
forget  to  be  kind  to  those  to  whom  we  should 
show  most  consideration, — the  ones  that  love 
us  the  best.  Therefore,  I  give  you  this  last 
rule  in  addition  to  the  other  three." 

Dr.  W.  C.  Gordon,  formerly  pastor  of  the 
Auburndale   Congregational   Church,   was  the 


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speaker  at  the  Vesper  Service  on  Commence- 
ment Sunday.  His  thoughtful  and  inspiring- 
address  was  on  the  subject,  The  Power  of  Per- 
sonality. Three  of  the  essentials  in  securing 
this  power  are  a  great  ideal,  a  great  purpose 
and  a  great  love.  The  meaning  and  impor- 
tance of  each  of  these  were  brought  home  in 
Dr.  Gordon's  own  clear  and  convincing  way. 
We  were  glad  to  hear  Helen  Balcom  sing 
again  the  selection,  dear  to  all  of  us,  especially 
when  sung  by  her — "I  think  when  I  read  that 
sweet  story  of  old."  A  good  many  of  Dr. 
Gordon's  Auburndale  friends  shared  this  eve- 
ning service. 


CLASS  NIGHT 


Class  night  of  '20,  held  on  June  7,  was 
marked  by  a  spirit  of  fun  and  good  fellowship. 
Promptly  at  the  appointed  hour  the  Seniors 
marched  in,  carrying  their  chain  of  flowers 
on  their  shoulders  and  singing  their  proces- 
sional. After  the  class  .was  seated,  Katherine 
Rice,  the  president,  rose  and  gave  a  cordial 
welcome. 

The  audience  was  also  welcomed  in  song  by 
the  entire  class  at  the  end  of  this  speech.  Then 
Eleanor  Thompson,  class  secretary,  read  the 
"Roll  Call."     It  caused  many  a  laugh. 


ROLL  CALL— 1920 


I  consider  it  a  great  honor  to  call  the  roll 
of  the  class  of  1920,  not  only  an  honor  but  a 
privilege ; .  for  it  will  be  my  pleasure  tonight 
to  extol  the  virtues  and  reveal  the  follies,  more 
or  less,  of  each  member  of  this  august  class. 

FRANCES  VILA  ADAMS,  CASTLE- 
TON,  VERMONT.  Four  years  at  Lasell, 
Fran,  and  with  all  your  efforts  the  scales  tip 
to  the  same  weight.  You  surely  are  the  ex- 
ception to  the  rule.     How  do  you  manage  it? 

DOROTHY  BALCH,  MARSHALL- 
TOWN,  IOWA.  She  has  a  dimple  in  her 
chin,  and  is  very  anxious  to  get  thin.  Cheer 
up,  "Dot,"  you  have  a  long  time  to  live  yet, 
and  good  things  come  slowly. 


HELEN  GOULD  BALCOM,  BUFFALO, 
NEW  YORK.  You  make  us  all  so  envious, 
Helen,  when  we  see  you  very  frequently  on 
dress  parade,  and  when  upon  being  asked 
where  you  are  going,  you  calmly  reply,  "Oh, 
only  to  Buffalo." 

FRANCES  ELAINE  BASS,  BANGOR, 
ME.;  MARJORIE  VIVIAN  HUSSEY, 
AUGUSTA,  ME.;  RUTH  LENORA  DA- 
VIS, SANFORD,  ME.  It  has  been  a  puzzle 
to  the  faculty  whether  they  should  put  in  a 
three-line  wire  at  Gardner  so  these  three 
graces  could  receive  their  telephone  calls  at 
the  same  time. 

SYLVIA  J.  BREGMAN,  CHICAGO, 
ILL. ;  FLORENCE  RUTH  KUHN,  CHAM- 
PAIGN, ILL.  It  is  as  hard  to  imagine  "Flo" 
without  "Slyv"  or  "Slyv"  without  "Flo,"  as 
to  imagine  Auburndale  without  Lasell. 

HELEN  HAVEN  BROOKS,  GARDNER, 
MASS.  The  "Fritz  Kreisler"  of  the  class- 
also  one  of  our  best  students. 

GLADYS  MacCRACKEN  BURNET, 
MADISON,  N.  J.  If  anyone  in  this  com- 
pany wishes  information  about  a  Waterman 
fountain  pen,  just  ask  "Glad" — she  knows. 
Ah — but,  "There's  a  reason." 

DOROTHY  IRENE  BURNHAM,  NEW- 
TONVILLE,  MASS.  Dot's  greatest  am- 
bition is  to  create  Parisienne  models  in  even- 
ing gowns.  We're  all  sure  of  your  success 
but  don't  count  too  much  on  the  patronage  of 
Lasell  students. 

DORIS  ELIZABETH  CAMPBELL, 
SOUTH  BEND,  IND.  Let  us  see,  where 
have  you  been  rooming  this  year,  Doris,  at 
Senior  house  or  at  Berkeley?  We  all  think 
that  you  must  have  fallen  desperately  hard, 
when  you  first  went  to  Berkeley. 

HELEN  ELOISE  CAREY,  HARBOR 
SPRINGS,  MICH.  When  you  are  feeling 
blue,  how  the  clouds  scatter  at  the  sight  of 
Eloise's  sunny  smile.  Are  we  fond  of  her? 
Well  I  guess! 

ANNA  ENONA  CRANE,  TIPPECANOE 
CITY,  OHIO.  Our  Vice  President  and 
Gardner's    famous    musician.     She    plays    the 


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victrola  beautifully;  never  tires  of  putting  on 
new  records,  and  isn't  a  bit  grudging  in  the 
use  of  her  wonderful  gift. 

DORIS  MARGARET  CRAWFORD, 
PARKERSBURG,  W.  VA.  Her  family 
made  a  grave  mistake  when  they  failed  to 
name  her  "Speed."  Now,  honest,  Doris — if 
you  started  now  to  walk  from  here  to  Gard- 
ner, how  long  would  it  take  you  to  arrive 
there?    What's  that  you  say?    Half  an  hour? 

SUE  DAVIDSON,  ATLANTA,  GEOR- 
GIA. Our  little  southern  girl,  whose  highest 
ambition  is  to  find  her  ideal,  then  to  settle 
down  with  him  in  a  cozy  little  home  and  live 
happily  ever  after. 

MARION  FRANCES  EATON, 
YOUNGSTOWN,  N.  Y.  "Pat"  is  a  very 
domestic  girl.  Although  there  is  as  yet  no  out- 
ward sign  to  be  detected,  we  still  fear  for  the 
worst. 

HELEN  LOUISE  FILES,  BRUNS- 
WICK, ME.  Helen  has  had  a  most  embar- 
rassing task  this  year  as  president  of  "Stu- 
dent Council,"  trying  to  keep  the  students  in 
the  straight  and  narrow  path.  It's  hard  work 
when  you  are  fairly  bubbling  over  with  fun 
and  mischief  yourself.  But  you've  done 
mighty  well,  Helen. 

ISABEL  MAUDE  FISH,  MERRIMAC- 
PORT,  MASS.  Bold  is  the  imagination  that 
can  fancy  Isabel  endangering  her  voice  by 
scream  or  shout,  or  to  "Strike  the  flag  staff 
deep — Sir  Knight,"  or  risking  a  sprained 
ankle  by  rapid  transit. 

MARTHA  JOSEPHINE  FLORENCE, 
NEWARK,  N.'J.  Our  star  tennis  player, 
"Joe,"  is  right  there,  when  it  comes  to  ath- 
letics. There  is  nothing  more  to  her  liking 
than  to  snatch  the  balls  from  anyone  who 
happens  to  be  across  the  net  from  her  in 
tennis. 

KATHERINE  LOUISE  FORGIE,  DOR- 
CHESTER, MASS.  We  all  expect  an  invi- 
tation from  "K"  to  visit  her  at  her  home  in 
Pennsylvania  some  day  soon.  That  is — if 
daily  letters  from  that  state  are  a  good  sign. 


LOUISE  FURBUSH,  BRIGHTON, 
MASS.  You  would  have  saved  a  lot  of  car- 
fare and  gasoline  this  year  if  you  had  lived 
at  home  and  been  a  day  student  instead  of  a 
boarder.  We  surely  were  glad  to  see  you 
when  you  came  out  to  see  us  once  in  a  while. 

LILLIAN  GERTRUDE  GRANT,  MAN- 
CHESTER, CONN.  The  teachers  say  that 
"Ulysses"  is  a  fine  student — and  they  like  her 
— We  do  too. 

FREDA  BERTHA  GRIFFIN,  NORTH 
BLOOMFIELD,  CONN.  Freda  met  her 
Waterloo  in  French.,  But  how  can  you  ex- 
pect to  be  a  star  student,  when  on  seating 
yourself  in  class,  you  ask,  "Oh,  what's  the 
lesson  for  to-day?"  And,  of  course,  we  tell 
her  as  usual. 

ALICE  EMMA  GRIMES,  STERLING, 
ILL.  Does  "Al"  have  to  see  a  piece  of  music 
before  she  can  play  it  ?  I  should  say  not ! 
We  haven't  needed  a  victrola  on  first  floor 
Gardner  because  Al  has  been  mighty  liberal 
with  her  playing. 

MARGUERITE  JOSEPHINE  HARDY, 
HUNTINGTON,  MASS.  "Hardy"  may  not 
have  worn  out  her  shoe  leather  but  she  surely 
has  worn  off  the  grass — in  making  a  lone  trail 
from  Carpenter  to  Berkeley.  The  path  that 
led  to  Phipps. 

RUTH  DOUGLAS  HAYDEN,  VENT- 
NOR  CITY,  N.  J.  Ruth  has  dealt  very  gen- 
erously with  her  Senior  Sisters,  as  regards 
her  Buick  runabout.  You're  quite  a  chauffeur 
when  telephone  poles  and  other  trifling  ob- 
stacles see  you  coming  and  obligingly  step  out 
of  your  way. 

FRANCES  HEATH,  CONCORD,  N.  H. 
Poor  "Frankie"  is  all  worn  out  after  a  hard 
year  spent  in  trying  to  extract  dues  from  the 
members  of  this  class — but  she  still  has 
strength  enough  to  root  for  Dartmouth  every 
day  in  the  week. 

MARY  ELIZABETH  HUBBARD,  LOS 
ANGELES,  CAL.  A  girl  of  the  Golden 
West,  who  is  about  to  return  there  to  attend 
Leland  Stanford  University.  Always  going 
to  wear  hats  there,  Mary  Elizabeth? 


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MURIEL  DAVIDSON  JAMES,  SUM- 
MIT, N.  J.  Happy  and  jolly  "Jimrnie,"  and 
as  for  mischief,  can't  you  just  see  the  merry 
twinkle  in  her  eye?  Some  mischievous  fun 
a-brewing  even  now,  I  warrant. 

HELEN  GLADYS  KENISTON,  SACRA- 
MENTO, CAL.  "Glad"  is  one  of  the 
oldest  living  inhabitants  at  Lasell,  and  her  ab- 
sence from  these  halls  will  be  as  noticeable  as 
to  see  people  on  the  street  in  Auburndale. 
.  HELEN  LOUISE  KIRKPATRICK, 
PORTSMOUTH,  N.  H.  "Kirky's"  hardest 
task  this  year  has  been  trying-  to  keep  a  cer- 
tain Junior  all  to  herself.  Well,  luck  surely 
perched  on  your  banner. 

CAROLINE  ALICE  LINDSAY,  YAR- 
MOUTH, ME.  As  graduate  nurse  Caroline 
is  the  explanation  of  1920's  having  been  so 
outrageously  healthy  all  this  year.  Listen  to 
her,  "Come,  dear,  get  up  and  go  to  classes ; 
you're  perfectly  able." 

ROSALIE  BARBARA  LOUIS,  DAN- 
VILLE, ILL.  When  Rosalie  is  real  excited, 
you  must,  listen  very  attentively  in  order  to 
catch  even  a  word,  once  in  a  while.  I  doubt 
if  there  is  a  girl  in  the  country  who  can  talk 
faster,  than  she  when  she  once  gets  started. 
German  compound  words  have  nothing  on 
hers. 

BERNICE  SOPHIE  LYON,  WEST 
HARTFORD,  CONN.  This  is  the  girl  who 
prepares  her  lessons  at  least  two  weeks  in 
advance,  showing  a  regular  express  train  men- 
tality, while  our  minds  are  often  side-tracked. 
BEULAH  CHAPIN  McFARLAND, 
JOHNSON,  VT.  We've  been  curious  all  year, 
Beulah.  Our  minds  are  distracted  about  your 
numerous  trips  to  Boston.  You  must  know 
the  place  from  A  to  Z  by  this  time. 

ELIZABETH    MANVILLE,   ANSONIA, 
CONN.     The  girl  who  loves  new  faces,  new 
friends.     Variety  is  the  spice  of  life  with  her. 
JESSIE         LILLIAN  MELANSON, 

SWAMPSCOTT,  MASS.  The  "well  and 
happy"  of  the  Senior  class.  If  you  want  to 
laugh  your  troubles  away,  just  go  to  Jessie. 


She  has  a  never  failing  cure   for  all  attacks 
of  cloudy  spirits. 

HELEN  BOURKE  O'BRIEN,  EAST 
ORANGE,  N.  J.  Our  Sherlock  Holmes,  who 
can  unearth  more  bits  of  information  from 
unlikely  sources  than  anybody  else  in  the  class. 
Is  a  detective  needed  ?     Call  Helen. 

MILDRED  ADELAIDE  PATTEN, 
ROCKVILLE  CENTER,  N.  Y.  "Pat"  is 
music  mad.  She  believes  in  trying  every  new 
piece  once,  and  if  it  is  not  immediately  fatal, 
once  again.  We  have  all  been  put  in  danger 
of  our  lives  by  her  insistent  playing  of  rag 
time.     Nervous  collapse,  Pat,  is  no  joke. 

CHARLOTTE  KENT  PARKER,  MAL- 
DEN,  MASS.  Poor  Charlotte !  How  she  has 
worried  over  Senior  English  and  various 
other  trifling  details  of  her  life  at  Lasell.  At 
last  her  mind  is  at  rest.  The  height  is  won; 
the  toil  is  over. 

MARGARET  CUDWORTH  PERLEY, 
LOWELL,  MASS.  Just  look  at  "Peg,"  our 
rising  young  scholar,  poet,  artist,  what  not. 
Her  only  fault  is,  that  she  persists  in  scrap- 
ping with  her  spirited  young  sister,  but  of 
course  it's  like  an  April  shower,  soon  gives 
way  to  sunshine. 

LOIS  MERITA  PERRY,  FORT  FAIR- 
FIELD, ME.  Lois  faithfully  watches  the 
mail  box  every  day  for  that  daily  letter.  What 
would  you  ever  do  if  you  didn't  receive  it? 

HELEN  PRINCE,  MADISON,  ME. 
Kings  and  queens  are  out  of  style  now,  but 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  their  scarcity  makes 
things  safer  for  democracy,  1920  holds  loy- 
ally to  its  prince,  who  has  many  truly  royal 
qualities. 

JULIA  ALICE  RANKIN,  WOON- 
SOCKET,  R.  I.  My  stars !  Julia,  you  have 
worked  hard  playing  around  with  various 
Juniors  this  year.  No  wonder  you  had  to  go 
home  once  in  a  while  to  recuperate. 

DORIS  EARP  ROGERS,  LYNN,  MASS. 
When  the  rest  of  us  are  old  and  feeble  and 
go  tottering  around  on  crutches,  we  expect  to 
see  you,  Doris,  skipping  around  like  a  two- 
year-old — playing  pranks  as   usual. 


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KATHERINE  RICE,  DETROIT,  MICH. 
Our  beloved  President,  of  whom  we  are  all 
proud.  Although  "K's"  home  address  is  De- 
troit, her  heart  we  think,  is  firmly  rooted  in 
Indiana.     How  about  that,  "K"  ? 

HELEN  SANBORN,  SPRINGVALE, 
ME.  The  most  excitable  girl  in  the  class. 
Her  excitement  at  the  mere  thought  of  losing 
her  frat  pin  is  sufficient  to  disturb  the  general 
peace  and  quiet  of  the  whole  Senior  class. 

GENEVIEVE  MAURINE  SHIDLER, 
SOUTH  BEND,  IND.  Genevieve,  why  do 
you  persist  in  thinking  that  if  you  starve  your- 
self one  week,  and  banquet  every  day  the  fol- 
lowing week,  that  you  will  become  sylph-like 
in  no  time?  You  can't  do  it  that  way.  We 
recommend  a  steady  diet. 

DOROTHY  SPRAGUE,  WOLLASTON, 
MASS.  "Dot,"  you  have  been  greatly  inter- 
ested in  sewing  this  year.  You're  sure  to  have 
the  latest  style  and  we'll  copy  you — because 
we  know  you  always  want  to  be  near  Wright. 

ELIZABETH  DORIS  STEPHENS, 
RUMFORD,  ME.  Industrious  little  "Betty" 
who  some  day  is  going  to  make  a  dictionary 
all  her  own,  as  she  daily  coins  new  pet  names 
for  everything  and  everybody. 

MARGARET  STEWART,  WEBSTER, 
MASS.  Peg's  highest  ambition  is  to  own  a 
sunshine  biscuit  factory,  that  she  may  have 
all  the  crackers  she  wants  at  all  times  during 
the  day.  There's  not  much  joy  in  life  if  you 
can't  nibble — is  there,  "Peg." 

MAUDE  IRVING  TAIT,  SPRING- 
FIELD, MASS.  Some  day  we  are  going  to 
hear  that  Maude  was  engaged  on  the  6th, 
married  on  the  7th,  and  busily  engaged  keep- 
ing house  on  the  8th.  No  long  engagement 
for  her. 

HELENE  EVELYN  WESTERVELT, 
SOUTH  BEND,  IND.  When  Helene  sud- 
denly takes  a  notion  to  do  a  thing,  it  is  do  or 
die  with  her.  She  is  unusually  proficient  in  the 
taming  of  the  wild  animals — lizards  a  speci- 
alty.    Call  round  and  examine  her  stock. 

ROMA  WEYMOUTH,  NORTH  READ- 
ING, MASS.     Most  folks  tell  us  that  "where 


there's  a  will  there's  a  way,"  but  Roma  has 
her  own  version.  Roma  reads  "Where 
there's  a  Weymouth  there's  always  a  will!" 
And  there  is. 

DORIS  WHITNEY,  LEOMINSTER, 
MASS.  If  any  member  of  this  class  has 
heart  trouble  in  later  years,  I  am  afraid  that 
this  young  lady  will  be  to  blame  for  it.  Her 
greatest  pleasure  is  scaring  people  half  to 
death  in  the  dark.  You  should  have  lived  in 
old  Salem  days,  Doris.  You  are  the  witch  of 
our  class. 

I  am  ELEANOR  THOMPSON,  AME- 
NIA,  N.  Y.  To  call  the  roll  of  nineteen 
twenty  and  have  it  sound  right  good  and 
peppy  was  no  easy  task.  For  the  teachers' 
red  ink  strokes  tabooed  and  cut  my  very  best 
jokes ! 

After  the  roll  call  Gladys  Burnet  recited 
the  class  poem,  which  was  written  by  her. 

' 'CHOICE" 


Young  in  years,  but  strong  in  courage, 
A  group  of  eager  students  stand 
Before  life's  two  diverging  pathways, 
Which  shall  they  choose,  this  earnest  band? 

The  one,  the  pathway  of  self  seeking, 
Offers  them  comfort,  peace,  and  ease ; 
And  those  whose  aim  is  self-indulgence 
Yield  to  its  evil  witcheries. 

The  other  tempts  the  burden  bearers, 
Although  it  toilsome  is  and  long. 
Leads  it  to  the  Heights  of  Vision, 
Making  those  who  tread  it  strong. 

Steep  it  is  at  times,  and  thorny, 
A  way  of  weariness  and  pain ; 
Yet  the  splendor  of  that  summit 
Dwarfs  the  sorrow  in  the  gain. 

'Tis  this  road  of  loving  service 
They  elect  henceforth  to  take, 
Each  fixed  in  her  earnest  purpose 
Life  to  live  for  others'  sake. 


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"Others" — word  of  glorious  meaning  — 
'Twenty  takes  as  her  ideal, 
To  inspire  to  gracious  service, 
Firing  hearts  with  burning  zeal. 

In  the  spirit  of  this  watch-cry, 
Let  her  light  forever  shine 
Bright  along  that  upward  pathway 
Leading  to  the  goal  divine. 

G.  Burnet. 

Next  Doris  Rogers,  Muriel  James  and  Doro- 
thy Balch  amused  everyone  with  the  interest- 
ing prophecy  of  the  class. 

Helen  Files  then  read  the  will,  which  caused 
more  mirth. 


MEMENTOS 


It  is  our  pleasure  tonight  as  the  Senior 
Class  of  Lasell  Seminary  to  air,  advertise  and 
prominently  set  forth  the  hobbies,  peculiarities 
and  follies  of  certain  schoolmates,  especially 
those  of  our  peppy  Junior  Class.  We  wish  to 
leave  to  you,  our  worthy  successors,  the  tasks, 
restrictions  and  trials  which  we  have  endured 
through  the  year;  and,  though  we  love  you 
dearly,  we  find  it  our  duty  to  give  you  a  few 
parting  words  of  admonition  and  reminders  of 
the  things  you  have  left  undone. 

MISS  VIOLA  SULLIVAN,  president  of 
the  Junior  Class,  and  MISS  LILLIAN 
DOANE,  Vice-President  of  the  Junior  Class, 
please  come  forward.  Lillian,  hold  that  well- 
poised  head  of  yours,  which  Mrs.  Martin  has 
held  up  to  us  so  often  as  an  example,  high  and 
correctly  as  you  march  down.  Viola,  accus- 
tomed as  you  have  been  to  wave  your  magic 
wand  over  the  Junior  Class  and  have  them 
respond  to  your  sweet  smile,  you  will  no  doubt 
feel  strangely  out  of  place  as  you  receive  from 
this  dignified  Senior  Class  the  reminder  of 
your  negligence.  By  contriving  and  spying 
you  supplied  yourselves  early  in  December 
with  two  of  our  caps  and  gowns.  No  doubt 
you  had  an  eye  to  the  future  and  caps  and 
gowns  have  greatly  gone  up  in  price.     But  the 


garments  are  not  complete  without  the  collars. 
These  you  failed  to  get.  Like  all  people  who 
do  such  things,  your  courage  and  your  nerve 
forsook  you  and  you  left  behind  these  collars. 
Now  with  them  we  decorate  you  tonight. 

ELSIE  CROWELL  and  EUNICE  PER- 
KINS, our  girls  from  the  Golden  West,  please 
come  forward.  We  have  heard  it  whispered 
that  once  upon  a  time  you  two  fair  maidens 
took  our  banner  from  the  dining-room  where 
it  decorated  the  balcony  rail.  We  wondered 
at  the  time  what  prompted  the  removal  of 
this  article.  Later  we  learned,  but  hush !  it 
is  a  secret — the  weather  had  turned  cold  and 
our  banner  was  serving  as  a  garment.  In 
order  that  next  year  shall  not  necessitate  the 
same  performance,  our  gifts  to  you  are  con- 
ducive to  warmth. 

RUTH  RAWLINGS,  please  step  here! 
Live-wire  Rawlings  is  not  only  fine  in  expres- 
sion but  is  also  a  star  acrobat.  The  Student 
Council  members  have  often  complained  that 
their  day's  work  was  interrupted  by  a  wild- 
eyed  vision  rushing  up  to  them  and  demanding, 
"Is  there  a  Student  Council  meeting?"  After 
a  while  this  spectre  with  her  hair  flying  was 
discovered  to  be  you,  Ruth.  In  order  that  the 
next  year's  members  may  not  be  visited  by  the 
same  apparition,  we  leave  to  you  this  calendar 
on  which  each  meeting  is  marked  as  a  red  let- 
ter day,  hear  it,  a  red  letter  day. 

VIVIAN  VARNEY,  please  come  forward. 
Gardner  was  infested  by  spooks  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  year,  so  the  story  runs.  Things 
jumped  from  the  closets  and  from  under  the 
beds.  Mysterious  belongings  were  left  around 
and  lights  turned  on.  It  usually  happened  dur- 
ing meal  times.  And  one  member  of  the  Ju- 
nior Class  ,was  conspicuously  absent  on  these 
occasions.  We  needn't  keep  it  a  secret  longer, 
need  we,  Vivian,  that  the  absent  one  was  you  ? 
But  how  did  your  appetite  stand  the  strain? 
Let  me  give  you  a  lunch  basket  to  take  with 
you  when  you  next  go  foraging  for  caps  and 
gowns. 

HELEN  CONGER,  our  military  girl,  step 
right  this  way,  please.     Helen  was  complete 


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and  ready  for  the  front  when  peace  was  de- 
clared. Therefore  her  air  and  bearing  of  a 
cadet.  No  one  is  known  to  have  as  many 
dates  with  various  members  of  the  Senior 
Class  as  you,  Helen.  Venture  and  Variety 
are  the  spice  of  life,  and  you  have  had  cour- 
age. A  date-book  for  you  for  your  enticing 
invitations  to  the  Seniors. 

Now,  Seniors,  as  your  names  are  called 
please  rise  to  the  occasion. 

GLADYS  BURNET.  God  gives  us  our 
relatives  but  we  make  our  friends.  You  are 
blest  in  both,  for  no  girl  ever  loved  her  rela- 
tives more  than  you,  Glad.  We  should  judge 
so,  at  least,  by  that  avalanche  of  letters  that 
daily  descends  upon  the  mail  box,  and  the 
sighs  and  groans  after  "lights  out"  bell  when 
you  have  not  had  time  to  answer  them.  Allow 
me  to  present  you  with  a  typewriter. 

DORIS  WHITNEY.  "On  again,  off  again, 
come  again  Whitney."  The  girls  in  Gardner 
have  learned  the  true  meaning  of  this  jingle. 
What  should  we  have  done  without  you  to 
keep  things  moving?  There  is  only  one  thing 
you  lack,  Doris,  a  signal  to  let  us  know  when 
you  are  coming.  We,  therefore,  present  you 
with  a  bell — please  tie  it  around  your  neck. 

GLADYS  KENISTON.  Gladys,  you  are 
so  systematic  in  general  and  to  specify  more 
particularly,  you  are  famed  as  the  prize  trunk- 
packer  of  the  class.  Just  about  this  time  you 
are  going  to  be  very  popular,  for  many  of  us 
will  call  upon  you.  So  that  you  may  forget 
none  of  your  appointments,  keep  this  book 
near  you. 

DOROTHY  BALCH  and  DORIS  CRAW- 
FORD. Watch  your  umbrellas,  for  here  come 
the  girls  who  are  so  afraid  of  spoiling  their 
marcel  wave  that  they  take  French  leave  with 
any  one  they  see.  To  be  sure,  they  return 
it  the  next  day;  but  what  about  our  waves  in 
the  meantime  ?  We  give  this  one  to  you, 
Doris  and  Dot,  so  that  you  may  always  be 
prepared  for  a  rainy  day. 

DORIS  ROGERS,  "JIMMY"  JAMES  and 
"PETE"  SPRAGUE.  The  three  rogues  and 
rascals  of  third  floor;  inseparable  and  jovial, 


the  merry  three  of  Lasell,  a  bunch  of  giggles 
each  for  you. 

The  class  of  1920  is  presenting  a  picture  to 
Lasell,  as  a  fond  remembrance,  leaving  the 
selection  of  this  picture  to  Dr.  Winslow. 

SOPHOMORES,  please  come  forward.  To 
you,  dear  sister  class,  who  have  been  such 
true  and  loyal  friends  throughout  the  past,  we 
wish  to  show  our  gratitude.  From  the  first  we 
have  looked  to  you  for  aid  and  support,  and 
have  not  found  you  wanting.  Will  you  not 
accept  these  gifts,  a  slight  but  genuine  ex- 
pression of  our  appreciation,  and  with  them  the 
wish  that  you  as  Seniors  may  have  as  loyal  a 
sister  class  as  has  '20? 

The  Sophomore  class  was  called  forward 
and  each  was  presented  with  a  gift.  The  Se- 
niors then  sang  to  them.  After  the  Sopho- 
more song,  the  Juniors  had  to  listen  to  songs, 
witty  and  serious.  Then  by  request  the  Se- 
niors sang  their  Cap  and  Gown  Song.  1920's 
farewell  was  beautifully  said  by  Anna  Crane. 


FAREWELL 


So  swiftly  have  these  happy  school  days 
sped  away  that  even  now  we  can  hardly  realize 
that  it  is  Class  Night,  and  that  we,  the  Class 
of  1920,  must  now  say  "Farewell."  Our  hearts 
are  filled  with  sadness;  yet  mingled  with  this 
sadness  there  is,  too,  a  thrill  of  joy — the  joy  of 
having  attained  the  height  once  apparently  far 
beyond  our  reach.  And  as  we  have  trodden 
the  road  of  endeavor  toward  that  height,  al- 
ways in  our  vision  of  the  distant  success  has 
shone  the  gleaming  light  of  this  ardently  de- 
sired night  of  nights.  Long  have  we  looked 
forward  to  it,  for  when  at  last  it  should  come, 
would  it  not  mean  work  completed,  ambition 
realized?  Class  Night  is  a  bridge  over  which 
we  pass,  when,  lo !  the  other  side  being  reached, 
we  see  that  our  school  days  are  finished,  that 
there  lies  before  us  a  new  country,  unknown 
and  unexplored.  But  of  the  journey  in  this 
land  and  of  the  future  we  need  have  no  fear 


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if   only  our  steps  are  guided  by  those  ideals 
and  standards  given  us  by  our  Alma  Mater. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow,  and  Miss  Potter,  our 
dear  preceptress,  to  you  we  owe  much  of  our 
success,  for  with  ever  kindly  guidance  you 
have  led  our  feet  along  right  paths,  and  we 
hope  to  prove  ourselves  such  women  as  shall 
assure  you  that  your  efforts  have  not  been  in 
vain. 

Members  of  our  Faculty,  who  have  so  will- 
ingly helped  us  over  hard  places,  sympathized 
with  us  in  our  troubles,  made  merry  with  us 
in  our  joys,  we  look  to  you  not  only  as  inspir- 
ing teachers,  but  as  warm  and  hearty  friends, 
and  we  wish  to  express  to  you  our  sincerest 
thanks  and  appreciation.  With  regret  we  bid 
you  farewell. 

Sophomores',  our  loyal  little  sister  class,  we 
could  not  have  asked  for  more  staunch  and 
willing  support.  You  have  done  much  to  make 
our  year  a  happy  one,  and  our  farewell  wish 
to  you  is  that  happiness  may  be  yours  all 
through  the  years  to  come. 

Junior  girls,  the  Seniors  of  tomorrow,  for 
you  we  wish  a  Senior  year  as  happy  as  ours 
has  been.  The  friendly  rivalry  of  our  two 
classes  has  been  delightful,  the  spirit  existing, 
all  that  could  be  wished  for,  and  we  thank  you 
as  we  bid  you  .farewell,  dear  schoolmates, 
every  one.  We  know  that  you  will  join  us,  as 
loyal  daughters,  tonight  in  our  pledge  to  the 
future  prosperity  of  Lasell.    Farewell. 

Class  of  1920 — girls,  none  know  so  well  as 
we  the  great  privilege  we  have  had  of  living 
these  happy  years  together  in  such  close  com- 
panionship, and  with  the  passing  of  time  will 
come  an  ever  fuller  appreciation  of  its  true 
value.  As  our  days  stretch  into  years,  mem- 
ories may  become  confused,  incidents  may  fade 
from  our  recollection,  faces  long  unseen  grow 
dim,  but  the  influences  inwrought  into  our  lives 
by  our  intimate  comradeship  can  never  die. 
Nor  need  we  ever  fear  lest  we  prove  aught  but 
true  and  worthy  daughters  of  Lasell  while  we 
make  our  motto  "Others,"  willingly,  ungrudg- 
ingly giving  of  ourselves  in  loving  service. 
And  now,  to  one  and  all,  farewell. 


To  the  music  of  the  recessional  the  Seniors 
marched  to  the  part  of  the  main  building  where 
their  torch  bearers  awaited  them.  Led  by  a 
band,  they  made  a  circuit  of  the  grounds,  stop- 
ping before  Bragdon  Hall  to  which  Eloise 
Carey  gave  a  farewell  speech  and  the  Seniors 
a  farewell  song. 


FAREWELL  TO  BRAGDON  HALL 


Now,  dear  Bragdon,  has  come  the  time  when 
we  must  leave  you ;  and  the  pain  of  the  part- 
ing only  those  can  know  to  whom,  as  to  us, 
you  have  been  a  fostering  mother.  You  have 
been  our  friend,  alike  in  our  work  and  our 
play ;  have  shared  with  us  both  our  successes 
and  our  failures ;  have  praised  us  when  worthy 
of  praise  and  reproved  us  when  reproof  was 
needed.  In  these — yes,  and  in  many  other 
ways,  you  have  affectionately  and  watchfully 
mothered  us  through  these  years,  and  we  owe 
and  gratefully  render  to  you  such  thanks  as 
loving  children  give.  Within  your  walls  we 
have  met  together  as  a  family.  Here  it  was 
we  came  to  know  and  to  love  our  sisters,  as 
we  could  not  elsewhere  have  known  and  loved 
them.  In  all  our  activities,  whether  of  study, 
of  recreation,  or  of  social  intermingling,  you 
have  held  out  your  protecting  arms.  Such  as- 
sociations, such  memories,  so  knit  into  the  very 
web  of  our  lives,  are  not  lightly  to  be  dropped 
or  exchanged  for  others ;  and  it  is  with  regret 
the  deepest,  the  most  sincere,  that  we,  the 
class  of  1920,  now  bid  you  farewell  and  to 
our  farewell  join  the  promise  to  hand  on  to 
others  in  the  coming  years  those  lessons  of 
noble  living  that  you  have  taught  us.  Brag- 
don Hall,  goodby! 

At  Carpenter,  Margaret  Perley  said  fare- 
well in  the  name  of  the  Seniors  and  at  Gard- 
ner, Helene  Westervelt  paid  honor  due.  Once 
again  the  procession  moved  on,  stopping  on 
Bragdon  Campus,  where  the  ceremony  of  the 
flames  was  held. 


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TO  THE  FLAMES 


Dear  friends,  in  the  spirit  of  exultation  and 
freedom,  freedom  from  the  thralls  of  school 
and  faculty,  we  assemble  together  to  burn  to  a 
frizzle  the  torments  which  have  hindered,  hurt 
and  tried  us  during  our  Senior  year. 

Denials  of  privileges,  stumbling  blocks  to 
our  gay  good  times,  disagreeable  tasks,  the 
drudgery  of  routine  and  strenuous  efforts, — 
these  you  will  hear  crackle  in  the  flames  to- 
night. To  you  the  performance  may  not  seem 
brilliant ;  but  we  should  have  your  sympathy 
if  you  knew  the  sweet  satisfaction  and  joy 
in  airing  our  opinions  for  this,  our  opportunity 
to  retaliate. 

Our  chagrin  when  we  failed  to  make   our 
under  classmates  appreciate  our  wisdom  and 
our    superiority ;    our    disappointment    at    not 
being    notified    of    those    telephone    messages 
from  interesting  brothers  and  cousins ; — from 
these  and  innumerable  other  grievances  do  we 
free  ourselves  tonight. 
So  in  all  fun  and  jollity — 
We  57  maidens  of  infinite  variety 
Here  consign  our  pests  to  flames  and  notori- 
ety. 

The  ceremony  of  the  loving  cup  completed 
the  exercises,  made  successful  because  of  the 
fine  training  and  loyal  spirit  of  this  splendid 
class. 


LAST  CHAPEL 


Last  chapel  was  made  impressive  by  Dr. 
Winslow's  explanation  of  the  prizes  and  hon- 
ors awarded  and  by  Dr.  Bragdon's  presence 
and  his  fine  talk  on  The  Unselfish  Life.  After 
prayer  by  Dr.  Bragdon  and  the  singing  of 
Lasell's  favorite  hymns,  there  came  the  fol- 
lowing announcements : 
Winners   in    Swimming   Contest : 

Class  A — Mary  Jackson 

Class  B — Helen   Conger 

Class  C — Mildred   Knight 
Winner   in   Tennis   Tournament : 

Ruth    Rawlings 
Field  Day  Cup : 

Sophomore    Class — 1922 
Florence   Sheip,   President 


Numerals   for  Track : 

(Individuals   winning   5  or  more   points   for   their 

respective  classes) 

Senior — Mildred    Patten,    Doris    Whitney 

•  Junior — Ruth    Rawlings 

Sophomore — Barbara  Strebeigh 

Freshman — Ethel  Barker,   Rosalie   Gruhn 

Special — Blanche    Strebeigh 

L  for  Winning  Crew : 

Doris  Brown  Fannye  Brown 

Florence  Sheip  Helen  Louis 

Helen  Linnehan  Helen  Johnson 

Louise   Jackson  Virginia  Walter 

Barbara   Strebeigh 
L  for  Basket  Ball: 

Blanche  Strebeigh        Doris  Campbell 
Ruth  Rawlings  Lilian  Doane 

Bar  for  Basket  Ball: 

Josephine  Florence       Marjorie  Hussey 
Muriel  James  Mildred  Patten 

Katherine  Rice  Barbara  Strebeigh 

Freda  Griffin  Rosamond  Kent 

Certificates 
Bookkeeping   Course : 

Thirza   Josephine   Abrams 

Mildred  Chandler 

Sue  Davidson 

Lillian  Melina  Fontaine 
Shorthand  and   Typewriting : 

Ruth   Lenora   Davis 

Helen   Louise   Kirkpatrick 

Helen  Ruth  Louis 

Edith  Lucile  Mitchell 

Helen  Sanborn 
Bookkeeping,   Shorthand  and  Typewriting: 

Cora  Henrietta  Benedix 

Marian  Anna  Bliven 

Elizabeth  Manville 
All  Subjects  of  Secretarial  Training  Course : 

Celina   Marie   Belle   Isle 

Helen    Haven   Brooks 

Martha   Josephine   Florence 

Leota  Mae   Fulton 

Louise  Furbush 

Marjorie  Vivian  Hussey 

Florence  Ruth  Kuhn 

Helen   Bourke  O'Brien 

Mildred  Adelaide  Patten 

Margaret   Cudworth   Perley 
Drawing   and    Painting : 

Frances  Elaine  Bass 
Pianoforte   Playing : 

Mary  Irving  King 
Academic  Course  in  Music : 
Major   Subject — Piano: 

Doris  Margaret  Crawford 

Kathryn  Ladd 

Margaret  Stewart 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Major   Subject — Voice 

Helen  Gould  Balcom 

Katherine   Rice 
Seal  for  Post-graduate  work  in  Voice : 

Lillian  Ennis  Laffey  '17 
Certificate   in   Home   Economics : 

Marion  Frances  Eaton 

Beulah  Chapin  McFarland 

Dorothy    Sprague 

Elizabeth  Doris  Stephens 

Doris   Gertrude  Whitney 

Winners  of  Bread  Prizes: 

1st — Florence    Sheip 
2nd — Dorothy  Sprague 

Honorable  mention : 

1st — Gladys  Burnet 
2nd— Bertha  Phelps 

PRIZES  FOR  SCHOLARSHIP,  1919-20 
Awarded    for    the    highest    average    grade    in    all 
subjects  during  the  junior  and  senior  year. 

First  Prize   (Gold  Locket) 

Helen    Files    90% 

Second   Prize    (Silver   Locket) 

Dorothy   Balch    89.3% 

Honorable'  Mention 

Margaret    Perley    88.6% 

Helen   Brooks    88.6% 


HONOR  CREDITS 


No. 

Subjects 

3 


Name 
Helen    Sanborn 

Jessie   Melanson  3 

Marion  Stevens  4 

Helen   Brooks  5 

Dorothy    Burnham  3 

Rosalie    Louis  S 

Emily    Blanchard  3 

Louise  Furbush  5 

Lilliah    Grant  6 

Helen    Files  5 

^largaret   Perley  5 

Ruth  Ordway  4 

Nell    West  S 


Mo. 
Periods 
12 
14 
11 
14 
11 
18 
11 
10 
17 
13 
13 
10 
15 


Per 

Cent 
88.3 
91.0 
91.4 
91.9 
92.5 
92.5 
93.6 
93.6 
94.4 
94.6 
95.1 
96.0 
93.5 


No. 
Credits 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
2 
3 


—LASELL  SWEATERS— 
3    Sweaters    for   300   girls 
"One  girl  out  of  a  hundred !" 
An    "all-around"    Lasell    girl — chosen    from    char- 
acter shown  this  year.     Each  girl  had  chance  to  earn 
one  sweater.     The   requirements  were : 
Good   standing  in   studies. 
Good  standing  in  athletics. 
Good  "mixer." 


Good   influence. 

Democratic — thoughtful. 

Good  winner  and  better  loser. 

No  habit  of  breaking  rules. 

No  dishonorable  acts. 

Good  personal  appearance  and  health. 

Neat   appearance   of   room. 

Every  girl  was  carefully  considered.  The  way  in 
which  each  girl  handled  her  specific  responsibilities 
this  year  has  "told  the  tale." 

WINNERS 

Anna  Crane 
Gladys   Keniston    • 
Margaret   Loomis 
Honorable   mention   to   Dorothy    Shove 


COMMENCEMENT  DAY 


Every  arrangement  had  been  so  carefully 
made  that  Commencement  Day  was  a  joyous 
and  satisfactory  one,  in  spite  of  rather  leaden 
skies.  A  selected  group  of  musicians  played 
two  beautiful  numbers:  one,  the  "Prelude  to 
Act  V  from  King  Manfred,"  by  Reinecke ;  the 
other,  "Demande  et  Response,"  by  Taylor. 
Mr.  George  Dunham  played  the  organ  accom- 
paniments. The  Rev.  Dr.  Chalmers  of  the 
Allen  Boys'  School  of  West  Newton  offered 
prayer.  Then  Dr.  Winslow  introduced  as  the 
speaker  of  the  morning  Clifton  Daggett  Gray, 
Ph.D.,  President  of  Bates  College. 

Dr.  Gray  gave  a  scholarly  and  timely  ad- 
dress based  on  the  paradoxical  words  of  the 
writer  of  the  one  hundred  and  nineteenth 
psalm,  "Thy  statutes  have  been  my  songs  in 
the  days  of  my  pilgrimage." 

Before  the  diplomas  were  given  out,  Dr. 
Winslow  spoke  to  the  class  in  a  friendly  but 
impressive  way.  His  solemn  and  inspiring 
charge,  "Lasell  sends  you  forth  to  represent 
her;  you  bear  her  name,  you  must  protect  her 
honor,"  closed  this,  the  day  of  days,  for  the 
Class  of  1920. 

The  names  of  the  graduates  are : 
Francis  Vila  Adams,  Castleton,  Vermont;  Dorothy 
Henrietta  Balch,  Marshalltown,  Iowa ;  Helen  Gould 
Balcom,  Buffalo,  New  York;  Frances  Elaine  Bass, 
Bangor,  Maine ;  Sylvia  J.  Bregman.  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois; Helen  Haven  Brooks,  Gardner,  Massachusetts; 


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Gladys  MacCracken  Burnet,  Madison,  New  Jersey; 
Dorothy  Irene  Burnham,  Newtonville,  Massachu- 
setts ;  Doris  Elizabeth  Campbell,  South  Bend,  In- 
diana; Helen  Eloise  Carey,  Harbor  Springs,  Michi- 
gan; Anna  Enona  Crane,  Tippecanoe  City,  Ohio; 
Doris  Margaret  Crawford,  Parkersburg,  West  Vir- 
ginia; Sue  Davidson,  Atlanta,  Georgia;  Ruth  Lenora 
Davis,  Sanford,  Maine;  Marion  Frances  Eaton, 
Youngstown,  New  York;  Helen  Louise  Files,  Bruns- 
wick, Maine ;  Isabel  Maude  Fish,  Merrimacport, 
Massachusetts ;  Martha  Josephine  Florence,  Newark, 
New  Jersey;  Katherine  Louise  Forgie,  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts ;  Louise  Furbush,  Brighton,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Lillian  Gertrude  Grant,  Manchester,  Con- 
necticut; Freda  Bertha  Griffin,  North  Bloomfield, 
Connecticut ;  Alice  Emma  Grimes,  Sterling,  Illinois ; 
Marguerite  Josephine  Hardy,  Huntington,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Ruth  Douglas  Hayden,  Ventnor,  New 
Jersey;  Frances  Heath,  Concord,  New  Hampshire; 
Mary  Elizabeth  Hubbard,  Hollywood,  California ; 
Marjorie  Vivian  Hussey,  Augusta,  Maine;  Muriel 
Davidson  James,  Summit,  New  Jersey;  Helen 
Gladys  Keniston,  Sacramento,  California;  Helen 
Louise  Kirkpatrick,  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire ; 
Florence  Ruth  Kuhn,  Champaign,  Illinois ;  Caroline 
Alice  Lindsay,  Yarmouth,  Maine ;  Rosalie  Barbara 
Louis,  Danville,  Illinois ;  Bernice  Sophie  Lyon,  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut;  Beulah  Chapin  McFarland,  John- 
son, Vermont ;  Elizabeth  Manville,  Ansonia,  Con- 
necticut; Jessie  Lillian  Melanson,  Swampscott, 
Massachusetts ;  Helen  Bourke  O'Brien,  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey;  Charlotte  Kent  Parker,  Maiden,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Mildred  Adelaide  Patten,  Rockville  Center, 
L.  I.,  New  York;  Margaret  Cudworth  Perley,  Lowell, 
Massachusetts ;  Lois  Merita  Perry,  Fort  Fairfield, 
Maine ;  Helen  Prince,  Madison,  Maine ;  Julia  Alice 
Rankin,  Woonsocket,  Rhode  Island ;  Katherine  Rice, 
Detroit,  Michigan ;  Doris  Earp  Rogers,  Lynn,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Helen  Sanborn,  Springvale,  Maine ;  Gene- 
vieve Maurine  Shidler,  South  Bend,  Indiana ; 
Dorothy  Sprague,  Wollaston,  Massachusetts ;  Eliza- 
beth Doris  Stephens,  Rumford,  Maine;  Margaret 
Stewart,  Webster,  Massachusetts ;  Maude  Irving 
Tait,  Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  Annie  Eleanor 
Thompson,  Amenia,  New  York;  Helene  Evelyn 
Westervelt,  South  Bend,  Indiana;  Roma  Hazel 
Weymouth,  North  Reading,  Massachusetts ;  Doris 
Gertrude  Whitney,   Leominster,   Massachusetts. 


WOODLAND   PARK  NOTES 


Woodland  Park  girls  took  part  in  the  Swim- 
ming Exhibition  held  on  May  20  at  Lasell  Sem- 
inary. The  girls  swimming  were :  Elizabeth 
Borst,  Catharine  Brown,  Jane  Brown,  Katha- 
rine   Braithwaite,    Charlotte    Garner,    Editha 


Pierce,  Varner  James,  Ines  Cabrera  and  Mar- 
jorie Bancroft. 

On  Thursday  evening,  May  27,  the  music 
pupils  of  Woodland  Park  held  their  final  re- 
cital. The  assembly  room  was  beautifully 
decorated  with  green  foliage  and  great  clus- 
ters of  white  lilacs.  A  sympathetic  audience 
was  composed  of  parents  and  outside  friends, 
besides  many  of  our  Seminary  friends  who 
honor  us  by  their  interest  in  our  endeavors. 
The  following  program  was  rendered.: 
Song — Spring's  Messenger  Schumann 

Woodland   Park   Chorus 
French  Child's  Song  Behr 

Evilda    Cheng 
The  White  Rabbit  Smith 

Barbara  Hansen 
The  Cricket  and  the  Bumble  Bee  Chadwick 

Helen    Miller 
At  Break  of  Day  Rogers 

Catherine  Brown 
Duet — Andante  Porter 

Donald  Winslow — Miss  Bunting 
In  an  Alabama  Cabin  Cadman 

Ada   Hanscom 
Jack  and  the  Bean  Stalk  Maxim 

Elizabeth   Borst 
Will  o'  the  Wisp  Behr 

Charlotte  Garner 
March  Rogers 

Marjorie  Winslow 
Valse  Bluette  Duvernoy 

Ines    Cabrera 

Fluttering  Leaves  Rolling 

Katherine  Braithwaite 

a.  About  Strange  Lands  and  People  Schumann 

b.  Fairy   Polka  Spindler 

Gwendolyn  McDonald 
Minuet  in  G  Beethoven 

Cora  Cornell 
Valsette  Borowski 

Sara  Hurst 
Song— Naples  Italian  Folk  Song 

Woodland   Park  Chorus 
Spanish   Dance  Moskowski 

Bessie   Savage 
Consolation   in   D-fiat  Dennee 

Erna    Schmidt 
March   Mignon  Poldini 

Esther    Curtis 
Impromptu  in  A-flat  Schubert 

Julia    Plunkett 

Arlecchino — for   two  pianos  Nevin 

Esther    Curtis — Erna    Schmidt 

(Continued  on  page  32) 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


RIVER  DAY,  MAY  26 


The  long-looked-for  day  at  last  dawned — a 
day  of  days  with  lots  of  sunshine  and  not 
a  drop  of  rain.  The  four  crews  were  towed 
to  the  course,  where  they  found  the  inevitable 
camera  man  waiting. 

The  banks  of  the  Charles  were  covered 
with  people  who  were  patiently  waiting  until 
2 :  30 — the  time  set  for  the  races  to  start.  The 
usual  course  of  600  yards,  from  Fox  Island 
to  Pulsifer's  Cove,  was  followed.  Mr.  Rob- 
ertson, the  acting  judge  of  the  races,  gave  the 
following  decisions : 

1.  Sophomores  vs.  Mixed,  with  the  "Sophs" 
winning. 

2.  Senior  2nd  vs.  Junior  2nd,  with  the  Se- 
niors pulling  ahead. 

3.  Senior  1st  vs.  Junior  1st,  with  Seniors 
winning. 

4.  The  semi-finals  was  by  the  three  losers 
of  the  first  three  races.  These  were  Mixed, 
Junior  2nd  and  Junior  1st.  The  Junior  1st 
erew  won,  with  the  Junior  2nd  coming  next. 

5.  The  finals  was  entered  by  the  three  win- 
ning crews  of  the  first  three  races.  These 
were  the  Sophomores,  Senior  2nd  and  Senior 


1st.  The  Sophomores  won  this  race  and  thus 
became  the  champions  of  the  day. 

The  fact  that  all  the  races  were  very  close 
made  them  all  very  exciting. 

The  names  of  crews  follow : 


Senior 

Junior 

Sophomore 

First  Crew 

First  Crew 

Capt. 

Capt.  Rice 

Capt. 

Brown,  D 

1.  Keniston 

Bodwell 

1.  Sheip 

2.  Rogers 

1.  Doane 

2.  Linnehan 

3.  Whitney 

2.  West 

3.  Jackson,  L. 

4.  James 

3.  Knight,   M. 

4.  Louis,   H. 

5.  Patten 

4.  Wild 

5.  Brown,  F. 

6.  Crane 

5.  Ely 

6.  Johnson,    H 

7.  Forgie 

6.  Loom  is 

7.  Walter 

8.  Thompson 

7.  Hawks 

8.  Strebeigh, 

8.  Brockett 

Bar. 

Second   Crew 

Second  Crew 

Mixed 

Capt.    Griffin 

Capt.  Jack- 

Capt.   Stre- 

1. Burnham 

son,  M. 

beigh,    Bl. 

2.  Davidson 

1.  Edwards 

1.  Comley 

3.  Kirkpatrick 

2.  Jenks 

2.  Gruhn 

4.  Campbell 

3.  Warner,    G. 

3.  Gifford 

5.  O'Brien 

4.  Carleton 

4.  Staats 

6.  Shidler 

S.  Stevens 

S.  Merchant 

7.  Lyon 

6.  Ladd 

6.  Lindsay 

8.  Florence 

7.  Conger 

7.  Ingraham 

8.  Pape 

8.  Schumaker 

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Especially   Welcome 

Everyone  was  delighted  to  have  back  with 
us  for  this  year's  Commencement  our  two 
former  teachers  and  valued  friends,  Miss 
Dolley,  of  the  department  of  home  economics, 
and  Miss  Rand,  history  and  psychology.  Two 
years  at  Columbia  University  have  won  for 
Miss  Dolley  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Sci- 
ence and  a  diploma  in  Education,  and  Miss 
Rand's  one  year  has  given  her  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  and  a  diploma  in  Education, 
to  which  her  contemplated  second  year,  1920- 
1921,  will  make  further  additions.  Miss 
Dolley  has  accepted  for  next  year  a  position 
in  the  College  for  Women,  Western  Reserve 
University,  department  of  Household  Admin- 
istration, as  teacher  of  the  subject  of  textiles 
and   clothing. 

She  arrived  at  Lasell  on  Thursday,  June  3. 
in  time  for  the  annual  exhibit  of  the  work  of 
the  cooking  classes  and  of  those  of  sewing, 
millinery  and  basketry.  Of  this  exhibit,  which 
all  who  saw  it  will  admit  did  great  credit  to 
both  teachers  and  students,  Miss  Dolley  has 
said  that  she  has  not  seen  its  equal  anywhere 
since  leaving  Lasell.  Miss  Rand  arrived  two 
days  later,  and  both  stayed  over  Commence- 
ment, thus  not  only  giving  us  the  pleasure 
of  extended  opportunity  to  renew  old  acquaint- 
ance and  to  hear  their  experiences  at  Colum- 
bia and  their  impressions  of  the  work  being 
done  there,  but  also  allowing  the  girls  return- 
ing for  the  closing  festivities  the  same  pleasure. 

Among  the  interesting  things  we  heard  from 
them  not  the  least  interesting  was  that,  in 
the  procession  of  two  thousand  candidates  for 
Columbia  degrees,  they  marched  in  company 


with  the  five  distinguished  men  on  whom  hon- 
orary degrees  were  conferred :  Bishop  Brent, 
Mr.  Davidson  of  the  Red  Cross,  General 
Pershing,  Admiral  Sims  and  Mr.  Hoover. 
Good  reason  to  be  proud  on  such  an  occasion. 

Lasell  would  gladly  have  welcomed  back  to 
her  classrooms  these  two  accomplished  teach- 
ers whose  value  she  knew  and  appreciated 
long  before  Columbia  had  opportunity  to  give 
it  recognition ;  but,  since  this  may  not  be,  gives 
each  hearty  godspeed  on  her  own  chosen  way 
and  the  most  cordial  invitation  to  come  again 
whenever  possible  to  see  the  old  school  on  the 
hill. 

June  is  acknowledged  as  the  month  of  roses, 
weddings  and  diplomas.  We  publish  with 
pleasure  the  following  marriages  : 

On  May  eighth  Esther  Powley  Rodie  be- 
came the  bride  of  Mr.  Edmund  Worden  Car- 
penter. 

Helene  Dalton  Maggi,  '18,  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Mr.  Edmund  Crafts  Rechel  on 
the  twenty-sixth  of  May. 

On  June  second  Florence  Adele  Chaffee. 
'18,  and  Mr.  Sydney  Marshall  Higgins  were 
united  in  marriage.  After  September  first 
the}'  will  be  at  home  at  2440  Stevens  Avenue, 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 

The  fifth  of  June  was  the  wedding  day  of 
Florence  Elizabeth  Baker,  when  she  became 
Mrs.  Earl  Wheeler  Carpenter. 

Elizabeth  Stiles  chose  the  fifth  of  June  as 
her  wedding  day,  when  she  became  the  bride 
of  Mr.  Elmer  Harrington  Tilton.  After  the 
first  of  September  they  will  be  at  home  at  201 
Pleasant  Street,  Laconia,  New  Hampshire. 

Florence  Howland  Morris,  '16,  also  se- 
lected the  fifth  of  June  as  her  wedding  day, 
when  she  became  the  bride  of  Mr.  Harold 
Sherman  Smith.  After  the  twentieth  of  June 
they  will  be  at  home  at  21  Ford  Avenue, 
Oneonta,   New   York. 

Colonel  Louis  B.  Goodall  announces  the  mar- 
riage of  his  daughter,  Mildred  Vaughn,  '10,  to 
Mr.  William  Neal  Campbell  on  the  ninth  of 
June.  After  the  second  of  August  they  will 
be  at  home  at  214  Main  Street,  Sanford,  Me. 


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The  ninth  of  June  was  also  the  wedding  day 
of  Sibyl  Webb,  when  she  became  Mrs.  Robert 
Edward  Dougherty. 

Reva  Leah  Berman,  '10,  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Joseph  S.  Batt  on  the  ninth  of 
June.    . 

Edyth  Mildred  Snyder,  '10,  and  Mr.  Walter 
Kastler  Grant  were  married  on  the  twenty- 
second  of  June. 

In  a  note  to  Miss  Potter,  Gertrude  Elaine 
Eaton,  '17,  tells  of  her  engagement  to  Mr. 
Chester  Reid  Underhill  of  Montclair,  New 
Jersey. 

The  engagement  of  Marjorie  B.  Speers  and 
Mr.  Louis  H.  Spinning  has  recently  been  an- 
nounced. 

Our  usual  hearty  greetings  are  extended  to 
'hese  favored  few. 

Veni,  vidi,  vici.  Our  Principal  Emeritus 
returned  in  his  usually  high  spirits  and  pleased 
us  all  with  his  splendid  chapel  talks  and  per- 
sonal interest  in  these  present-day  girls.  With 
Dr.  Bragdon  came  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Belle 
Bragdon  Barlow,  and  the  vacation  was  one 
of  unusual  interest  to  her,  as  it  was  the  re- 
union of  her  class,  1895.  Among  those  pres- 
ent were: 

Grace  Allen   Clarke. 

Belle  Bradgon  Barlow. 

Grace  Emerson  Loud. 

Mabel  Madeleine  Lutes. 

Helen  Morris  Clark. 

Mabel  Sawyer  Rogers. 

Eleanor  Clapp  Drinkwater. 

Sarah  Hayden  Carlton. 

Mrs.  Bragdon  and  Belle's  little  daughter 
will  come  to  Lasell  later. 

Sally  Guething  Herrick  called  on  us  during 
the  last  few  weeks  of  school  and  brought  with 
her  a  splendid  report  of  her  own  doings.  She 
is  now  the  mother  of  a  dear  little  daughter  and 
greatly  enjoys  her  rural  life,  her  husband  being 
an  up-to-date  farmer.  In  a  letter  to  Miss 
Witherbee  after  her  visit,  she  enclosed  one 
from  Mabeth  Shuttleworth  which  we  would 
like  to  print  in  full.  It  was  an  intensely 
interesting  letter,  describing  her  visit  overseas 


to  England  and  the  continent  early  in  this 
year.  Among  other  things  she  writes:  "My 
trip  to  Belgium,  France  and  across  the  bor- 
der into  Germany  was  exceptional  because  we 
stayed  with  Belgian  families  most  of  the  time, 
either  those  who  had  fled  and  returned  to  find 
all  destroyed,  or  those  who  stayed  during  the 
invasion.  Their  stories  were  marvelous  to 
listen  to.  The  most  important  personage  we 
met  was  Senator  Cailleaux,  who  was  sentenced 
to  death  for  being  a  Belgian  spy,  but  whose 
sentence  was  revoked.  While  in  London  we 
saw  the  Prince  twice.  He  is  such  a  favorite 
and  the  people  idolize  him.  I  also  saw  the  King 
and  Queen  of  Spain,  the  Shah  of  Persia,  King 
George  and  Prince  Albert,  and  happened  to  be 
right  in  front  of  10  Downing  Street  when 
Lloyd  George  and  Lord  Curzon  were  entering. 
Christmas  season  in  London  has  special  at- 
tractions. It  is  the  real  old  English  revival  of 
plays  and  chorals.  I  would  not  have  missed  it. 
We  were  invited  to  Yorkshire  at  Christmas 
time  and  for  the  New  Year,  so  again  we  were 
happy.  The  parties  they  have  go  ahead  of 
ours.  We  never  were  so  full  of  good  times 
before.  It  would  take  volumes  to  tell  you  all 
we  did." 

Dear  Caroline  Chandler,  after  all,  was  un- 
able to  join  us  for  Commencement.  In  a 
gracious  note  to  our  Preceptress  she  ex- 
pressed her  disappointment  and  also  her  ap- 
preciation of  the  school.  We  miss  you,  Caro- 
line, and  hope  another  year  health  will  be 
yours  and  you  will  be  ours   for   1920-21. 

Of  course  Miss  Rand  and  Miss  Dolley 
headed  our  list  of  distinguished  Columbia 
graduates  who  were  with  us  this  June,  but 
we  must  not  forget  to  add  the  name  of  Nellie 
Choy  Wong.  In  one  of  the  Boston  dailies  ap- 
peared this  notice :  "Miss  Wong  plans  to 
work  in  her  native  China  and  will  sail  in  the 
fall.  She  has  been  studying  assiduously  and  is 
the  first  oriental  girl  to  earn  and  procure  a 
U.  S.  pharmaceutical  examination.  She  is  to 
be  the  chief  at  the  Church  General  Hospital 
at  Wu  Chang  and  plans  to  start  her  own  col- 
lege of  pharmacy  in  China.    She  will  also  make 


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an  exhaustive  study  of  China's  native  herbs 
and  educate  the  folks  at  home  out  of  world- 
wide popular  fallacies  in  connection  with  medi- 
cines." 

Speaking  of  our  Chinese  students,  the  girls 
will  remember  very  pleasantly  little  Ang  Lee 
who,  since  her  Lasell  days,  has  been  gradu- 
ated at  Chicago  University  and  is  now  taking 
a  post-graduate  course  at  Columbia.  During 
a  recent  visit  of  Mrs.  Mary  Ninde  Gamewell, 
the  author  of  Fresh  Currents  in  Chinese  Life, 
the  interdenominational  mission  study  book 
for  this  year,  she  told  us  that  Ang  Lee  was 
the  first  Yunnan  girl  to  receive  an  education  in 
the  Occident  and  the  first,  as  far  as  is  known, 
to  receive  a  college  degree.  She  certainly  will 
have  a  tremendous  field  if  she  returns,  as  is 
her  plan,  to  uplift  her  native  sisters. 

In  a  personal  letter  to  our  Preceptress, 
Barbara  Jones,  '14,  tells  us  that  she  expects  to 
be  married  in  June.  If  so,  we  certainly  hope 
she  will  find  her  way  to  Lasell  on  her  honey- 
moon. 

Dear  Helen  McNab's  mother  called  on  us 
during  Commencement  week  and  reports  little 
Helen  as  quite  well  again  and  still  very  much 
interested  in  Lasell. 

In  Maria  Riker  Hume's,  '09,  regrets  to  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Winslow  at  Commencement  time 
she  writes :  "My  thoughts  always  drift  back 
to  Lasell  especially  at  this  time.  I  am  going 
to  send  my  subscription  for  the  Leaves,  for  I 
realize  that  without  them  I  am  getting  out  of 
touch  with  Lasell  and  that  is  exactly  what  I 
do  not  want  to  do."  Of  her  little  daughter 
she  adds,  "Our  Martha  will  be  two  years  old 
in  August  and  she  certainly  is  a  live  wire, 
never  still  a  minute,  and  is  getting  now  so 
that  she  can  say  almost  everything."  She 
writes  that  Charlotte  Ryder,  '08,  is  visiting  in 
Philadelphia  and  she  hoped  to  see  her  before 
she  returned  to  Maine.  She  also  adds,  "We 
will  have  some  good  old  Lasell  chats  together. 
Last  fall  my  husband  and  I  had  a  motor  trip 
through  Ohio  and  spent  several  days  with 
Sophie  Mayer,  '08.  Sophie  is  making  quite  a 
success  as  teacher  of  Home  Economics  in  the 


Hamilton  schools  and  she  learned  it  all  at 
Lasell."  Maria  closes  with  cordial  good 
wishes  for  the  school  and   faculty. 

Our  Principal  was  indeed  stirred  and  grati- 
fied to  receive  a  message  from  Mrs.  Wm.  O. 
Brown  (Rose  Hey  wood).  Mrs.  Brown  was 
one  of  the  first  graduates  of  Lasell  in  the 
class  of  1854  and  her  name  is  the  first  on  our 
school  Register  of  Graduates,  according  to  Dr. 
Winslow's  Commencement  address  there  being 
some  over  a  thousand  names  following.  On 
account  of  illness,  this  honored  graduate  was 
unable  to  attend  Commencement.  Our  best 
wishes  and  cordial   greetings  go  to  her. 

Margaret  Vivian  Jones,  '16,  sent  along  with 
her  regrets  at  Commencement  time  a  kind  note 
in  which  she  declares  she  remembers  well  how 
wonderful  it  was  at  Lasell  her  closing  days 
and  sends  sincerest  regards  to  our  Principal 
and  Mrs.  Winslow  and  others  on  the  faculty. 
A  like  friendly  message  was  received  from 
Marian  Beach,  '16,  and  Eleanor  McCarty,  '16, 
who  were  unable  to  join  us  at  this  time. 

Martha  Baker,  '98,  was  near  enough  to  have 
been  neighborly  at  Commencement,  but  some- 
thing unforeseen  must  have  suddenly  detained 
her.  She  greatly  anticipated  the  reunion  and 
we  would  have  been  most  happy  to  welcome 
home  this  dear  graduate. 

A  rather  unique  announcement  came  from 
Ada  Patterson,  '15,  which  included  an  invita- 
tion to  the  thirty-fifth  annual  commencement 
of  Ashland  College  at  Ashland,  Ohio.  At  this 
Commencement  time  our  Ada  was  the  only 
graduate  who  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Music.  Our  sincere  congratulations  are 
extended  to  this  alumna. 

Marie  Gibert,  '03,  writes  from  Cincinnati 
expressing  her  desire  to  return  to  the  old  school 
and  her  constant  loyalty  to  Lasell.  In  her 
letter  she  asks  for  her  grades,  which  looks 
very  much  as  though  she  were  about  to  forge 
ahead  educationally.  Marie,  we  remember  you 
quite  as  distinctly  and  pleasantly  as  you  do 
us,  but  we  would  like  you  a  grain  better  if 
you  came  home  more  often.  Thank  you  for 
your  good  wishes. 


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Professor  Fletcher  Low  of  the  Department 
of  Chemistry  at  Dartmouth  College  sends  a 
message  to  our  Principal  telling  of  the  passing 
away  of  his  mother,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Burnham  Low, 
'87.  Our  hearts  are  always  saddened  when 
members  of  our  dear  Old  Guard  leave  us. 
Our  sincere  sympathy  is  extended  to  Professor 
Low    and   the   bereaved    family. 

Helen  Thirkield,  '11,  got  as  near  Lasell  as 
Cambridge,  but  was  unable  to  get  nearer.  We 
greatly  regret  not  seeing  her,  especially  at 
Commencement  time,  and  hope  she  is  remain- 
ing in  our  neighborhood  long  enough  to  give 
us  the  opportunity  of  welcoming  her  back  to 
her  school  home. 

The  forty-ninth  annual  report  of  the  Wom- 
an's Missionary  Conference  of  North  India 
has  been  received.  In  it  are  several  references 
to  our  Lasell  girls.  Heading  the  list  of  the 
missionaries  and  teachers  of  the  Methodist 
Girls'  School  at  Hardoi  is  the  name  of  our 
Constance  Blackstock,  '09.  The  report  begins 
with  thanksgiving  and' praise  for  the  splendid 
work  accomplished  in  this  school  and  our 
hearts  take  up  the  strain  with  some  pride,  espe- 
cially as  we  notice  Constance's  name  as  the 
leader  of  the  movement.  At  the  Methodist 
School  at  Moradabad  we  find  the  first  name 
on  the  list  Anna  Blackstock,  '06,  as  one  of 
the  two  missionaries  and  Esther  Blackstock, 
a  younger  sister,  also  a  Lasell  girl,  as  the.  first 
assistant.  The  report  which  follows  concern- 
ing the  Normal  School  again  refers  to  the 
service  of  Anna  Blackstock  as  head  missionary 
in  that  department.  The  names  of  these  mis- 
sionary sisters  appear  repeatedly  in  this  inter- 
esting annual  report  and  we  are  both  proud 
and  thankful  for  the  splendid  service  they  are 
rendering  in  their  chosen  mission  field.  Our 
Miss  Packard  was  especially  interested  to  no- 
tice the  name  of  Sukhiya  Singh,  a  native  Bible 
woman,  whom  Miss  Packard  is  supporting  as 
ber  substitute  in  far  away  India.  Also  Caro- 
line Lasell,  who  is  the  Lasell  orphan  at  pres- 
ent supported  by  our  Missionary  Society. 

Among  the  old  girls  here  at  Commencement 
was  Frances  Bragdon,  '05,  who  has  been  ac- 


complishing a  splendid  work  in  the  hospital  at 
Fort  Sheridan.  Here  she  has  been  caring  for 
our  boys  who  have  received  incurable  wounds 
during  the  great  conflict  and  she  had  many  an 
interesting  and  thrilling  story  to  tell  about  her 
experiences  overseas.  We  wish  we  could  have 
kept  her  longer  and  heard  more  of  her  story. 

Edna  Rogers  Carlisle,  '05,  has  not  been  over- 
seas but  she  has  kept  up,  from  her  report,  a 
lively  training  camp  in  her  own  home.  The 
personnel  of  that  camp  consisted  of  a  very 
lively  daughter  and  two  sons,  the  youngest  but 
eight  months  old,  nevertheless  we  gather  that 
he  is  at  present  general  manager  of  his  fond 
mother,  if  not  the  entire  family. 

Julia  Hamilton  Peters,  TO,  came  all  the  way 
from  Montana  to  Lasell's  Commencement,  and 
how  we  did  appreciate  her  coming  and  enjoy 
her  company. 

We  saw  more  of  Helen  Foster,  '16,  and 
Mildred  Ordway,  '16,  than  of  most  of  the  girls, 
for  they  were  in  Bragdon  Hall;  and  what  a 
delight  it  was  to  have  these  loyal  girls  with  us 
and  to  hear  about  the  splendid  work  they  have 
been  doing  in  their  chosen  profession. 

On  the  second  of  May,  Walter  A.  Hixen- 
baugh,  3d,  came  to  bless  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Walter' A.  Hixenbaugh,  Jr.  (Elinor  C. 
Ryan,  '12). 

Edward  Wendell  David,  Jr.,  arrived  on  the 
twenty-third  of  May  in  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edward  W.  David  (Annie  Merrill,  T2). 

From  Dr.  Bragdon  came  these  interesting 
personals : 

Ruth  Cleveland  Bates  and  Mr.  Bates  of 
Denver,  Colorado,  are  making  their  annual 
visit  to  southern  California,  this  time  showing 
their  wisdom  by  making  Pasadena  (Victoria 
Apartments)  headquarters  while  they  enjoy  in 
their  fine  limousine,  which  Mr.  Bates  drives, 
this  wonderful  section.  They  are  better  look- 
ing than  ever,  which  was  really  not  necessary 
to  put  them  on  a  level  with  ordinary  mortals. 

Anna  Marbold  Wernsing  extends  an  urgent 
invitation  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bragdon  to  stop  off 
en  route  to  Boston  at  Greenview,  Illinois,  and 
become   her   guests.     Among   other   items   of 


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interest  in  the  letter  is  the  announcement  that 
she  herself  is  head  of  a  farm  of  some  forty 
acres,  and  seems  quite  anxious  to  have  her 
work  inspected  by  her  former  principal. 

The  following  were  among  the  "old  girls" 
whom  we  were  glad  to  welcome  back  at  Com- 
mencement time : 

Mary  Shaw  Rogers,  '56 
Fannie  Sykes  Davis,  '57 
Caroline  Hills  Leeds,  '61 
Ella  Richardson  Cushing,  '73 
Lucy  E.  Curtis,  '80 
Jessie  J.  MacMillan,  '82 
Seraphine  Mason  Dumas,  '83 
Nellie  Packard  Draper,  '84 
Lillie  Fuller  Merriam,  '85 
Etta  Stafford  Vaughn,  '86 
Mary  Cole  Seaver,  '88 
Helen  White  Fogg,   '88 
Winnie  Ewing  Coffin,  '89 


Grace  Clark  Huntington,   '89 


89 


'95 


Frances   Barbour   Sonntag, 
Maud  Oliver  Harding,  '89 
Nellie  M.  Richards,  '93 
Mabel  Case  Viot,  '94 
Sarah  Hayden  Carleton,  '95 
Eleanor  Clapp  Drinkwater, 
Grace  Allen  Clarke,  '95 
Mabel  Lutes,   '95 
Mabel  Sawyer  Rogers,  '95 
Grace  Loud,  '95 
Helen  Morris  Clark,  '95 
Belle  Bragdon  Barlow,  '95 
Josephine  Chandler  Pierce,  '96 
Bessie  S.  Hayward,  '96 
Nora  Burroughs  Dillingham, 
Lena  Josselyn  Lamson,  '97 
Elizabeth  Allen  Paxton,  '98 
Alice  Jenckes  Wilson,  '99 
Mary  B.  Vance,  '99 
Katharine  White  Wolfe,  '00 
Ethlyn  Barber  Brown,  '01 
Georgia  Duncan  Seavey,  '02 
Carrie  George  Sumner,  '03 
Bertha  Hayden  King,  '03 
Edna  Rogers  Carlisle,  '05 
Frances  Bragdon,  '05 


'97 


Barbara  V.  Bosworth,  '05 
Dorothea  Turner  Moulton,  '06 
Mildred  Peirce  Fuller,   '06 
Edith  Anthony  Carlow,  '06 
Hannah  Proctor  Bonner,  '10 
Julia  Hamilton  Peters,  '10 
Grace  Harvey  Hall,  '11 
Mildred  Westervelt  Warner,  '13 
Irene  Ball  Sill,  '15 
Margrethe  M.  Bauman,  '15 
Elizabeth  H.  Sherman,  '15 
Maude  Freeman  Lombard,  '15 
Lucile  Joscelyn,  '15 
Elizabeth  Beach  Bierer,  '15 
Helen  J.  Foster,  '16 
Orissa  M.  Attwill,  '16 
Pauline  B.  Ray,  '16 
Alma  E.  Sweet,  '16 
Gertrude  Baker  Davis,  '16 
Marion  M.  Griffin,  '16 
Maude  J.  Hayden,  '16 
Adolphia  Garnsey,  '16 
Helen  Gerrett,  '16 
Mildred  Cloake,  '16 
Vera  Willis  Warfield,  '16 
Elizabeth  Richards,  '16 
Marie  Houghton  Gilman,  '16 
Mildred  A.  Ordway,  '16 
Florence  Bell,  '17 
Gertrude  Allen,   '17 
Helen  Saunders,  '17 
Helen  Louis,  '17 
Mildred  Strain,  '17 
Violet    Lewis,    '17 
Barbara  H.  McLellan,  '18 
Edith  Powell  Van  der  Wolk,  '18 
Mildred    Cary,    '18 
Annie  Dimond,  '18 
Leontine  Goodman,   '18 
Irvina  Pomeroy,  '18 
Priscilla  Morris,  '18 
Gertrude  Trafton,  '19 
Priscilla  Alden  Wolfe,  '19 
Marion  Owen,  '19 
Marguerite  Houser,   '19 
Helen  Moss,  '19 
Eleanor  Beaman,  '19 


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Mercie  Nichols,   '19 
Edith  Vance,  '19 
Sarah  Hopkins,  '19 
Mary  Hopkins,  '19 
Helen  Webster,    '19 
Jeannette   MacMurray,   '19 
Sibyl  Weymouth,  '19 
Deborah  Ingraham,  '19 
Virginia  Quarles,  '19 
Dorothy  Hopper,  '19 
Dorothy  Hall,  '19 
Edith  Abbott,  '19 
Miriam  Bell,   '19 
Olive  Chase,  '19 
Mary  Kendall  Locke 
Rosamond  Best 
Agnes  Bullard  Hobart 
Cora  Shackford  Tilton 
Nellie  Briggs  Chandler 
Ruth  Miller  Wolfe 
Jennie  Johnson  Brewster 
Cora  B.  Stone 
Ellen  Stone  Robinsdn 
Mary  Rose  Green 
Blanche  Busell  Hofmann 
Alice  Taylor  Potter 
Helen  Gray  Porter 
Edith  Burke  Wells 
Ruth  Talcott  Britton 
Elizabeth  Wolfe 
Mary  Fiske  Cass 
Fanny  Thomas  Fiske 
Sarah  Buck  Proctor 
La  Verne  Reynolds  Johnson 
Evelyn  M.  Wires 
Bertha  W.  Russell 
Bess  Robinson  Breed 
Jessie  W.  Hayden 
Bessie  Fuller  Perry 
Mary  C.  Merrill 
Leona  Evans 
Carolyn  Kuhn 
Josephine  Fish 
Elizabeth  Greene 
Elizabeth  Schutt 
Carolie  Abrams 
Ruth   Watson 


Ruth  Cody 
Adelyn  Pearce 
Carleen  Brooke 
Dorothy  Osborne 
Florence  Parker 
Ruth  Lippitt 
Madge  Shepard 
Ruth  Wardle 
Ruth  Biermeister 
Elizabeth  Berger 
Beulah   Coward   Bresee 
Dorothy,  Caldwell  Schipper 
Mabelle  F.  Wells 
Gertrude   Bull   Lea 
Mary  Wales  Smith 
Edna  Thurston  Follett 
Louise  Osgood  Hills 
Winnifred  Adams  Hamilton 
Laura  Conger  Buchan 
Dorothy  Raymond 


LASELL  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION 


Everyone  who  was  able  to  get  back  for 
Commencement  surely  felt  that  the  trip  was 
more  than  worth  while.  So  many  girls  from 
quite  a  distance  were  able  to  be  there  and 
added  their  enthusiasm  to  those  who  had  been 
back  more  recently. 

After  a  most  impressive  service  at  the 
church,  the  alumnae  held  a  short  meeting  in  the 
chapel  to  welcome  the  fifty-seven  new  mem- 
bers of  this  year's  class.  Almost  every  year 
had  some  one  back  and  the  classes  who  were 
celebrating  their  fifteenth  and  twentieth  re- 
unions were  well  represented.  The  girls  of 
'06  promised  wonderful  things  if  we  come 
to  their  fifteenth  next  year. 

A  splendid  luncheon  was  served  in  the  din- 
ing-room and  gymnasium  in  two  instalments, 
so  that  those  who  were  at  first  table  had  a 
chance  to  see  the  many  improvements  before 
the  social  gathering  in  the  parlors. 

Dr.  Bragdon,  who  was  the  special  guest, 
surprised  many  by  calling  us  by  our  first 
names.  He  seemed  much  pleased  with  the  cal- 
endar which  our  able  president,  Maude  Simes 
Harding,  '06,  had  prepared  for  him,  by  having 


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a  greeting  from  some  one  of  his  "old  girls"  for 
each  day  of  the  coming  year. 

Every    one    had    a    splendid    time    and    re- 
peatedly expressed   their   appreciation  to   Dr. 
Winslow  of  the  cordial  and  generous  greeting 
which  an  "old  girl"  always  receives  at  Lasell. 
Edna  Thurston  Follett,  Secretary. 


ATHLETICS 


TREASURER'S  REPORT 


Lasell    Alumnae    Association 


1919 
June  1    Bal.     cash     on     hand     in 

Framingham  Bank 

Bal.    cash    on    hand    in    Miami 

Bank    

1920 
To  receipts,  Alumnae  and  Asso- 
ciation Dues  for  year 

To    receipts,    Life   Memberships 
To  receipts,  Interest  from  Banks 


$428.21 
.  205.00 


230.00 

125.00 

90.49 

$1078.70 


1919 

By  payment : 

July  2    For  Letters,  Bragdon  Hall  $55.00 

July    13    To    Miss    Packard,     for 

French  Orphans    11.25 

July  26    To  Dr.  Winslow,  for  La- 
sell  Students    75.00 

Oct.  4    Due  Bills,   Envelopes  and 

Postage  for  year 28.44 

1920 

Feb.  26    Invitations,  Envelopes  and 

Postage,    Mid-winter    reunion  34.20 

Feb.  26    Flowers  for  Miss  Cham- 

berlayne,  guest  of  honor 4.25 

$208.14 

June  1    Bal.  Cash  in  Banks $870.56 

Liberty    Bonds    in    Framingham 

Bank    -. 1,000.00 


Our  field  day  was  held  at  the  Riverside 
Recreation  Grounds.  Through  Miss  Wood- 
ward's efforts,  it  was  a  memorably  pleasant 
affair.  The  events  were  varied  and  interest- 
ing, horseback  riding  being  added  as  a  new 
feature  this  year. 


CHICAGO  LASELL  CLUB 


$1,870.56 
Ella  R.  Cushing,  Treas. 


The  spring  luncheon  of  the  Chicago  Lasell 
Club  was  held  in  the  new  College  Club  rooms 
on  Friday,  May  21st.  The  new  officers  were 
elected  as  follows :  Frances  Bragdon,  '05, 
President ;  Edith  Harbor  Wright,  '05,  Vice- 
President  ;  Lucille  Guertin,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer. 

It  was  voted  to  send  to  Mile.  Le  Royer  for 
her  school  in  France  all  of  the  dues  yet  un- 
paid which  can  be  secured. 

After  the  luncheon  Charlotte  Thearle  Seel- 
cer  sang  two  groups  of  songs  of  her  own  com- 
position, which  were  greatly  enjoyed  by  all 
present. 

Those  present  were : 

Mary  Thielens   Peeples 

Helen  Staples  Elsworth 

Mona  Ryan  Inman 

Bess  Emerine,  '15 

Charlotte  Thearle  Seeker 

Julia  Potter  Schmidt,  '06 

Margaret  Jones,  '11 

Ida   Jones,    '05 

Mabel  Jones,  '14 

Julia  Funkhouser  Mellin 

Alma  Bunch,  '13 

Edith  Harbor  Wright,  '05 

Lestra  Hibbard  Saxon,  '96 

Emily  Brookfield  Hardy 

Isabel  Farr  Gardner 

Lena  Kelly  Stone,  '14 

Mary  Rich,  '17 

Frances  Bragdon,  '05 

Rose  Hoefflin 

Louise  Funkhouser  Williams,  '09 

Edith  McClure  Patterson,  '02 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


Margaret  Gregson  Barker 

Helen  Carter  Johnston,  '07 

Helen  Guertin 

Lucille   Guertin 

Mary  Lombard  Doonan,  '10 

Clara  Roesney  Taylor 

Peggy  Miller 

Lucile  Zeller  Ericson 


WOODLAND  PARK  NOTES 

(Continued  from  page  23) 

We  were  glad  to  provide  the  May  Pole 
dance  on  May  29,  and  so  have  a  part  in  the 
very  beautiful  Lasell  May  Fete  which  was 
on  Woodland  Park  grounds. 

Woodland  Park  held  its  first  Field  Day  on 
June  1st.  The  girls  were  divided  into  two 
sport  teams — called  "The  Greens"  and  "The 
Whites" — the  names  taken  from  the  school 
colors.  Dorothy  Campbell  was  Captain  of 
"The  Whites"  and  Bessie  Savage  Captain  of 
"The  Greens."  The  victories  were  divided  as 
follows : 

The  Greens — Hop,  Skip  and  Jump;  Broad 
Jump  Standing ;  Running  Broad  Jump. 

The  Whites — Relay  Race,  Basketball  Game. 

On  June  2  at  3 :  30  p.m.  Woodland  Park 
Hall  graduated  its  first  class.  The  exercises 
were  held  in "  Lasell  Seminary  gymnasium. 
The  program  followed  the  Project  plan.  The 
class  had  chosen  the  Study  of  the  Pilgrims 
and  marked  out  a  definite  scheme,  helped  by 
their  study  and  historical  trips.  The  members 
of  the  graduating  class  were :  Kathleen  Best, 
Newton ;  Dorothy  Campbell,  North  Scituate ; 
Cora  Cornell,  Derry,  N.  H. ;  Virginia  Hen- 
drie,  Auburndale ;  Catherine  Hodges,  Newton  ; 
Julia  Plunkett,  Washington.  D.  C. ;  Bessie 
Savage,  Cohasset ;  Erna  Schmidt,  Kingston, 
N.  Y. 

The  program  took  the  following  form : 

THE  PILGRIMS  AND  AMERICA 

1620-1920 

Song — O  Land  Our  Fathers  Loved  Chorus 

Greetings  Bessie   Savage 

1.  Who  Were  the  Pilgrims?  Dorothy  Campbell 

2.  A  Refuge  in  Holland  Erna  Schmidt 

Picture — Dutch    Friendliness 


3.  Farewell  to  the  Old  World  Cora  Cornell 

Interpretive  Music,  "A.D.  1620"      MacDowell 

4.  A  New  Home  in  a  New  World      Kathleen  Best 

5.  The  Commercial  Side  of  the  Colony- 

Virginia  Hendrie 
Picture — The  Pilgrim  Settler's  Home 
Song — Speed  Our  Republic  Chorus 

6.  The  Red  Man— Friend,  Not  Foe 

Catherine  Hodges 

7.  Our  Pilgrim  Heritage  Julia  Plunkett 

Picture — We  Pledge  Ourselves  Anew 
Song — Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic     Chorus 
Flag  Salute 

At  4 :  30  the  school  and  guests  returned  to 
Woodland  Park  Hall,  where  an  interesting  ex- 
hibition of  sewing,  cooking,  drawing,  painting 
and  history  notebooks  was  shown  in  the  class 
rooms. 

Punch  was  served  on  the  lawn  by  the  Grad- 
uating Class,  who  received  the  congratulations 
of  their  friends. 

And  now  for  a  jolly  holiday  well  earned ! 


PERSONALS 


Our  heartiest  congratulations  are  extended 
to  Doris  Marie  Lord,  '16,  who  is  graduating 
from  Smith  College  this  month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Hebard  Manness 
(Elizabeth  Linn,  '13)  are  rejoicing  over  the 
birth  of  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Barstow,  on 
May   18th. 

At  the  last  chapel  exercise  Dr.  Winslow 
voiced  the  feelings  of  us  all  in  his  expression 
of  regret  that  Miss  Packard  is  not  to  be  with 
the  school  next  year.  She  has  been  a  faithful 
guide,  philosopher  and  friend  to  students  and 
faculty  alike.  We  are  certain  that  the  inter- 
ests of  Lasell  will  still  hold  first  place  in  her 
heart  and  mind.  We  hope  that  her  plans  for 
the  year  may  be  happily  fulfilled  and  that 
they  may  not  take  her  so  far  away  that  she 
cannot  hold  an  occasional  office-hour  at  Brag- 
don. 


LASELL    LEAVES 


33 


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BAKERS  COCOA. 

is  pure  and  delicious. 
Trade  mark  on  every 

package. 
WALTER  BAKER  &  CO.  ltd. 


ESTABLISHED  I7SO 


DOBCHESTEB,MA3S. 


3L  f.  (TCBimtuir  (to. 

157  ©ronottt  £>ttwt 


Distinctive  smartness,  tempered  by 
good  taste:  Quality  always,  but 
at  the  lowest  possible  price — these 
are  the  characteristics  of  O'Con- 
nor apparel. 

The  dress  sketched  shows  the  unusual 
distinctiveness  which  even  a  serge  dress 
may  possess  if  it  bears  our  name. 

Suits,  dresses,  coats,  blouses,  hats  and 
accessories  for  Lasell  Girls. 


34 


LASELL   LEAVES 


CAPITAL 
$400,000 


SURPLUS 
$400,000 


£fauii0tt  ®ruat  dompang 


We  are  prepared  to  handle  and  cordially 
invite  the  banking  business  of  Auburndale 
people.  Small  as  well  as  large  accounts  re- 
ceive our  careful  attention. 


Other  Offices : 
Newton 
Newtonville 
Newton  Centre 


Auburndale  Office 

393  Auburn  St. 

Hours,  8-2 

Sat.,  8-1 


Telephone,  Richmond  73 1  -732 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL 


F.  M.  SCOBORIA 


C.  D.  BULLERWELL  &  CO. 

WHOLESALE 

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE 

7  New  Faneuil  Hall  Market 
(NORTH  SIDE) 

BOSTON,   MASS. 


Childs,  Sleeper  &  Co. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

BEEF,  POULTRY,   MUTTON, 
LAMB  AND  VEAL 


HOTEL  SUPPLIES 
57  and  58  N.  Market  St. 


Boston 


LEATHER    NOVELTIES 

Practical,  Attractive  and  Not  Expensive 


Hand  Bags 
Jewel  Cases 
Sewing  Sets 
Desk  Sets 
Fitted  Toilet  Cases 
'Overnight  Cases 
Travelling  Clocks 
Travelling  Bags 
Photo  Frames 
and  hundreds  of  other 
articles 


Try  a  pair  of  our  Tan  Cape   Gloves  at  $2.25 
The  best  value  in  Boston 


LONDON  HARNESS  CO. 


60  Franklin  Street  ( 

near  Washington  Street    ( 


BOSTON 


P.  P  ADAMS 

Big  Department  Store 

WALTHAM 

Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century  of  doing 
business  on  the  Square-Deal  Basis 

has  made  this  store  Waltham's 

Best-Known     Shopping 

Place 

Everything  in  Ready-to-Wear  Goods  for 
Women,  Men  and  Children 

LEGAL  STAMPS     FREE  DELIVERY 

133  to    139  Moody  Street 

WALTHAM 


LASELL    LEAVES 


35 


Lamson  &  Hubbard  Co. 

92  Bedford  Street,  Boston 


GREATEST    AMERICAN 

FURRIERS 


BUY  YOUR  FURS  DIRECT 
FROM  THE  MAKERS 


M.  F.  FOLEY  CO. 

Wholesale  Fish  Dealers 

3-5-7-9  Friend  Street 

12-14-16-18  Union  Street 

BOSTON 

Phone  Richmond  281 1 


Bryant  &  Ordway  Co. 

WHOLESALERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF 

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese, 
Poultry  and  General  Produce 

FANEUIL  HALL  MARKET 

BASEMENT  No.  1 

Boston,  Mass. 

Telephone  Richmond  1 729 


BATCHELDER 
&  SNYDER  CO. 

Packers  and  Poultry  Dressers 
Wholesale  Only 

Beef,  Mutton,  Lamb,  Veal, 
Pork,  Hams,  Bacon,  Sau- 
sages, Poultry.  Game,  But- 
ter, Cheese,  Eggs,  Olives, 
Oils,  Fresh,  Salt  and 
Smoked  Fish 

BLACKSTONE,  NORTH, 
NORTH  CENTRE  STS. 

BOSTON 

Offices  and  Stores 
Telephone  Richmond  3000 


Arthur  E.  Dorr  &  Co.  Inc. 

RECEIVERS  AND  DISTRIBUTORS 

BEEF,  POULTRY, 
EGGS,  FISH 

2-12  North  Street 
BOSTON 


HATS 


TRIMMED 

TAILORED 

UNTRIMMED 


TRIMMINGS 
VEILINGS 


FURS  AND  FUR  REPAIRING 


KORNFELD'S 

65-69  SUMMER  STREET 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


36 


LASELL   LEAVES 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


37 


PLASTIC  SHOES 


Styles 

BOOTS 
SHOES 
PUMPS 


To  increasing  numbers  the  words  PLASTIC 
FOOTWEAR  are  synonymous  with  COM- 
FORT. Its  flexibility,  permitting  free  action 
to  the  muscles  of  the  foot,  tends  to  their 
strengthening. 

Modified    Plastics    for    those 
not  wishing   the  full  models 

Thayer  McNeil  Company 
47  Temple  Place         15  West  Street 


Established  1842  Incorporated  1910 

Capital   paid   in   $90,000.00 

Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Commission  Merchants 
Fruit  and  Vegetables 

Nos.  88,   90    and    92,    16    and    17    North    Side 

Faneuil    Hall    Market,    Boston,    Mass. 

H.    F.    RICE.    Pres. 
C.  H.  CUMMING,  Treas.  and  Gen.  Mgr. 

Telephone  1552  Richmond 


Telephone   Richmond    1647,    1648 
ALBERT  P.  SMITH        GILBERT  O.  EATON,  M8r. 

SMITH  BROTHERS 

Butter,    Cheese   and  Eggs 

2    and    4   Faneuil    Hall    Market 
Boston,    Mass. 

Sole     Receivers     of     Randolph     Turnbridge 
Creameries 


FOR  DRESS   AND  SPORT  WEAR 
RIDING  HATS  STRAW  SAILORS 

(tats 

Domestic  and  English  Manufacture 

BURBERRY'S  LONDON  COATS 

POLO   COATS  RAINCOATS 

LEATHER   COATS 


383  WASHINGTON  ST 
BOSTON 


JONES.  McDUFFEE  &  STRATTON  CO. 
CHINA  and  GLASSWARE 


Dinner  Sets  of  all  grades  taken  from  our  large  assortment  of 
Stock  Patterns  enable  the  purchaser  to  select  just  the 
articles  needed  without  being  obliged  to  purchase  the 'pieces 
not  required  at  the  time.  Our  stock  is  especially  complete  in  dinner 
sets  of  the  medium  values.  Wedding  and  Complimentary  Gifts 
of  Cut  Crystal  Glassware. 

JONES,  McDUFFEE   &  STRATTON  CO. 

33  Franklin  St.,  Boston 


INSIST  UPON  HAVING 

Carpenter-Morton 

Paints  and  Varnishes 

For  over  79  years  they  have  been  giving  complete  satisfaction  to  the 
most  particular  trade.  We  sell  a  Paint  and  Varnish  for  every 
purpose  Inside  and  Outside  the  Home.  Ask  us  for  Color  Cards  and 
Literature  covering  your  particular  needs  in  the  Paint  and  Varnish 
Line.  An  expert  Paint  Man's  advice  is  always  free  for  the  asking. 
Carpenter- Morton  Paints  and  Varnishes  are  sold  by  reliable  dealers 
in  New  England. 


CARPENTER-MORTON  CO. 

Established   1840 


Store  77-79  Sudbury  St. 


Boston,  Mass. 


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LASELL    LEAVES 


NEW 


PLAID 


SKIRTS 


$25.00 


Box  plaited  skirts,  having  a  grace  of  line, 
are  shown  in  russet  and  navy,  with  broad 
strapped  belt,  smartly  buttoned. 

OTHERS  AT  PRICES  FROM 

$15.00  to  $35.00 
C.  F.  HOVEY  COMPANY 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


L  P.  Hollander  Co. 

MISSES'  AND   YOUNG   LADIES' 

SUITS,    COATS    AND    DRESSES 

FOR  EVERY  OCCASION 


FEATURING  PRACTICAL  GAR- 
MENTS   FOR    SCHOOL    WEAR 
AT  POPULAR  PRICES 


School    Trade    Especially    Solicited 


202-216  Boylston  St., 


Boston 


T.    E.    MOSELEY   CO. 


WALKING    BOOTS 

Brown  or  Black  Calf,  Perforated  Wing  Tips, 
Military  Heels 

ILLUSTRATED  FOLDER  ON  REQUEST 

160  Tremont  Street      -      -      Boston 


KODAKS 


FILMS 


HIGH  GRADE 
Developing,  Printing  and  Enlarging 


Page  &  Shaw's       Whitman's       Apollo 

CHOCOLATES 


Sty?  liwleuarb  ftyarmarg 

2090  Commonwealth  Avenue 
AUBURNDALE 


LASELL    LEAVES 


39 


1  he  Boston  Music  Co. 


(G.   Schirmer) 


The 

most 

convenient 

Music  store 

in 

town 


26  West  street 


Tel.  :  Beach   1561 


ax  Brothers 

TZop/srs 

44  TEMPLE  PLACE 
BOSTON 

OPP.  TEMPLE  PLACE  SUBWAY  STATION 

Mail  and  Telephone  Orders 
Promptly  Filled 

Telephones  Beach  6431,  6432 


THE  GENUINE 

Lombard  Middy  Blouses 

ARE 

APPROVED  BY  ALL 
COLLEGE  GIRLS 

Send  for  Illustrated  Booklet 

HENRY  S.  LOMBARD 
22  to  26  Merchants  Row         Boston 


FURNITURE 

WHOLESALE 


PAGE  &  BAKER  CO. 
88-102  Fulton  St.,  Boston 

Telephone  Rich.  820 


PURE   PRESERVES 

Made  by  ourselves  from  Home  Receipts 

Packed  in   Stone  Jars 

A.  T.  BRIDGES   CO.,  Inc. 

78  Portland   St.,   Boston 

Tel.    577    Haymarket 
Send   for    price    list   of  over   60    kinds 


LADIES'  AND  MEN'S  FURNISHINGS 
FANCY  GOODS  AND  NOTIONS 

C.  A.  DONOVAN 

DRY  GOODS 

345  Auburn  St.  Auburndale 


ELLIOT  W.  KEYES 
pjarmartai 

Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE,  MASS. 


40 


LASELL    LEAVES 


Mandolins, 
Guitars,  Banjos 

And     Kindred     Instruments 

For  those  who  play  and  who  appreciate  refined 
tone  quality  and  scientific  adjustment. 

Banjos     -        -        $10.00  to    $65.00 
Guitars   -        -  8.00  to       75.00 

Mandolins      -  7.00  to       50.00 

Ditson  Empire  Mandolins 
Ditson  Empire  Guitars 
Ditson  Special  Cole  Banjos 

Martin  Guitars   and   Mandolins 
Tenor  Banjos,  Banjo-Mandolins 

Ukuleles      -        -        $5.00  to  $15.00 
Hawaiian  Steel  Guitars 

Repairing  a  Specialty 

OLIVER  DITSON  COMPANY 

178-179  TREMONT  STREET 
BOSTON,    MASS. 


Auburndale  Shoe  Store 

P.  BERMAN,  Proprietor 

GUARANTEED  RUBBERS 

299  Auburn  Street  Auburndale 


LARRY  ROSS 
Fine     Shoe     Repairing 

RUBBERS 

2088  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Auburndale 


Tel.  Newton  West  965-J 


Next  to  Post  Office 


D.    WIGOD 
Ladies'    Tailoring 

Cleaning,  Pressing,  Repairing,  Specialty  of  Fancy  Dresses 

303  AUBURN  ST.,  AUBURNDALE 


F.  Capodanno   &   Sons 
AUBURNDALE    FRUIT    MARKET 

Wholesale  and  Retail 

Fine  Assorted  Confectionery 
Cigars,  Tobacco 

325-327  Auburn  St.,  Taylor  Block 
AUBURNDALE 

Telephone,  Newton  West  1275 


Established  1882  Incorporated  1904 

GEORGE  P.  RAYMOND  CO. 

Costumers 

6  BOYLSTON  PLACE,        BOSTON,    MASS. 
College    Dramatic   Work   a   Specialty 

Telephone  Beach    1 45 


William    M.   Flanders   Co. 

Wholesale    Grocers 


48  &  49  India  Street 


Boston 


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'ALTHAM,  MASS. 

OCT.  1953